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NEWMAN – Dan Waggoner is on a mission.

An archer and bowyer, Waggon-er is donating his time, with help from family members, to operate a free, indoor archery range Saturday afternoons at the Newman Com-munity Center. Shooting started Jan. 28 and continues through March 18.

Waggoner explained there are two motivations involved with the range. First is to provide youth with something positive to do and also promote a hobby he loves.

“When I was growing up there was a lot more in town to do,” Wag-goner said. “Now if kids don’t do sports, they don’t have anything to do.”

Archery, Waggoner said, is a life-time pursuit.

“It is something you can start

with at any age and use the rest of your life,” he said. “I’ve been shoot-ing for 59 years.”

He admits it was a bit of a sell to convince the city council for per-mission to do the indoor program but got permission after showing

them the Archery in School pro-gram, which has 17 million partici-pants worldwide, has never had an accident and the use of Oriented Strand Board as a backdrop behind the targets eliminates any damage

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The Edgar County Emergency Telephone System Board (ETSB) and Enerstar have a stopgap mea-sure in place to continue emergency radio dispatch.

It was announced in December the ETSB resolved to move 911 an-tennas and other communication equipment from Enerstar’s Clear Talk tower, south of Paris. The plan was to put the radio equipment on

the tower at the jail until such time as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a new license allowing the equipment to go on the tower at the Paris radio station at a height of 300 feet.

Things have not worked out as envisioned.

911 coordinator Nanette Crippes said the tower at the jail proved in-adequate for consistent paging calls to the Oliver and Grandview Sta-tions of the Paris Community Fire

Protection District, and some fire-fighters living south of Paris did not receive pager signals. As a result, the older equipment on the Clear Talk Tower was pressed back into use, although Enerstar had asked for its removal.

Crippes discussed the issue during the ETSB meeting Tuesday afternoon. She said talks between her, ETSB member Merle Clark and Enerstar CEO Mike Clark resulted


CHRISMAN – An option to pipe water from the former VX military plant near Newport, Ind., to Chris-

man has encoun-tered a major finan-cial obstacle.

Eric Smith of HWC Engineering met with the Chris-man City Council Monday evening to provide a progress

update, and the news was not good. When the idea of selling water from the deep wells to area communities was first proposed by the Vermil-lion Rise Industrial Park that now controls the previous military site, it was understood Vermillion Rise planned to build a pipeline west to the Illinois-Indiana state line, with the city of Chrisman picking up the construction responsibility at that point.

Smith said Vermillion Rise offi-cials now say it will be at least 2019 until the finances are in place to build the pipeline.

“I’d like to get water from them, but we can’t wait forever,” said May-or Dan Owen.

The mayor noted Chrisman has an adequate water supply for now, but the city needs to plan decades out regarding a reliable water source. He added another possibility is ex-tending a pipeline north and buying water from Paris.

“I’m not sure it’s a good commit-ment,” said Commissioner Rodney Wolfe

According to Wolfe, a water pipe-line from the state line to Chrisman will cost at least $1 million, and he stated that is too expensive for the city to undertake without a major grant.

He pointed to an additional ex-pense of building a small facility on the Illinois side of the state line to chlorinate and add fluoride to the water. Such a facility requires a city worker driving to the location daily for an equipment check.

Owen asked Smith to arrange a meeting with Vermillion Rise exec-utives for additional discussion.

In another matter, Owen dis-cussed the video gaming tax the city now receives from the state. The money is generated from slot machines at the Town and Country Restaurant and Bar located at the state Route 1 and U.S. 36 intersec-tion.

“We can use that money any way we want,” said Owen, suggesting the creation of special fund to demolish dilapidated buildings, adding the town has several such properties on a list.

The council will revisit this is-sue at the next meeting when it is expected commissioners will pass a motion adopting Owen’s sugges-tion.

Action items for the meeting all pertained to the water department.

The purchase of a $4,432 post chlorination system was approved.


Voters in Young America 1, Young America 2 and Shiloh precincts could have a new polling place as ear-ly as the April Consolidated Election.

For several years, the agriculture workshop at Shiloh High School has served as the combined polling place for the precincts, and it is a point of contention between school adminis-trators and county officials.

“A couple of months ago I got let-ters requesting the polling place be moved out of the school and suggest-ing the Hume Community Building as an alternative,” said August Griffin, Edgar County Clerk and Recorder.

Griffin discussed the matter Mon-day morning during the county

board study session. He expressed sympathy for school administrators who claim using the school as a poll-ing place ties up facilities, disrupts the school day and creates a legal dilemma since registered sex offend-ers are not supposed to be on school property, but they cannot be denied the right to vote.

It is not a simple matter for the clerk to select another building. Grif-fin explained the statute says schools shall be used as the polling places, although there is an option to use other public buildings.

He appreciated the Shiloh admin-istration suggesting a viable alter-

native rather than simply asking to move the polling place.

“When I get a formal request with a solution, I will look at it,” Griffin said.

His next step is inspecting the Hume Community Center to make sure it conforms to the Ameri-cans with Disabilities Act and has adequate room to accommodate multi-precinct voting. If Griffin is satisfied the new location is suitable, he will seek authorization from the county board to make the switch.

According to Griffin, it is possible the change may be completed in time to hold the April Consolidated Elec-tion in the community center. Noti-fication of change to voters in the af-fected area will be through the mail.

“I will send letters to all of the reg-istered voters in the area along with new voter identification cards,” he said.

Edgar County Sheriff Jeff Wood reported a need to make a modifi-cation inside the jail. He said in the last few weeks some of the drug re-lated arrests have involved individ-uals with mental illness who would be better served at a mental health facility.

“We are not setup to handle them, but no one else wants to take our problem,” said Wood.

His next step is rerouting some funds to create a cell where disturbed individuals can yell and act out with-in a space where they cannot hurt

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OWEN

Dan Waggoner, orange shirt,

helps first time archer Krystin

Michael with the complexities of

holding the bow, keeping the arrow

nocked and on the rest, pulling

the string taught and aiming, all in one motion. Wag-goner and family

members are holding indoor archery clinics at the Newman

Community Cen-ter Saturday af-

ternoons through March 18.

Photos by Gary Henry/The Prairie

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Straight as an arrow

All ages and skill levels are seen at the archery clinics underway now at the Newman Community Center. Sessions are free and people may bring their own equipment or use bowsand arrows provided by the Waggoner family.

With about four years experience, Emery Keys exhibits a practiced style as he pulls and holds his compound bow before taking the shot.

FREE ARCHERY RANGE GIVES YOUTH MORE OPTIONS

ONGOING

PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITPoints of View – Along the Way is an exhibit of images by Ed Gillum from Jan. 13 to Feb. 10 at the Bicentennial Art Center and Museum, 132 S. Central Avenue, Paris. The art center is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. More information is available by calling 217-466-8130.

TODAY

PRESCHOOL SCREENINGCrestwood Community Unit School District #4 and H.E.L.P. (Helping Educate Little People) is offering a free, preschool screening Feb. 8 and Feb. 9 at Crestwood Elementary School. The screening is for children between the ages of birth and five years and checks development in concepts, motor skills, speech, language, vision and hearing. Ap-proximately one hour is required to complete the screening. Call Jamie Schneider, 465-5391, to make an appointment.

DINE WITH A DOCDine with a Doc is 11 a.m.–1 p.m. at the Sutton Senior Center, 256 W. Court. Call 465-8143 for more information.

CHRISMAN FFA BLOOD DRAWChrisman High School FFA is hosting a blood drive 1:30-5:30 p.m. in the Chrisman-Scot-tland Junior High School gym. Those who donate will receive a T-shirt. Appointments to donate

may be made at [email protected] or calling the school at 217-269-2823. Appointments are not re-quired and walk-in donors are welcome.

PEO SISTERHOOD TO MEETThe next meeting of the Chapter KP of the P.E.O. Sisterhood is 1:30 p.m. at the home of Beth Ruff, who will serve as hostess. Assistant hostess is Mary Ann Majors. The program is by Nancy Hansel. Members who cannot attend are asked to send regrets

to the hostess.

THURSDAY

HEALTH SCREENINGSLeighsa Cornwell, community health and disease management coordinator at Paris Community Hospital/Family Medical Center, will provide blood pressure, blood sugar and lipid panel (HDL, LDL, and triglycerides) screenings from 7-9 a.m. For blood sugar tests, patients are asked to fast eight hours prior to the screening. The cost for all three screenings is

$25. To schedule an appointment, call 217-465-2606, for toll free 1-866-465-4141, Ext. 228.

VFW AUXILIARY DINNERThe weekly VFW Auxiliary dinner is from 5-7 p.m. at the post home on West Court Street. The menu is turkey tetrazzini, garlic toast and slaw or salad. The cost is $4. Drinks are 50 cents and dessert is $1. Proceeds support the work of the VFW.

LIBRARY COLORING NIGHTParis Public Library is hosting an adult coloring night 6-7:30 p.m. The library will supply colored pencils and coloring pages but participants are welcome to bring their own supplies.

RED OAK INN EUCHRE NIGHTRed Oak Inn is sponsoring a eu-chre night 6:30 to 9 p.m. Dessert is served as part of the evening.

FRIDAY

POSITIVE AGING PROGRAMA free, interactive webinar about positive aging is 10 a.m. at the Edgar County Extension Office, 210 W. Washington, Paris. Presented by The Edgar County Association for Home and Com-munity Education (HCE) webinar presenters Cheri Burcham and Cara Allen, University of Illinois Extension Family Life Educa-tors, discuss research related to positive aging as well as a discussion on ageism and how negative stereotypes of aging can contribute to prejudices and even discrimination. Phone registration at 217-465-8585 is requested.

SATURDAY

VFW MONTHLY STEAK DINNERThe Paris VFW will host its monthly steak supper from 5-7 p.m. at the post home on West Court Street.

SUNDAY

LINCOLN 208TH BIRTHDAY The Vermilion County Museum, 116 N. Gilbert St., Danville, is hosting a 1:30-4 p.m. open house for Abraham Lincoln’s 208th birthday.

TUESDAY

PLANT WORKSHOPThe next University of Illinois Extension’s Four Seasons Gardening program “How to Have Healthy Houseplants,” 1:30 p.m., at the Paris Public Library, 207 S. Main Street. The webinar program features Rhonda Ferree, extension horticulture educator, providing simple tips to select and care for houseplants. It is also possible to view from home by pre-registering at go.illinois.edu/4seasons_webinars.

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RAJKUMAR TEACHING DRAWING WORKSHOPKari Rajkumar, an award-winning fine artist from Paris, is

scheduled to teach a “Learn to Draw Faces” workshop 2-5 p.m. EST March 25, at the Hobby Lobby in Terre Haute, Ind. The store is located on U.S. 41 South.

The workshop focuses on the basic steps for accurately drawing the head and all the features, along with tips for realistic shading. It is good as either a starter or refresher course.

Rajkumar, who is primarily self-taught, is known for her highly detailed portraits in graphite, pastel and oils. Her work has re-ceived top honors in several regional, national and international competitions.

The workshop is open to all students, ages 12 and older. Space is limited and the registration deadline is Feb. 16. Registrations may be made by calling 217-264-0866.

For more information and specifics visit www.karirajkumar.com.

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HOSTED BYHOSTED BY Book Fair

Mon, Feb. 13 7AM−4PM (Conf. Room B)

Live Glass Blowing, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.A heartfelt thank you from Larkfield Glass

To all of our customersA free flower to every lady visitor

Plus refreshments, and a good time for all!

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PARIS POLICE DEPARTMENTn Feb. 3, at 9:24 a.m.,

Wade V. Gossett, 31, 1406 S. Main, was arrested at 401 Union on an Edgar County warrant and possession of drug paraphernalia. Gossett was transported to the Edgar County Jail pending posting of bond.n Feb. 3, at 6:23 p.m., Nic-

ki N. Thompson, 31, 704 E. Court St., Apt. 5, was arrest-ed at 708 E. Washington on an Edgar County failure to appear warrant and a Doug-las County warrant. Thomp-son was transported to the Edgar County Jail pending posting of bond. n Feb. 4, at 3:04 p.m.,

Jessica L. Overton, 30, 413 W. Arthur, was arrested at 211 S. Central and charged with retail theft. Overton was transported to the Edgar County Jail pending posting of bond.n Feb. 4, at 8:31 p.m., Bil-

ly D. Ward, 51, 315 S. Cen-tral, #6, was arrested and charged with simple battery. Ward was transported to the Edgar County Jail pending posting of bond. n Feb. 4, at 8:31 p.m.,

Robert J. Pembor, 36, 315 Central St., #5, was arrested and charged with simple bat-tery, Pembor was transport-ed to the Edgar Count Jail pending posting of bond. n Feb. 6, at 8:17 a.m.,

Stephanie L. Hovis, 29, Hymera, Ind., was stopped at Bayard and Floyd and charged with driving while license suspended. Hovis posted bond and was re-leased. n Feb. 6, at 9:02 a.m.,

a single vehicle/property damage accident occurred at East Crawford and Monte-rey. The first vehicle involved was a 2006 Toyota driven by Samuel D. Groves, 19, 621 S. Austin, and owned by Jay and Yvonne Groves. Also dam-aged was a wood fence owned by Daniel S. Jensen Jr. of 405 E. Crawford. Groves was cit-

ed at the scene with failure to reduce speed to avoid an ac-cident. He was released on a notice to appear in court. n Feb. 6, at 3:07 p.m.,Wil-

liam J. Wimsett, 24, 314 E. Crawford St., was arrested on a Douglas County war-rant. Wimsett was transport-ed to the Edgar County Jail pending posting of bond.n Feb. 6, at 8:15 p.m.,

Robert A. Chapman, 43, 213 E. Jackson, was arrested at his residence on an Edgar County warrant. Chapman was transported to the Edgar County Jail pending posting of bond. n Feb. 6, at 9:03 p.m.,

Jacob W. Gosnell, 28, 220 Sheriff, Apt. 4, was issued a city ordinance citation at his residence for possession of cannabis and possession of drug paraphernalia. Gosnell was issued a city court date.n Feb. 6, at 9:08 p.m., Alex-

ander S. Mitchell, 20, 315 N. Jefferson, was arrested at his address on an Edgar County warrant. Mitchell was trans-ported to the Edgar County Jail pending posting of bond.

n Feb. 7, at 2:25 a.m., Jacob D. Pardi, 24, 444 Prairie, was arrested at Jefferson and Mad-ison and charged with failure to notify secretary of state of change of address, no rear reg-istration light, failure to signal and possession of a controlled substance. Pardi was transport-ed to the Edgar County Jail pending a court appearance.

PARIS FIRE DEPARTMENTn Feb. 4, at 10:32 a.m., the

department was dispatched to 226 W. Elizabeth for a car-bon monoxide investigation.n Feb. 4, at 2:30 p.m., the

department was dispatched to Circle K, 300 S. Main, for a trash fire. The fire was out upon arrival. n Feb. 5 at 4:13 p.m., the

department was dispatched for a car fire opposite the Vermilion Fire Station.n Feb. 5, at 6:44 p.m., the

department was dispatched to the Human Resources Center, 753 E. Court St., be-hind Paris Community Hos-pital, for an activated alarm. Firefighters discovered a boiler malfunctioned and

tripped the detectors.n Feb. 6, at 9:13 p.m., the

department was dispatched to the Human Resources Center, 753 E. Court St., be-hind Paris Community Hos-pital, for an activated alarm. Firefighters discovered a boiler malfunctioned and tripped the detectors. The boiler was shut down after this call.

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CARBONDALE — Sum-mer research internships will be offered for the ninth year at Sim-mons Cancer Institute (SCI) at Southern Illinois University (SIU) Medicine. SCI will award four paid positions to qualified undergraduate college students who plan a career in medicine or biomedical research with a focus on cancer.

Don Torry, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Medical Microbiology, Immu-nology and Cell Biology and director of basic and transla-tional research at SCI, said the program, “shows students who have an interest in research and medicine what it’s like to work in a lab and experience cancer research first hand.”

Interns will have the oppor-tunity to learn basic laborato-ry skills while working under the supervision of SCI faculty members. The SIU Carbondale campus will host one intern, and the SIU School of Medicine campus in Springfield will host three. Funding for the program is made possible through Den-im & Diamonds, the cancer institute’s annual gala that raises funds for cancer research and patient programs.

Torry said 29 students have gone through the internship since 2009. Thirteen have gone on to medical, dental or physi-cian assistant schools or research careers, and all eight from the last two years plan to apply for medi-cal or graduate school.

“Simmons Cancer Institute’s summer internship allowed

me to explore my future as a researcher and learn essential lab techniques that I have used throughout my education,” said Springfield native Olivia Gob-ble, a 2015 intern who attends the University of Alabama. “It also pushed me to think outside of the box and approach prob-lems, occurring both in lab and in life, in a scientific way.”

Qualified undergraduates are defined as individuals who have completed their freshman year of college by June 2017 and will enter their sophomore, junior or senior year in fall 2017.

Applicants should submit a current college transcript, a re-sume and a personal statement describing current studies, ac-tivities and future career goals. Applicants must arrange to have two letters of reference from

college instructors submitted prior to the deadline. The paid internships are awarded on a competitive basis.

Applications should be sub-mitted as a single PDF docu-ment and emailed to Theresa Casson at [email protected]. Instructors should email their reference letters directly to Casson. The deadline for receipt of all materials is Friday, March 17, 2017. Contact Casson with any questions or for additional information at 217-545-2220.

The mission of Simmons Cancer Institute at SIU is to serve the people of central and southern Illinois by addressing their present and future cancer needs through education, re-search, patient care and com-munity service. Its website is www.siumed.edu/cancer.

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Carbondale offers annual medical internships

The Edgar County Community Foundation presents a check for $20,000 to support

the installation of new bleachers at Laker Stadium, as part of the ongoing enhance-ments for the historic Paris baseball field.

Standing, from left, are Laker Stadium Board members Bob Colvin, Steve Young

and Matt Colvin, foundation director Tom Hebermehl, city finance commissioner

Harry Hughes, Andy Bess, Laker Stadium board; Harry Frost, foundation director;

Brad Tucker, foundation board president and Jim Osborne, Laker Stadium board.

Kneeling in front are Michael Martin, Laker Stadium Board and Warren Sperry,

foundation development director. Stand-ing in the new bleachers are Rob Anderson

and Bob Morris, foundation directors. The new seating joins other improve-

ments recently completed including new restrooms and concession area.

Special to The Prairie Press

EDGAR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FUNDS NEW BLEACHERS

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The Edgar County Bank & Trust Co.

MUSICIAN OF THE MONTH

Honoring outstanding Paris High School seniors whoparticipate in instrumental or vocal music or drama.

Henry ArpJanuary 2017 Musician of the Month

Pictured from left are: Parents of Award Recipient, Jeff and Suzi Arp; Award Recipient, Henry Arp; Assistant Cashier and Senior Vice President Retail of Edgar County Bank, Autumn Kasey; Director of Bands, Paris Cooperative High School, Kevin Pruiett; Assistant Director of Bands and Choir Director,

Paris Cooperative High School, Jessica Hendrickson.

Member FDIC

Henry, son of Jeff and Suzi Arp, has earned the Musician of the Month award spon-sored by The Edgar County Bank & Trust Co. Henry’s musical activities include Band, Beacon Brigade, Jazz Ensemble, Choir, Elite Harmony and Drama. His other school activities include Spanish Club, Football, Tennis and Drama Club. Henry’s community activities include Kiwanis, Squires, School Service Project, Children’s Community Theater and Mentoring.

The officers and staff of The Edgar County Bank & Trust Co. understand the discipline and commitment of excellence required of our outstanding senior musicians. We are proud to

honor this outstanding PCHS student for working to be the best!

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A Paris man, who was one of five individuals arrested in a drug bust by Paris po-lice in June 2016, entered a

negotiated guilty plea Feb. 2 during the criminal and traffic court call in Edgar County Circuit Court.

Nathaniel Parker, 20, Par-is, pleaded guilty to a Class

3 felony for possession of methamphetamine, and the state dismissed a Class 2 felony unlawful use of prop-erty for methamphetamine manufacturing charge.

He was sentenced to 150 days in jail with 60 days to be served as electronic home monitoring and the remaining 90 days are sub-ject to stayed jail time with good conduct credit to ap-ply. He was also sentenced to two years first-offend-er probation, a $500 fine, court costs and various state fees and ordered to forfeit items seized at the time of his arrest and to complete counseling per an evalua-tion.

Parker was one of five in-dividuals arrested when po-lice officers raided a home at 313 St. Clair Street, after receiving numerous tips throughout the night about possible drug traffic at that location. During the raid, officers found cannabis, cannabis packaging items, cannabis smoking pipes, methamphetamine and methamphetamine pipes in the residence.

Other individuals appear-ing before the court includ-ed:IN CUSTODYn Dylan S. English, 26,

Georgetown, appeared in custody. He was charged with a Class 3 felony for possession of methamphet-amine. English told the court he will hire a private attorney and the matter was continued for the prelimi-nary hearing. English was remanded to custody pend-ing posting of bond. n Dalton L. Maus, 25,

Paris, appeared in custody of the Illinois Department of Corrections. He is cur-rently serving a 15-month sentence for possession of controlled substance, but still faces the following un-resolved charges: a Class X felony for delivery of methamphetamine, a Class 1 felony for possession of methamphetamine, two counts of a Class 2 felony for unlawful use of property for methamphetamine man-ufacturing, a Class 3 felony for possession of metham-phetamine, a Class 4 felony for aggravated fleeing from a police officer and a Class A misdemeanor for posses-sion of drug paraphernalia. Those matters were con-tinued for pretrial confer-ences.

Bond was increased to $50,000 in his two unre-solved cases where Maus is charged with a Class X fel-ony for armed robbery and a Class 3 felony for failure to return to a penal institu-tion after a furlough. He was remanded to custody of the IDOC for completion of his sentence.n Jonathan D. White,

45, Paris, appeared in cus-tody. He waived his right to an attorney, pleaded guilty to a Class A misde-meanor for obstruction of identification charge and was sentenced to 10 days in jail with credit for five days previously served with good conduct credit to ap-ply, one year of conditional discharge, a $300 fine, court costs and various state fees.

CHARGESn Cleta Annie Blaudow,

28, Paris, was charged with a Class 3 felony for posses-sion of methamphetamine. The public defender was ap-

pointed and the matter was continued for preliminary hearing. Her unresolved 2016 identical charge was continued for a pretrial con-ference.n Lloyd A. Blaudow,

27, Paris, was charged and pleaded guilty to a Class A misdemeanor for driving on a suspended license. He was sentenced to one year of conditional discharge, a $400 fine, court costs and various state fees.

GUILTY PLEASn Steven L. Baty, 19,

Paris, entered a negotiat-ed guilty plea to a Class 4 felony for possession of a controlled substance. He was sentenced to 120 days in jail with 30 days to be served as electronic home monitoring with work re-lease and the remaining 90 days are subject to stayed jail time with good time conduct to apply, two years first-offender probation, a $500 fine, 10 hours of com-munity service work, court costs, various state fees and an order to undergo drug counseling per an evalua-tion. In return for the plea, the state dismissed a Class C misdemeanor cannabis charge.n Danny L. Devers, 48,

Paris, pleaded guilty to a Class A misdemeanor bat-tery charge and was sen-tenced to 30 days in jail with credit for 16 days previous-ly served, one year of con-ditional discharge, a $300 fine, court costs and vari-ous state fees. He was also ordered to have no contact with the apparent victims or their residence. In exchange for the guilty plea, the state dismissed two Class C mis-demeanor disorderly con-duct charges.n Leora L. Kelsheimer,

45, Clinton, Ind., pleaded guilty to a Class B misde-meanor for speeding. She was sentenced to a $230 fine and court costs. n Savannah L. Floyd,

30, Paris, pleaded guilty to a Class A misdemeanor for driving on a suspended li-cense. Floyd was sentenced to one year of conditional discharge, a $300 fine, court costs and various state fees.

n Lupe M. Foley, 36, Par-is, pleaded guilty to a Class A misdemeanor for reck-less driving. Foley was sen-tenced to one year of con-ditional discharge, a $400 fine, court costs and various state fees. n Joshua S. Rodgers, 34,

Indianola, pleaded guilty to a Class A misdemeanor for driving under the influence of alcohol. In exchange for the plea, the state dismissed a second DUI charge. Rod-gers was sentenced to five days in jail with credit for one day previously served, two years of conditional dis-charge, a $750 fine, a $100 DUI equipment fee, court costs and various state fees. He was also ordered to ob-tain counseling per an eval-uation and to report to the Edgar County jail at 6 p.m. Feb. 13 to serve his jail time.n Zachary Alan Schultz,

21, Georgetown, pleaded guilty to a Class A misde-meanor for driving on a suspended license. Schultz was sentenced to one year of conditional discharge, a $300 fine court costs and various state fees.

NOT GUILTY PLEASn Donald E. Cusick, 53,

Paris, pleaded not guilty with a jury trial demand to a Class A misdemeanor for driving on a suspended li-cense charge. The matter was continued for a pretrial conference.n Megan C. Cusick, 21,

Paris, denied a petition to revoke her conditional dis-charge sentence for a Class A misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia con-viction. The matter was continued for a pretrial con-ference. n Allison N. Hissem, 27,

Paris, pleaded not guilty with a jury trial demand to a Class A misdemeanor for domestic battery. A pretrial conference was scheduled.n Dakota E. S. Hovis, 23,

Paris, pleaded not guilty with a jury trial demand to a Class A misdemeanor for driving on a suspended li-cense charge. The matter was continued for a pretrial conference.n Tristen D. McDaniel,

19, Marshall, pleaded not guilty with a jury trial de-mand to a Class 4 felony for possession of a controlled substance, a Class A misde-meanor for driving under the influence of drugs and a Class A misdemeanor for possession of a hypodermic needle. A pretrial confer-ence was scheduled.n Michael S. Parrill, 36,

Paris, pleaded not guilty with a jury trial demand following the preliminary hearing. Parrill is charged with a Class 4 felony for aggravated driving while li-cense is revoked. The mat-ter was continued for a pre-trial conference.

ARREST WARRANTSWarrants were prepared

and issued when the follow-ing individuals failed to an-swer the court call: Jerry L. Arthur, 52, Danville; Chad W. Barnett, 39, Catlin; Rod-ger D. Baugh, 33, Paris; Karla A. Carrizales, 51, Par-is; Maximillain C. E. Cher-ry, 41, Terre Haute, Ind.; James W. Elswick III, 33, Paris; Thomas A. Fennell, 25, Paris; Jason W. Fonner, 39, Chrisman; Kristin D. Jewell, 36, Dugger, Ind.; William G. Kammer, 55, Paris; Kenneth L. Platt, 26, Marshall and Cynthia E. Shovan, 58, Terre Haute, Ind.

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LARRY ENTRICANCASEY – Larry Lee Entrican,

75, of Casey, passed away at 1:45 a.m. Monday, Feb. 6, 2017, at his

home. He was re-

tired as a chef on an oilrig.

At his re-quest no ser-vices will be held. Markwell Funeral Home

is in charge of the arrangements.Mr. Entrican was born Nov. 8,

1941, at Paris, the son of the late Francis William Entrican and Mabel Evanell Rue Entrican.

Survivors include his com-panion, Darlene Puckett of Casey; stepdaughter, Cynthia Johnson of Casey; sister, Vivian Joseph of Marshall; grandchil-dren, Andrea Deweese, Tiffany Davis, Dakota Sandiford and Meisha Williams.

Mr. Entrican previously worked at Casey Tool and Ma-chine. He was a talented car-penter and painted murals in churches.

Online condolences may be left at www.markwellfuneral-home.com.

MARY KEENENMary Ellen Keenen, 97, of

Blanford, Ind., passed away at 12:13 a.m. Tuesday, Feb.

07, 2017, at Vermil lion Co nv a l e s -cent Center, Clinton, Ind. She was a de-voted home-maker.

Ser v i ces celebrating her life are 10 a.m. CST Friday, Feb. 10, at Tem-pleton Funeral Home. Burial follows in Edgar Cemetery. Visitation is from 5 to 7 p.m. CST Thursday, Feb. 9, at the

funeral home.Mrs. Keenen was born

Feb. 8, 1919, in Elbridge Township, Edgar County, the daughter of the late Sterling and Nora E. Wilson Barlet. She married John Leonard Keenen Jan. 18, 1936, at Terre Haute, Ind., and he preceded her in death June 15, 1988.

Survivors include a daugh-ter, Sandra (Jerry) Giovanin-ni of Blanford; a brother, Emil Barlet of Detroit, Mich.; a grandson, Tony (Janet) Giovaninni of Blanford; two great-granddaughters, Nicole (R.J.) Davis of Clinton and Teresa Giovaninni of Blan-

ford; one great-great-grand-son, Joseph Davis; and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by two infant daughters, three brothers and one sister.

Mrs. Keenen was a mem-ber of Country Hope Chris-tian Church of Jonestown, Ind. She enjoyed quilting, crocheting and spending time with her grandchildren.

Memorial donations may be made to Country Hope Christian Church of Jonestown.

Online condolences may be left at www.TempletonFu-neralHome.com

SHIRLEY ALLSPACHMT. PULASKI – Shirley

Jean Allspach, 90, of Mt. Pu-laski, died at 7:03 a.m. Sat-

urday, Feb. 4, 2017, at Vonderlieth Living Cen-ter, Mt. Pu-laski.

Ser v i ces are 10 a.m. Friday, Feb.

10, at Fricke-Calvert-Schrad-er Funeral Home, with Mark Weber officiating. Burial at Steenbergen Cemetery fol-lows the service. Visitation is from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, at Mt. Pulaski Chris-tian Church Family Life Cen-ter.

Mrs. Allspach was born May 8, 1926, the daughter of the late Royal and Helen Sny-der Carter. She married Ed-

ward Leigh Allspach Feb. 26, 1948, and he preceded her in death Dec. 6, 2010.

Surviving is one son, George (Karen) Allspach of Mt. Pulaski; four daughters, Kathryn (Scott) Steinfort of Sunrise, Fla., Linda (Dennis) Sheehan of Lincoln, Jerilee (Brad) Gibbs of Crawford, Colo., and Jo Ellen (Mark) Gil-bert of Paris; 13 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by one son, David Edward Allspach, July 23, 1975.

Mrs. Allspach attended Mt. Pulaski High School and Mil-liken University. She helped at the family businesses, Car-ter Pharmacy and Allspach Farms. She was a homemak-er who always put her family first. One of her favorite things was caring for her grandchil-dren and great-grandchildren.

She always had time for ev-erybody. She had a passion for cooking, gardening and helping other people and was involved in many community activities. In addition, she en-joyed traveling the world with her husband, volunteering at the Mt. Pulaski Historical Society and being a part of the Prairie State Model T Car Club, where she played a lead-ership role for years.

Mrs. Allspach’s faith was an important part of her life. She was a supportive member of Copeland Christian Church and Mt. Pulaski Christian Church. Her sweet smile and gentle disposition will be long remembered by all who knew her.

Memorial donations may be made to Vonderlieth Liv-ing Center or Mt. Pulaski Christian Church.

BARBARA JACOBarbara Ann Jaco, 47 of

Paris, passed away at 4:45 p.m. Monday, Feb. 6, 2017, at Sar-

ah Bush Lin-coln Health C e n t e r , Mattoon.

P r i v a t e m e m o r i a l services for the family will be held

at a later date at Stewart and Carroll Funeral Home.

Ms. Jaco was born Feb. 15, 1969, at Paris, the daughter of Steven Jaco and Martha A. (Matheny) Jaco Sturmer.

Survivors include her mother Martha “Marti” Stur-mer of Paris; her stepfather, Richard Postlewait of Mat-

toon; her children, Jessy Spen-cer of Paris, Shirley Kennedy of St. Bernice, Ind., Veronica Jaco of St. Bernice, Ind., and Jason Spencer of Paris; one grandson, Riley Rhoads of Paris; two aunts, Jane (Tony) Dawson of Paris and Velda (Dan) Vice of Marshall; and cousins, Erica Dawson and Alicia Robertson.

She was preceded in death by her father; her maternal grandparents, Ralph and Helen Matheny; a brother, William D. “Willie” Jaco, and an uncle, George William Matheny.

Memorial donations may be made to ECCF, Inc. Do It Fund.

Online condolences may be left at www.stewartandcar-rollfuneralhome.com.

NORMA KEEFERNorma Mae Keefer, 77, of

Paris, passed away at 1:12 p.m. Friday, Feb. 3, 2017, in the

e m e r g e n c y room of Paris Community Hospital. She was retired af-ter more than 20 years as a third grade teacher at

Redmon and Mayo schools in Paris.

Services celebrating her life are 1:30 p.m. today, Feb. 8, at Templeton Funeral Home, with Pastor John Youngblood officiating. Burial follows in Ed-gar Cemetery. Visitation is from noon until the service time to-day at the funeral home.

Mrs. Keefer was born Sept. 29, 1939, at Paris, the daughter of the late Roy and Olla Mae Cash Kirby Sr. She married Phillip Keefer Oct. 14, 1962, at Trinity United Methodist Church in Paris. He preceded her in death March 7, 1978.

Survivors include two broth-ers, Donald E. Kirby of Auburn-dale, Fla., and Larry Kirby of Kissimmee, Fla.; and several nieces, nephews and cousins, including her dear cousin and caregiver, Evelyn M. Biggs of Paris.

She was preceded in death by three brothers, Jerry Kirby, Leo Kirby and Roy Kirby Jr.

Mrs. Keefer attended As-bury College in Tennessee and earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Education from Eastern Illinois University. She was a member of New Beginnings Church of Paris and of the former Trini-ty United Methodist Church. She was also a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #3601 and American Legion Post #211 Auxiliaries. She was a life masters bridge player and also loved playing cards and computer games. She will be remembered as a generous per-son who donated scholarships through the years, was kind to animals and enjoyed watching and caring for birds.

Memorial donations may be made to Sutton Senior Center or to Paul Warner Animal Res-cue.

Online condolences may be left at www.TempletonFuneral-Home.com.

LOUISE KEYSLouise Moody Keys, 90,

of Paris, passed away at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 6, 2017, at Paris Healthcare Center. She was a devoted homemaker.

Per her instructions, all services are private, and burial is in Edgar Cemetery. Templeton Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Keys was born Aug. 8, 1926, at Kansas, the daughter of the late George and Grace Collier Moody. She married Donald Keys, and he preceded her in death.

Survivors include five chil-dren, Georgia (Robert) Col-vin of Paris, Evelyn (Merle) Hays of Paris, Donna (Pat Stone) Keys of Grapevine, Texas, Joseph “Joe” (Shei-la) Keys of Paris, William “Bill” (Vicki) Keys of Paris, Charles “Chuck” ( Jennifer) Keys of Paris; grandchildren, Christian (Lora) Colvin of Paris, Granville (Danielle)

Colvin of Paris, Dustin ( Jen-nifer) Colvin of St. Joseph, Cheston (Brandy) Hays of Paris, Chandra ( James) Smith of Maricopa, Ariz., Charla (Bruce) Beabout of Paris, Alyx (Ezra) Bates of Warsaw, Ind., Christopher “Chip” (Beth) Keys of Par-is, Ryan (Abby Smith) Keys of Terre Haute, Ind., Kelli Keys of Paris, Shelbi ( Judd) Rhoads of Paris, Donald “Jake” (Laurie) Keys of Par-is, Catherine “Katie” (Dan-iel) Schopmeyer of Brazil, Ind., Caroline “Callie” Keys of Champaign, Cody (Lind-sey) Keys of Paris, Courtney (Ryan) Keys of Pendleton, Ind., Caleb Keys of Paris and Jordan Keys of Paris; great-grandchildren, Carah and Case Colvin of Paris, Jaxson, Jace and Jentry Col-vin of St. Joseph, Brinkley Colvin of Paris, Josh Wood of Paris, Aleah and Alec Smith of Maricopa, Ashlyn

and Angus Beabout of Par-is, Cooper Keys, Hallee and Penelope Rhoads, Rosemary Keys, Kallen Keys all of Par-is, Paedyn and Emmitt Keys of Paris, Rory and Benja-min Schopmeyer of Brazil, Kanon Keys and Eli Keys of Paris; as well as several niec-es and nephews, and many friends.

She was preceded in death by a son, Chester Al-vin “Chip” Keys; a grand-son, Hayden Keys; and two brothers, Charles Moody and Leon “Sport” Moody.

Mrs. Keys was a member of the First Christian Church of Paris.

Memorial donations may be made to the Paris High School Athletic Depart-ment, c/o Templeton Funer-al Home, 600 E. Court St., Paris, IL 61944.

Online condolences may be left at www.TempletonFu-neralHome.com.

BARBARA POORMANMarshall – Barbara S.

Poorman, 61, of Marshall, passed away at 3 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 5, 2017, in her home af-ter an extended illness. She was formerly employed at Fraker Trucking and TRW.

A funeral service is 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10, at the Pearce Funeral Home, with Bob Miller officiating. Visitation is from 4 p.m. until the ser-vice the time Friday at the funeral home.

Mrs. Poorman was born July 11, 1955, at Terre Haute, Ind., the daughter of HL and Olive Grindle Holling-

sworth. She married Doug Poorman Feb. 19, 1988, at Marshall, and he survives.

She is also survived by one daughter Jennifer (Bri-an) Leigh of Marshall; three sons, Steve ( Jamie) Poorman of Marshall, Eric Kelley of Marshall and Stanley (Ryan) Poorman of Arizona; five grandchildren, Sara Leigh, Jacob Poorman, Chase Poorman, Tyler Poorman and Bryce Poorman all of Marshall; her father, HL Hollingsworth of Marshall; three brothers, Herman Hollingsworth of Martins-ville, Austin Hollingsworth

of Marshall and Dennis Hollingsworth of Paris; one sister, Deanna Hollingsworth of Clinton, N.C.; and several nieces, nephews and cousins.

She was preceded in death by her mother and two brothers, Kenny and Ernie.

Mrs. Poorman was a 4-H Leader with the Pikes Peak 4-H Club and was a Wabash Township Supervisor.

Memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society.

Online condolences may be left at www.pearcefuneral-services.com.

NORMA COCHRANNorma L. Hill Cochran,

87, of Paris, passed away Feb. 4, 2017, at Paris Healthcare

Center in Paris. She worked as a secretary.

Her wish for immedi-ate crema-tion is being handled by

Stewart and Carroll Funeral Home. A private family me-morial celebration of life is lat-er in the spring. No visitation is planned.

Mrs. Cochran was the daughter of the late Horace and Gladys Lowry Hill. She married Bobbie Cochran May 15, 1949, and he preceded her in death in August 1984.

She is survived by her daughter, Jannice (Jann) Peter of O’Fallon, Mo.; her stepson, Bob (BJ) Cochran of Ken-nesaw, Ga.; her five grandchil-dren, Katelyn Williams and

Eric Peter of Missouri, Zak, Derek (Lisa) and Brad (Me-lissa) Cochran of Georgia and four step great- grandchildren; and several nieces and neph-ews, their children and grand-children.

She was preceded in death by a son, Keith Bradley Co-chran in October 2000; and a sister, Peggy Steinbrook.

Mrs. Cochran was a lifelong resident of Paris and worked as a secretary at Paris High School, Unarco and for attor-neys Bob Gibson and David Frisse.

She was a member of the First Baptist Church where she participated on the deco-rations committee and helped with other church activities during Jim Conger’s time as pastor.

Memorial donations may be made to Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

Online condolences may be left at www.stewartandcar-rollfuneralhome.com.

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group of Republican senior statesmen are pushing for a carbon tax to combat the ef-fects of climate change, and hoping to sell their plan to the White House.

Former Secretary of State Jim Baker is leading the effort, which also includes former Secretary of State George Shultz. In an opinion piece published Tuesday night in The Wall Street Journal, they argued, “there is mounting evidence of problems with the atmosphere that are growing too compelling to ignore.”

The group will meet Wednesday with White House officials, including Vice President Mike Pence, senior adviser Jared Kush-ner, and Gary Cohn, director of the National Economic Council. Ivanka Trump is also expected to attend, according to a person familiar with the plans. The person was not au-thorized to discuss the meet-ing publicly and insisted on anonymity.

Carbon taxes are designed to raise the cost of fossil fuels to bring down consumption. Baker and Shultz detailed in the opinion piece their plan for a gradually increasing car-bon tax, with dividends being returned to people, as well as border adjustments for the

carbon content of exports and imports and the rollback of regulations.

According to an outline of the plan, the group will call for a gradually increasing carbon tax that, “might begin at $40 a ton and increase steadily over time.” It would raise $200 bil-lion to $300 billion annually. They would then redistribute tax proceeds back to consum-ers on a quarterly basis in what they call carbon dividends that could be approximately $2,000 annually for a family of four.

Their plan would also set border adjustments based on carbon, which would result in fees for products from coun-tries without similar carbon pricing systems. And they seek to rollback regulations enacted under Obama, including the Clean Power Plan.

So far, Trump has sent mixed signals on whether or how he will try to slow Earth’s warming temperatures and rising sea levels.

During the transition, Trump met with prominent climate activists Al Gore and Leonar-do DiCaprio. Ivanka Trump, a close adviser to her father, has indicated interest in working on the issue. But the president has also hired oil industry champi-ons who want to reverse Presi-dent Barack Obama’s efforts to rein in emissions.

Statesmen head carbon tax effort

WASHINGTON — To review the left’s reaction to Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch is to infer he’s the spawn of Dracula — a cruel and bloodless beast who shrinks from the light and plays havoc with history.

Among the many distortions: Gorsuch is against clean water, consumers, women’s health, dying people and workers. The liberal Alliance for Justice declares him worse in some ways than Justice Antonin Scalia, whose seat Gor-such would assume if confirmed. People for the American Way claims he’s an ideologue, “far outside of the judicial mainstream who has a record of warping the law to serve the powerful over the interests and constitutional rights of ordinary Americans.”

Or, one could argue he is cou-rageous in protecting the people and the Constitution by adhering to text and original intent without concern for his popularity.

As background, Gorsuch has served since 2006 on the Den-ver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, where his reputation as a brilliant jurist and writer gained national attention. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he also earned a doctorate from Oxford in legal philosophy. His dissertation was on euthanasia, which has raised flags among those fighting for death-with-dig-nity laws. If Gorsuch opposes assisted suicide for the terminally ill, goes the thinking, then he must also oppose a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy.

Gorsuch has said that human life has intrinsic value and that no other human has a right to destroy another’s, which seems on its face to be manifest. He has never written or ruled specifically on abortion, so this remains a hazy correlative. He is, indeed, an originalist, as was Scalia, and his rulings might not differ much

from his conser-vative predeces-sor’s.

Fundamental to his approach is the understand-ing that legisla-tures, and not courts, should create laws. This position also extends to admin-

istrators and bureaucrats. Liberals have sometimes preferred to fashion law through the courts, rather than navigate the legislative process, which is burdensome, stubborn and slow. It’s so much easier to create law in the courts and let people adapt.

This view would seem almost Trumpian but for his selection of Gorsuch, who is of the opposite inclination. After two dizzying weeks of confounding (Mexico), outrageous (travel ban) and ab-surd (Australia) first acts, Trump’s naming of Gorsuch brought a welcome pause. Yes, it was show-manship -- prime time and all that -- but, seriously, who cares? It was far and away the most presidential performance we’ve thus far wit-nessed, notwithstanding Trump’s nearly separating Gorsuch’s arm from its socket during a hand-shake.

Should Gorsuch be approved, the court’s composition obvi-ously doesn’t really change. The balance would remain the same, with Justice Kennedy, for whom Gorsuch clerked, as the swing vote. It’s the next seat for which Democrats should save their fire, lest they be viewed as intractable as the Republicans were the past eight years. No one wins this war.

Democrats are entitled to their indignation over Re-publicans’ refusal to consider Merrick Garland, President Obama’s choice for Scalia’s seat.

But their energies will be spent for naught -- and they could do far worse. Besides, there’s no real knowing how a justice will rule. Philosophical tem-perament is a factor, but it’s not the only one. Individual cases present facts and circumstances that can lead to unexpected conclusions. One needn’t look far for examples.

Chief Justice John Roberts shocked conservatives when he ruled favorably on the Afford-able Care Act, but his decision was double-edged. By deciding the penalty in Obamacare, intended for people who refused to buy insurance, was really a tax, Roberts also exposed the dishonesty in the Obama admin-istration’s presentation of the health care plan. Throughout the legislative process, the adminis-tration insisted it was not a tax.

Though cold comfort to conservatives, the ruling bol-stered arguments Obamacare was based on false pretenses and the assumption, as one of the law’s ar-chitects later boasted, that people would be too stupid to know the difference.

The upcoming debate should be scintillating theater as it strikes at the heart of a judge’s role. Gorsuch has made himself clear on this. In a 2016 concur-rence, he wrote: “Ours is the job of interpreting the Constitution. And that document isn’t some inkblot on which litigants may project their hopes and dreams for a new and perfected tort law, but a carefully drafted text judges are charged with applying according to its original public meaning.”

I wouldn’t wish on anyone the task of proving that wrong.

(Kathleen Parker writes a twice-weekly column on politics and culture. She received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for commentary.)

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EDITORIAL BOARD:Taylor M. Smith III, publisher and presidentNancy Roberts Zeman, editor and vice-presidentGary Henry, staff writer

Question the timing all you want, but last week’s legal filing by Attorney

General Lisa Madi-gan to stop pay-ing state employee wages without an official appro-priation is long overdue

and is completely consis-tent with a 2016 Illinois Supreme Court ruling and with her (and the gov-ernor’s) opposition to a similar lawsuit brought by social service providers.

Back in 2015, after the General Assembly and the governor couldn’t come to terms on a budget deal, AFSCME and other unions went to court and asked a judge to force the state to pay state workers even though there was no official appropriation for the salaries. That ruling remains in place today.

But this passage in the Illinois Constitution pret-ty much says it all: “The General Assembly by law shall make appropriations for all expenditures of public funds by the State.”

So the Illinois Supreme Court ruled in March of 2016 on a different case that the portion of AFSC-ME’s contract with the state requiring payment of back wages could not be honored without a proper legislative appropriation. In other words, no ap-propriation, no payment, even with a contract.

It was a completely reasonable decision. The governor shouldn’t be able to sign contracts and then force state payment without an actual appro-priation. The potential for abuse is mind blow-ing. Just imagine if Rod Blagojevich could’ve paid whomever he wanted, how much he wanted without any legislative permission.

Gov. Bruce Rauner’s position against a lawsuit brought by human service providers is also complete-ly in line with that 2016 Supreme Court decision.

Legislatorspushed tosolve crisis

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Everyone knows the state of Illinois is in a terrible crisis. As we enter the 19th month without a fully funded budget in place, the im-

pact of the egregious inaction by the governor and the legis-lature is felt by people across Illinois.

Universities, nonprofit organizations, businesses, grantees and vendors that re-ceive state funding have been harmed during this unprece-dented impasse. Some univer-sities have sustained program cuts, layoffs and significant enrollment declines; they are

again not receiving any funding from the state. Grants for low-income students to attend uni-versities are also not being funded.

Human and social service agencies that pro-vide critical services – including shelter for the homeless, services to people with disabilities or older citizens and support for victims of do-mestic violence and sexual assault – have been forced to make drastic cuts. Some agencies have shut their doors entirely.

The long-term financial impact continues to mount as well. Just last week, Illinois’ cred-it rating, already the worst in the nation, was downgraded again for unprecedented failure to enact a spending plan by the end of January.

The lack of progress on a state budget has been aided by a St. Clair County Court’s or-der allowing the state to continue to pay em-ployees without an enacted appropriations law. By removing the threat of a government shutdown, there has been little urgency to force action by the governor and the legis-lature. Instead, the state has paid for some operations without any legislative authority or fiscal check. No other state or the federal government has gone without a spending plan for so long, precisely because the devastating possibility of a government shutdown forces the executive and legislative branches to com-promise.

During the ongoing impasse, the Illinois Supreme Court issued a ruling that directly impacts the state’s ability to pay for opera-tions without a budget. The court’s decision overruled the sole legal basis for the St. Clair County Court order.

We are in the midst of an infor-mational perfect storm. In the past, news organizations — like The Prai-rie Press — sifted through informa-tion to try to determine its validity and veracity. Being trusted for what we report is an important part our reputation.

Whether we like it or not, the gatekeeping role the media from print newspaper to network news handled now falls to everyone. In this day and age, everyone assumes the position of publisher. Technol-ogy has democratize the process of making — or making up — the news.

Journalists no longer decide what is published. Information flows from website, blogs, Facebook and Twitter onto our laptops, tablets and smartphones. Everyone who posts, or reshares, a news story on

Facebook or retweets a link takes on a role once held by only a powerful few media executives. The problem stems from the fact that most social media publishers fail to consider the responsibility for what they post.

Even in 1807, Thomas Jefferson complained, “Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspa-per.” Even Julius Octavian Caesar used fake news against Marc Antony to become the leader of Rome.

Some people who use social media check what they publish. Others repost or retweet informa-tion without reading it carefully, much less doing any due diligence for accuracy. That plays right into

the plans of those who produce fake news. Contrary to popular belief, the goal of fake news is not to make people believe a lie but rather make them doubt all news.

As news consumers, work to veri-fy information. Here’s a few tips:

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to read, listen to and watch news with our own built-in prejudices. It is easy to discount something that upsets us or challenges our world-view. As studies and writers have noted, we believe what we want to believe.

When it comes right down to it, it’s up to each of us to confirm what we are being told. In this day and age, it’s not as difficult as you may think.

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The Trump Train is rolling on.It’s going so fast and in so many directions

at once that its critics can’t catch up.All week long President

Trump has filled the head-lines with news.

He’s nominated Neil Gor-such — a great judge who understands and reveres what the Constitution says, not what he’d like it to say — to fill Antonin Scalia’s un-fillable seat on the Supreme Court.

He’s seen his major cabinet picks at State, Treasury, the EPA, HHS, etc., finally get

confirmed, despite the whining and foot drag-ging of Senate Democrats.

He’s issued executive orders on taxes, regu-lations and who knows what else.

And he’s had tough-guy Michael Flynn, his National Security Advisor, sternly warn the Iranians that we’re no longer going to stand idly by as they make trouble in the Mideast and test-rattle their ballistic missiles.

By the time this column gets into print, we could be invading Yemen.

Things are happening fast in Washington — at “Trump Speed,” as someone has said.

It seems like a month ago the Trump administration’s so-called “Muslim ban” was announced, but it was actually only last week.

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The service providers say their signed state contracts mean they should be paid in full even though the General Assembly hasn’t approved the appropri-ations to do so. Never once has Gov. Rauner said those pro-viders ought to be paid without a formal budget in place.

But there he was last week saying Attorney General Madigan’s motion would directly harm state workers, while urging her to drop her legal motion. He’s been fighting the state employee unions since Day One and has said he wants to help social service groups, yet he wants state workers paid without an appropriation but doesn’t want social service

providers paid the same way?C’mon, man. I was born at

night, but not last night. What’s he really up to? Give me a minute and I’ll get to it.

House Republican Leader Jim Durkin’s reaction to AG Madigan’s move appeared to fly in the face of common sense: “This decision clearly under-mines the legislature’s duty to negotiate a bipartisan solution.”

I was in Decatur to give a speech last week about the prospects for the Senate’s much-touted grand bargain when I found out about AG Madigan’s motion. My speech, as initially written, gave that bipartisan effort no better than a 50-50 chance to spur a final deal.

If the attorney general had filed her motion last year after

the Supreme Court ruling, we wouldn’t be in this mess today, and Leader Durkin most certainly knows it. Nothing focuses the General Assembly’s bipartisan attention quite so much as a massive crisis.

So, why didn’t she file it last year? I’m told she wanted to give the General Assembly and the governor some time to work things out. They eventually agreed to a stopgap budget, so she laid low. But that stopgap budget expired at the end of December and the General Assembly left town last week without making significant progress.

There will naturally be widespread suspicions that AG Madigan acted on behalf of her father. The Illinois Republican Party explicitly made that

very point when it claimed the attorney general, “decided to put Speaker Madigan’s power politics ahead of hard-working families in an effort to shut down state government.”

That last sentence is the key here. The governor has done all he could to avoid a shutdown because a shutdown means all the emphasis would then be on quickly passing a real budget and the tax hikes which

go along with it to reopen the government’s shuttered doors.

And that means the gover-nor will lose much (or most, or possibly even all) of his beloved leverage to force through his various anti-union/pro-business economic reforms. And that leverage, whether he admits it or not, is the extreme pressure that’s been put on social service providers and the people they serve since this impasse began

18 long months ago.The attorney general has

asked the judge to allow the governor and the General Assembly to delay any order until Feb. 28 to give them time to work out a deal.

Get on it, folks.(Rich Miller is the editor of the

Capitol Fax blog and newsletter, which he has been publishing for more than 20 years. His email is [email protected]. )

Based on that ruling, I filed a motion in St. Clair County Court to uphold the Illinois Constitution. Enacting a bud-get is a basic function of our state government and must be addressed.

As attorney general, my goal is always to allow the execu-tive and legislative branches of government to do their jobs without legal intervention. While the stopgap budget was in place through the end of 2016, it was my hope the governor and the legislature would work to enact a budget that funded state operations for the remainder of this fiscal

year.But the stopgap budget ex-

pired, and Illinois now has no spending plan in place. As a re-sult, the governor and the leg-islature face the urgent need to enact a budget. To abide by the Supreme Court’s decision and the state Constitution, I have asked the court to make clear that any spending plan must provide explicit author-ity to pay state employee sal-aries.

I recognize the difficulties the governor and the legis-lature have faced in enacting a budget. I do not want state employees to be harmed by this crisis. This is why I rec-ommended the court pro-vide additional time to put

the budget in place to avoid undeserved hardship to state employees. The governor and legislature can resolve this situation at any time, and they have had a year and a half to do that.

To be sure, there have been signs of progress, but there also have been repeated set-backs. This court filing should give the budget process the momentum it needs.

By asking the court to up-hold the Constitution, we will finally solve this destructive crisis – not create one.

(Lisa Madigan is in her fourth term as the attorney gen-eral of Illinois. She is the daugh-ter of Speaker of the House Mi-chael Madigan.)

travelers from seven terror-ist-breeding countries from coming into the USA for three months, and also sus-pended the refugee program for four months until a better system of vetting could be devised.

The whole thing was a total political and public relations disaster for the president — a textbook example of how not to communicate to the American people.

What President Trump should have done was address

the country from the Oval Of-fice, fully explain what he was about to sign and then sign it.

He should have pointed out that it was temporary, that it was based on national security and geography, not religion, and the seven coun-tries listed were the same ones that had been singled out by the Obama administration as terrorism incubators.

All the problems and con-fusion and minor tragedies at airports for incoming travelers should have been foreseen and should never have occurred.

All the liberal howlings that Trump was discriminating

against the Muslim religion or the ban was unconstitutional would not have been eliminat-ed, but they would have been blunted.

The crowds of knuckleheads who protested at airports still would have shown up with their pre-printed anti-Trump signs, but they would have been much smaller.

The whole fiasco showed Trump and his team are still rookies who have a lot to learn about planning, explaining and spinning their executive edicts and decisions.

Trump got a D- for his Mus-lim ban announcement.

But the media got a solid F for the sloppy, misleading and partisan way they covered it.

The media didn’t put the executive order in perspective, didn’t explain it was based on geography and didn’t explain the seven countries on the list came from the Obama admin-istration.

In their fervor to get Trump, they didn’t bother to point out President Obama’s adminis-tration had slowed down the processing of Iraqis refugees coming to the U.S. for six months in 2011 for security reasons.

The most outrageous

thing the media did was to fan the idea that an executive order aimed at regulating the freedom of foreign visitors was unconstitutional.

It was perfectly constitu-tional. The U.S. Constitution doesn’t apply to foreign visitors.

The only people who have the constitutional right to come into the U.S. are American citizens.

Every country has restric-tions for its visitors. For exam-ple, you don’t have a right to go into Canada if you have a DUI.

It’s an extreme tough rule, but I don’t see the ACLU or Al-coholics Anonymous demon-

strating against Canada.If anyone was responsible for

all the sign-waving protestors who clogged up our airports last weekend, it was the dom-inant liberal media — which is clearly interested more in bashing Trump and getting ratings than the truth.

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risk to the facility.This is the second time

Waggoner has offered free ar-chery clinics at Newman. He did an outdoor version last year but has unable to follow through with another one un-til recently because of cancer treatments. He hopes to have another outdoor shooting time in late spring or early fall, but said that is largely depen-dent on his health.

“But maybe if the fathers are interested, it is something they can still do,” said Wag-goner.

Approximately 12 people were shooting in rotating groups of six and Waggon-er said five people were not present because of scheduling conflicts.

Safety was paramount as he walked the archers through procedures. He said when ev-eryone comes to the shooting line, they must stand with the point of the bow on top of their shoe. No arrows may be nocked until a whistle sounds giving the archers permission to shoot a flight of three ar-rows each. All stand patiently at the line until the last arrow is released. At that point, three blasts of the whistle is the sig-nal to retrieve the arrows.

A wide range of skills were evident on the line. Krystin Michael, 7, is in second grade

at Shiloh Grade School, and it was her first time attempting to use a bow and arrow.

“It was easy,” she insisted, adding she thinks she got one bull’s eye.

Michael wanted to attend the event because she likes trying different things, and her father Steven Michael en-courages that attitude in his children.

“I heard about it,” he said of the archery shoot and want-ed his children to try it. “It’s good for kids to have different experiences.”

It was also a new experience for him saying, “I never shot a bow before last weekend.”

Emery Keys, an older Shi-loh student, brought his own compound bow and regularly put arrows into the center of the target from about 15 feet away. Keys took up archery about four years ago and ap-preciates the opportunity for some extra practice.

“I want to keep getting bet-ter,” said Keys.

Waggoner said the shoot-ing clinic is intended for be-ginners, while stressing that everyone is welcome to par-ticipate.

“They don’t have to have anything, and I don’t charge,” Waggoner said. “I made all the recurve bows we are us-

ing. I just want them to have fun.”

He added it is not too late to participate, even for those not present at the Jan. 28 and Feb. 5 shoots. The only re-quest is people coming for the first time call either 837-2082 or 232-1457 so he can be sure to have enough equipment on hand, especially if someone needs a left-hand bow.

Waggoner believes archery appeals to people who like solitary challenges.

“It’s something you can do on your own, and you can see your improvement,” Waggon-er said. “It’s my biggest relax-ation.”

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in an agreement for the 911 equipment to remain in use on the Clear Talk Tower until such time as the FCC grants the new license, and it is certain the new height and location will meet ex-pectations. Enerstar has waived fees for use of the tower.

Mike Clark was present at the meeting and said the

Enerstar board members believe it is in the best inter-est of public safety to let the equipment remain in place for the time being, without a charge.

“Thank you for keeping the equipment on the tower until we can get this sorted out,” said Tory Eads, ETSB president.

Enerstar made another offer to the ETSB. Mike Clark asked if the board supports Enerstar hosting

first responder safety train-ing pertinent to accident scenes involving utility poles or down power lines.

“It takes a while to get this scheduled. We would like to offer that,” Mike Clark said.

He added from Enerstar’s perspective it is best to have all of the first responders come to one session rather than do trainings for indi-vidual units.

Eads asked Enerstar to coordinate scheduling the

program with Paris Fire Chief Brian Gates, who can contact all fire departments, and Edgar County Sheriff Jeff Wood on the law en-forcement side.

ETSB member Dave Mc-Crocklin is a volunteer with the Vermilion Fire Depart-ment, and he suggested a time other than during the workday.

“The best time is the late afternoon or early evening,” said McCrocklin.

Wolfe noted some incidental expense for piping is possible, but the city employees can do the installation.

Water superintendent Matt Shelato explained after the meeting the new system will improve the city’s water quality. He said Chrisman has always put in a heavy charge of chlorine to treat the iron and manganese in the water before it goes through the filters.

“It turned the iron into a solution that got through the filters,” said Shelato.

He said using a smaller amount of chlorine at the front will allow the filters to capture more of the iron and the post-chlorination system will handle the sanitation re-quirements before the water goes out to residents.

“With less chlorination up front, we will have better wa-

ter,” Shelato said.Wolfe reported he and city

employees visited the schools early Monday morning and pulled 56 water samples for a mandatory one-time lead test. The samples, he said, were sent to the lab used by the city, and he suggested the city pay the testing fee of $20 per sample to help the school district.

“It worth $1,000 to make sure the kids have good water up there,” said Owen.

The council also approved a technology purchase of no more than $750 for the wa-ter department to acquire a laptop and Microsoft of-fice software. Shelato said the purchase is necessary to comply with a request from Fehr-Graham, the city’s en-gineering firm. He explained Fehr-Grahm wants the daily well reports and other records transmitted digitally rath-er than hand written forms mailed to the engineers.

themselves or create a dis-ruption among other in-mates.

When the board meets today it will have five res-olutions from the Edgar County Highway Depart-ment on the agenda.

County engineer Aar-on Lawson said one of the resolutions is for a small project of $5,000 or less on the Shiloh Road to be completed using highway department employees and equipment.

A dual set of resolutions for approximately $60,000 is tied to the replacement of

a culvert style bridge on the Horace-Brocton Road this year. The local money is for construction engineering and hiring a company that specializes in documenting federal projects.

A similar set of two res-olutions for $40,000 is for the Camp Bridge project.

“It made the federal pro-gram for fiscal year 2021,” Lawson said about the Camp Bridge project, add-ing the resolutions are for money to begin prelimi-nary engineering.

The department is still exploring the possibility of using U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Develop-ment money to assist with

building the Staley Bridge in Elbridge Township and road improvements for ac-cess to Southfork Home-stead in Symmes Township.

According to Lawson, building a bridge over Sugar Creek at the Staley Road is a $1 million project that is possible only with creative financing, such as tackling the project in stages

He estimated $250,000 is needed to do the earth-works and approaches and another $750,000 to actu-ally build the bridge.

Board members dis-cussed the need to move ahead and create a road use agreement with Ameren Illinois before contractors

show up as early as March to work on ground where the company has easements to build a high voltage transmission line.

“We are the only one in the state that won’t sit down with them,” Lawson said, regarding the county board’s negative stance on the Illinois Rivers Trans-mission Line.

Ameren is suing some local landowners with con-demnation proceedings to acquire property ease-ments. Some of the land-owners were present at the meeting Monday and en-couraged the board not to deal with Ameren until the law suits are resolved, but others understood the dif-ficult position board mem-bers are confronting.

Lawson explained start-ing April 1 when the coun-ty’s 90-day winter weight restrictions are lifted, Ameren can legally put 80,000-pound loads on the road. Board member con-sensus is it is time to work on the road use agreement.

In another matter, Law-son said Ride Illinois, a bicycle advocacy group, supplied the county with free signs indicating the safest way for a motorist to pass a cyclist. According to information Ride Illinois provided, the Lower Terre Haute Road is the local hotspot for cyclists and asked the county to post the signs on the Lower T.

The information sur-prised board members.

“That’s a dangerous, dan-gerous highway to ride a bi-cycle,” said board member Phil Luddington.

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A no-commitment archery opportunity exists at Newman through March 18. The Waggoner family is hosting indoor shooting for all levels in the community center. People without equipment are welcome to use the supplied arrows and bows. Bowyer Dan Waggoner built all of the recurve bows in the photo. Sessions are free but he asks people call 837-2082 or 232-1457 in advance if they plan to attend so he can have enough equipment on hand.

Kennedy Brown draws a bead on the target during a recent archery clinic at the Newman Community Center.

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HOUSTON — The fans who made it seem like a home game for the New

England Patriots never lost hope, roaring at the smallest piece of good fortune even when

all really did seem lost. They had Tom Brady, after all, and anything seemed possible, even the biggest comeback in Super Bowl history.

For it to unfold the way it did Sunday night was as-tonishing, sure. But there was Tom Brady leaping in the air in unbridled joy as the glitter began falling, and suddenly it didn’t seem so astonishing after all.

This was a game football coaches will show their players for years to come, with the lesson that nothing is impossible. This was a game that forever cemented the legacy of the greatest quarterback ever to play and the best coach ever to prowl the sidelines.

Yes, they needed a hold-ing call and an inexplicable play-calling decision by the Falcons to pull it off. A trick play to score the first 2-point conversion didn’t hurt either.

The biggest coin flip in football history went their way, too.

But it was really just a case of Brady and his re-ceivers finally finding their rhythm at just the right time that made it all pos-sible. Time and time again he found them and they delivered after the catch as the Patriots marched up and down the field in a furious rally unmatched in 50 previous Super Bowls.

“This is unbelievable,” Brady said, and he’s never been more right.

This was a script Hollywood would have rejected, a comeback from 25 points down to force the first overtime in the history of the Super Bowl, and give Brady and Beli-chick a record fifth ring. If it could be even sweeter, it was made so by Roger Goodell having to swallow his pride and present owner Robert Kraft the trophy that New England fans swore he was trying to steal from them.

Want another reason to remember this one for a long time? You’ll see it replayed every time the NFL’s greatest moments are on display.

Nine years ago, the Patriots had a Super Bowl taken away from them by a catch David Tyree of the New York Giants made against his helmet. This time a circus catch by Julian Edelman against a defender’s foot while smothered by defenders helped them take one away from the Falcons.

“We’ve been on the other end of a few of those catches,” Brady said. “It was one of the greatest catches I’ve ever seen. I don’t know how he caught it.”

For the better part of three quarters, the Patriots had seemed old and slow. The dynasty they built in New England seemed on the verge of collapse.

No way the Falcons could blow a 28-3 lead. No freakin’ way, even if the fans continued to believe.

Not behind Matt Ryan, so cool under pressure that he got the nickname Matty Ice. Not after the

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PHS cheer team takes 3rdNearly flawless finals performance earns Tigers place on IHSA competition podium

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BLOOMINGTON — The Paris High School cheer team capped one of the most suc-cessful seasons in the history of the competitive cheerlead-ing program as they took third place in the IHSA small school varsity state competi-tion Saturday at U.S. Cellular Coliseum.

The squad, coached by Pia Twigg assisted by Tan-ner Laughlin and Heather Crippes, completed a nearly flawless performance to grab third place. Each squad mem-ber received a medallion. The team accepted a large — and heavy — trophy that was presented to the school Sat-urday evening before the Par-is-Chrisman basketball game.

After the preliminary round the Tigers were in fourth place after delivering a deducation-free routine, fall-

ing slightly behind Rockford Lutheran.

Paris needed to produce a deduction-free routine to

compete for a podium spot and the team delivered.

“To be one of the Top 3 teams in the State is over-

whelming. The team worked hard for this and it was well earned,” said Twigg.

This marked the fifth con-

secutive year the Tigers have made a state appearance and the 10th overall. The only other sports team to have made more state finals ap-pearances is boys basketball with 12.

“The podium is where ev-ery team that competes wants to be at the conclusion of the season. It’s not easy to do,” Laughlin emphasized.

Crippes said after the team hit its routine, “it was a wait-ing game. The kids left every-thing they had on the blue mat.”

There were 76 small varsity teams who competed in five sectionals to earn a spot in the state finals.

Breese Central took the state title while Reed Custer was second.

The Paris team won the ICCA state championship for the small varsity division in January.


Paris High School cheer team and coaches show off the third place trophy they earned at the IHSA State Cheer Competition Saturday in at U.S. Cellular Coliseum in Bloomington.

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It took an overtime period, but the Chrisman Cardinals downed Paris 61-59 Saturday in front of a vocal crowd of fans from both schools. The traveling Route 1 Rivalry Trophy was presented by representatives of the Edgar County Shrine Club. The annual regular season showdown between the two schools will now be a Shrine game.

Cards take comeback winBY DAN [email protected]

The fourth meeting between Paris and Chrisman on the hardwood finally went the way of the Cardinals as Chris-man took an exciting 61-59 come-from-behind overtime win Saturday at Paris High School.

With the win, Chrisman took home the first traveling trophy in the Route One Rivalry, sponsored by the Edgar County Shrine Club.

Paris — which had won the previous three battles with their northern Edgar County rivals — was never able to ex-tend their lead beyond double digits in Saturday’s game. The Cardinals contin-ually came back to nearly tie the game on several occasions, all while dealing with foul trouble to Cardinal center Kyle Webster.

Seniors Salem Isaf and Chris Johnson paced the Tigers throughout the contest, accounting for 43 of the 59 Tiger points.

Missed free throws — especially in the overtime session — finally caught up with the Tigers as the game unfold-ed. The Cardinals relied on 15 points from Brian Porter and Ben Brinkley, while Bryce Krabel tallied a team high 21 points.

Both teams were used to one anoth-er after their three previous meetings, however, the scoring didn’t pick up until midway through the first quarter after center Salem Isaf entered the game. Bro-dy Spencer nailed a corner three to make it 7-4 with 3 minutes left. Chrisman con-tinued to fling long outlet passes down the court, only to be stopped in the lane by the Tigers. The Cardinals worked their way back to an 11-10 lead after the first 8 minutes of play.

The back and forth tussle between the rivals continued for the remainder of the half, with both teams alternating leads. Chrisman center Kyle Webster headed to the bench with three fouls with 4:32 remaining in the half. Isaf helped pace Paris with 6 points and Chrisman’s Brian Porter dropped in all 11 of his first half points in the quarter, to keep Chrisman within 3 points before the half, at 29-26.

Paris used a 6-0 run to jump out in front by 9 points at 35-26 in the third quarter. In the midst of it, Webster racked up his fourth foul with over 6 minutes left in the third frame but the Tigers were not able to take advantage of his defensive absence down low. Each team traded small runs on the score-board. Entering the fourth quarter, Paris had a 7 point lead at 42-35.

Webster came back into the game af-ter the Cardinals had the score at 42-40. Isaf paced Tiger scoring in the fourth,

while Chrisman’s Ben Brinkley began knocking down three-pointers to help Chrisman close the lead. Paris went up 53-49 with 2:14 left but the Cards tied things up at 53 with over a minute re-maining. A Paris turnover with 40 sec-onds left gave Chrisman the ball for a final shot but a pass fired into the post with 2.7 left deflected off the Cardinals and sent the game into overtime.

With neither team scoring to open the extra period, Salem Isaf had a chance to put Paris ahead at the 2:14 but missed both free throws. Webster then broke the tie with a layup on the next pos-session for Chrisman. Zack Burger fol-lowed by suffering the same fate as Isaf, missing both of his foul line attempts while Chrisman converted again on the ensuing possession.

Paris was forced to foul with under 40 seconds left to stop the clock and get the ball back. Chris Johnson broke the scoring draught for Paris and Chrisman

countered with another bucket. Down 61-57 with 10 seconds left, Paris scram-bled around trying to create a basket and did so as time ran out with Chrisman up two.

Paris Head Coach Shawn Nugent said the free throws really mattered.

“We had chances to put them away earlier in the game and didn’t do it, and the overtime free throws are an example of that.”

Paris was paced by Chris Johnson who netted a game high 24 points. Sa-lem Isaf added 19 for the Tigers.

CHRISMAN-(61) — Hale 0-0-0, Lawless 0-0-0, Heath 0-0-0, Bogard 0-0-0, Ford 0-0-0, Krabel 8-3-21, Webster 4-0-8, Porter 5-4-15, Brinkley 6-0-15, Napier 0-0-0, Burch 1-0-2, Hollingsworth 0-0-0 Totals: 24-7-61PARIS (59) — Eslinger 0-0-0, Johnson 8-7-24, Sutton 0-0-0, Spencer 3-0-7, Mullenix 0-0-0, Landrum 0-0-0, Anderson 1-0-2, Isaf 9-1-19, Gladding 0-0-0, Hopper 1-0-2, White 0-0-0, Lawson 0-0-0, Burger 2-1-5, Totals: 24-9-59Three Pointers: Paris 2 (Johnson 1, Spencer 1) Chrisman 6 (Brinkley 3, Krabel 2, Porter 1)

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Paris senior Chris Johnson goes up for a basket against Chrisman’s Brian Porter with the game tied at 53 in overtime in the first Route 1 Rivalry game Saturday at Paris High School. Chrisman took the win 61-59.

BY DAN [email protected]

The Paris Tigers team suffered the third straight home defeat and the fifth loss in a row at the hands of the West Vigo Vikings, 75-60 Tuesdsay at PHS.

The Tigers were on the receiving end of an outside shooting display by West Vigo’s Corey Vickers, who drained eight three point-ers in the contest.

Paris had a solid offen-sive display, at times not receiving much of a de-fensive threat from the Vikings. However, the Vi-kings used a bevy of scor-ing options from all areas of the court to keep the Tigers on their heels.

West Vigo continually tried to stretch the lead in the first quarter, with three-point attempts from Vickers finding the bot-tom of the net, giving the Vikings a 17-9 lead with three minutes left. Chris Johnson nailed a three and Isaf followed with two baskets, including a buzzer beating putback to keep Paris within striking dis-tance down 21-16.

Paris went to their usual long possessions to create baskets while West Vigo pulled away to an 8-10 point lead. The teams traded baskets midway through the second quar-ter, with West Vigo oddly turning away from their outside shooting and tak-ing what was available near the hoop. The Vikings held the ball the last 50 seconds of the half, and swished a three-pointer before the halftime horn went off.

With Paris down 37-27, each team played even on the scoreboard for most of the third quarter, with Paris never able to cut into the deficit, as Vickers re-sumed his shooting torrent from the first half with two threes in two tries, compli-menting West Vigo’s fast break scoring.

Paris’ Zack Burger had a strong quarter, netting seven points, and guard Gary Hopper confidently sank two three-pointers. “I thought Gary Hopper played well tonight defen-sively helped initiate our offense. He’s playing with more confidence as we ride the year out.” Men-tioned Paris Head Coach Shawn Nugent.

The Tigers were not able to bring the deficit to under 12 points for the re-mainder of the game. West Vigo began playing off the

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SPORTS CALENDAR

TODAY6:30 p.m. IESA Class 2A

boys basketball sectional Crestwood vs. Effingham St. Anthony at Effingham St. Anthony

IHSA Class 2A Girls Regional at Martinsville

6 p.m. Game 3 (1) Tri-County vs. winner game 1

7:30 p.m. Game 4 (4) Neoga vs. winner of game 2

THURSDAY4:30 p.m. Martinsville volleyball

at MayoIHSA Class 2A Martinsville

Regional7 p.m. Game 5 Winner game 3

vs. winner game 4 regional championship

6 p.m. Paris girls at Mt. Zion

FRIDAY6 p.m. Tri-County boys at Villa

Grove6 p.m. Salt Fork boys at Chris-

man6:15 p.m. Flora boys at Paris

SATURDAYTBA Tri-County boys at NTC

Shootout at CumberlandTBA Mayo 7th grade volleyball

at LEIC Tourney Oblong

SUNDAYParis Junior League games

played at Eveland Gym12:45 p.m. Cards vs. Tigers2 p.m. Eagles vs. Bears3:15 p.m. Colts vs.Lions4:30 p.m. Hawks vs. Panthers

MONDAY4:30 p.m. Shiloh volleyball at

Crestwood Eighth Grade Night

4:30 p.m. Mayo volleyball at Casey-Westfield

IHSA Class 3A Girls Regionalhosted by Paris High SchoolGame 1 7 p.m. (8) Decatur

Eisenhower vs. Decatur MacArthur at Eisenhower

TUESDAY4:30 p.m. Crestwood volleyball

at Marshall6 p.m. Charleston boys at Paris6 p.m. Tri-County boys at

Cumberland

6 p.m. Chrisman boys at Westville6 p.m. Mayo volleyball at TolonoIHSA Class 3A Girls Regionalhosted by Paris High School6 p.m. Game 2 (2) Charleston

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THURSDAY, FEB. 234:30 p.m. Crestwood volleyball

at Danville Northridge

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usually automatic Stephen Gostkowski hit the goal post on an extra point after the Patriots finally scored their first touchdown late in the third quarter.

Not when an onside kick failed and time finally seemed to be running short on a coach and quarterback in search of ring No. 5.

Somehow, though, they found a way to make magic one more time.

“It’s the microcosm of our

life, our season,” Edelman said. “Mental tougness, be-lieve, do your job, work hard and we’d be champions in the champion game.”

The Patriots never led in regulation, and needed every-thing they had to somehow get the game to overtime. Once there, there wasn’t any-one in the stadium wearing either team jersey that didn’t believe they were going to go all the way to score a winning touchdown when given the ball.

Not with No. 12 behind center, and a group of receivers who kept catching everything thrown their way.

“He was the same as he always is, cool, calm and collected,” receiver Danny Amendola said of Brady. “He’s the leader, the general, the best ever, and that is the end of the story.”

It was hard to argue with that before the game, and now there will be no argu-

ment at all. Five rings and four Super

Bowl MVP titles put the issue to rest for good, and the way this one was won simply adds an exclamation point to it all.

In the end, it won’t be a game remembered because the Falcons gave it away, though the Patriots wouldn’t have won without a crucial fumble by Ryan and a deci-sion to pass while in field goal range may have cost them a field goal that would have put it away.

No, this was simply Brady and Belichick in all their glory. They were simply unwilling to lose when all seemed lost.

On a magical night in Houston, the fifth one was the sweetest of them all.

(Tim Dahlberg is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at [email protected] or http://twitter.com/timdahlberg.)

DAHLBERG FROM PAGE 9A

EAGLE EIGHTH GRADERS PLAY FOR SECTIONAL TITLE


The Crestwood Eagles eighth grade basketball team will play for the IESA Class 2A sectional title at 6:30 p.m. today at Effingham St. Anthony against the host school. The team defeated Neoga 37-36 to win the regional and advance. Pictured first row, from left, are Zack Farnham, Reese Wagoner, Jude Sullivan, Mason Hutchings, Preston Porter, Lucas Rhoads, Conner Gore and Bryce Graber. Second row, from left, are Halle Rhoads, Mackenzie Hutchings, Nick Hutchings, Josh Warner, Logan Rhoads, JR Brinkerhoff, Jeffery Bennett, Kohlton Mills, Ben Lueken, Shelby Clark and Marissa Lawson. The winner of the game will advance to the IESA state finals in Mt. Pulaski High School Saturday.

Titans pick up 2nd straight winBY TIM [email protected]

KANSAS — the Tri-Coun-ty Titans boys basketball team picked up its second win in a row Tuesday, downing Hut-sonville-Palestine 63-51.

The victory comes on the heels of Monday’s exciting two point win in Hume over Cen-tralia’s Christ Our Rock Lu-theran 43-41.

The Titans and the Tigers had already split two games this season and this would be the rubber match.

After three quarters of close basketball, the Titans got a huge boost from one of its seniors in the fourth quarter sparking a surge to propel the home team to the 12-point victory.

Once again, the Titans went to a five man on, five man off rotation to begin the game and this time the scoring got a boost as the duo of Nick Tom-linson and Cody Richardson combined for 11 of TCT’s 16 first quarter points. The Tigers countered with the play of Na-than Kiger who scored seven of H-P’s 12 points to stay close as the Titans held a 16-12 lead.

The rotation plan continued in the second stanza for TCT as the duo of Dylan Campbell and TJ Bishop went to the in-side to score 8 of the Titans 13 points. H-P went to Riley Ogle to help with their spark scoring five of the Tigers 10 points in the frame to stay within strik-ing distance as TCT held a 29-22 lead at the break.

Coming out of the break, the Titans shooting went cold in the third quarter while the Tigers started red hot on a 6-0 run to start the third quarter and the TCT lead was down to just one point at 29-28. H-P

continued its surge returning to Kiger who scored eight of the Tigers 12 points in the frame.

Luckily for TCT, the Titans relied on the free throw line to score five of their seven points as they only hit one field goal in the quarter. Still, the Titans held a slim 36-34 lead heading into the final eight minutes.

In the final stanza, the Ti-tans exploded through the play of Kaleb Harper who put the team on his back hitting five shots in the frame and scoring 12 of TCT’s 27 fourth quarter points. The Titans also got some strong free throw shoot-ing late as the team went 6 of 9 in the frame. The Tigers tried their best to keep pace as Ki-ger and Devin Plew combined for 13 of H-P’s 17 points, but the Titans got key steals down the stretch to pull away for the twelve point win.

The Titans finished the night going 20 of 59 overall for 33.9 percent and 16 of 24 from the free throw line for 66.7 percent.

Kaleb Harper finished with 17 points off 6 of 9 shooting and a perfect 2 of 2 from the line. Dylan Campbell added 14 points on 4 of 11 shooting and 6 of 8 from the line while TJ Bishop had 12 points on 3 of 11 shooting and 6 of 8 from the line. One flaw on the night was handling the ball as the Ti-tans coughed it up 18 times.

The Tigers went 19 of 58 overall for 32.8 percent and had their struggles at the line going 8 of 22 for 36.4 percent. Nathan Kiger led the way with a game-high 21 points on 9 of 17 shooting while Devin Plew added 11 points on 4 of 7 shooting and Riley Ogle had 10 points on 2 of 15 shooting and 4 of 6 from the line. The Ti-

gers also had their trouble con-trolling the ball committing 16 turnovers.

The Titans (9-14 overall, 1-1 LOVC Southeast) will travel north to Broadlands on Friday evening for a game against the Villa Grove/Heritage Hawks. Tip time is set for 6 p.m. at Her-itage High School.

Hutsonvillle-Palestine (51) — Boles 0-0-0; Matthews 1-1-3; Fritchie 1-0-2; Kiger 9-2-21; Ogle 2-4-10; Plew 4-1-11; Gower 2-0-4; Hites 0-0-0 Totals 19-8-51Tri-County (63) — Reed 0-0-0; Tomlinson 2-0-6; Bishop 3-6-12; Harper 6-2-17; Lewis 2-1-5; Barry 0-0-0; C. Richardson 3-0-8; Neill 0-1-1; Campbell 4-6-14; Eads 0-0-0 Totals 20-16-63

H-P 12 10 12 17 - 51TCT 16 13 7 27 - 63Three-Pointers: H-P 5 (Ogle 2, Plew 2, Kiger) TCT 7 (Harper 3, Tomlinson 2, C. Richardson 2)

TRI-COUNTY 43, LUTHERAN 41Tri-County defeated Christ

Our Rock Lutheran Silver Stal-lions of Centralia 43-41 in a rare Monday game.

The Titans came out with a different strategy for this con-test substituting five different players in and out in various in-tervals and trying to play a trap-ping defense on the Stallions.

Both teams did have their struggles getting shots, but did manage to score nine points each to keep the score tied at 9-9 after eight minutes.

The Titans continued their strategy in the second quarter with balanced scoring to the tune of 13 points. The Stal-lions, however, used some strong passing and inside play going to Logan Briscoe off the bench scoring six of CORL’s 14 points to give the Stallions a 23-22 lead at halftime.

Once again, the Titans stood firm with their strategy of even distribution and frequent sub-stitution scoring nine more

points. The Stallions kept up their game plan getting a boost from Adam Heard as Heard scored six of CORL’s 11 points and the Stallions held a 34-31 lead heading into the final eight minutes.

The Stallions kept up their plan as Briscoe scored four more points in the fourth quarter before having to leave with an ankle injury late in the game. The Stallions scored seven points to still have a 41-39 lead. This was where Jack-son Barry went to work driving the baseline getting off an in-credible wrap around shot to tie the game at 41-41 with less than two minutes left in regula-tion. After a Stallions missed a shot, the Titans moved quick-ly down the court with strong passing finding Barry for the go-ahead bucket with less than 30 left to give the Titans the lead at 43-41. The Stallions had one final chance, but Tyler Fleeman’s eight foot shot fell short giving the Titans the two point win.

The Titans finished 19 of 49 for 38.7 percent and made their only free throw attempt of the game in the second quarter. Jackson Barry led with eight points on 4 of 5 shooting while Cody Richardson added seven and Kaleb Harper chipped in six. Tri-County turned the ball over 10 times.

Christ Our Rock Lutheran (41) - Britt 3-1-10; Heard 5-0-10; Fleeman 1-0-2; B. Easley 0-2-2; Briscoe 6-0-12; Bent 2-1-5 Totals 17-4-41Tri-County (43) - Reed 1-0-2; Tomlinson 1-0-3; Bishop 2-0-5; Harper 3-0-6; Lewis 2-0-4; Barry 4-0-8; Richardson 2-1-7; Neill 1-0-2; Campbell 2-0-4; Eads 1-0-3 Totals 19-1-43

CORL 9 14 11 7 - 41TCT 9 13 9 12 - 43Three-Pointers: CORL 3 (Britt 3) TCT 4 (Tomlin-son, Bishop, Richardson, Eads)

prairiepress.net | 217-921-3216 | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2017 | 11AROUTE 1 RIVALRY

PARIS, CHRISMAN SQUARE OFF IN FIRST EDGAR COUNTY SHRINE ROUTE 1 RIVALRY

Photos by Michelle Jacobs/The Prairie Press

Tiger Salem Isaf goes up for two points against Chrisman’s Kyle Webster in second half action.

Paris cheerleaders entertain fans before the opening tipoff of Saturday’s first Edgar County Shrine Club Route 1 Rivalry game.

Salem Isaf drives around three Chrisman players in second half action Saturday.

Brian Porter moves around Tiger Salem Isaf in first half action Saturday in the Edgar County Shrine’s Route 1 Rivalry game. Porter netted 15 point for the Cardinals, who had lost to Paris in three previous matchups this basketball season.

The Paris High School cheer team was honored before the Route 1 Rivalry game Saturday for taking third place in the IHSA state cheer finals.

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The PHS Pack celebrated costume night at the Route 1 Rivalry game.

Chrisman’s Ben Brinkley goes up for a shot in Saturday’s Shrine Route 1 Rivalry game at Paris High School.

Paris and Chrisman band members joined to play music at Saturday’s Route 1 Rivalry game. The Edgar County Shrine Club sponsored the contest and a traveling tro-phy, presented to Chrisman after their over-time win against Paris.

The combined bands of Paris

and Chris-manprovided

pre-game and halftime enter-

tainment for the near capacity crowd at Sat-

urday’s rivalry game.

Junior Brody Spencer looks to pass inside to Salem Isaf in Saturday’s Chris-man-Paris game.

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VILLANOVA, Pa. (AP) — Josh Hart scored 25 points and No. 2 Villanova held off a late Georgetown run in a 75-64 victory Tuesday night.

With Hart on a second-half scoreless skid, the Hoyas (13-12, 4-8 Big East) sliced a 17-point deficit to two and had the Wildcats reeling at the Pavilion. L.J. Peak buried a 3 and Rodney Pryor hit a jumper to key a 17-4 run that pulled the Hoyas to 60-58 with 3:49 left.

The Hoyas, swept by Villanova in three games last season, seemed poised to pull off the upset they needed to try and make a run at the NCAA Tournament.

The Hoyas just couldn’t stop Hart in the clutch. Hart, a national player of the year candidate, scored 17 points in the first half and missed his first seven shots in the second. But he buried a 3 to make it a seven-point lead and turned a steal into a layup that made it 70-60 and sent the crowd into a frenzy.

The Wildcats (23-2, 10-2) held on and won the 79th game in the series between these decades-long rivals.

Peak led Georgetown with 21 points and Pryor had 20.

No. 15 KENTUCKY 92, LSU 85LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Wenyen Gabriel

scored a career-high 23 points and Malik Monk also had 23 for Kentucky.

The Wildcats (19-5, 9-2 Southeastern Conference) won for just the second time in five games and had to withstand the Tigers’ late rally that got them within 91-85 with 14 seconds remaining. Monk’s free throw with 8 seconds left sealed a win that followed Kentucky’s 22-point loss at No. 17 Florida on Saturday.

Gabriel provided the initial offensive boost and finished 7 of 11 from the field including three 3-pointers to beat his previous career best of 15. He also grabbed eight rebounds, in-cluding three offensive, as Kentucky controlled the boards 40-26.

Monk bounced back from an 11-point outing to make 8 of 15 from the field with four 3s. De’Aaron Fox had 16 points and Isaiah Briscoe 14 for Kentucky.

Antonio Blakeney had a season-high 31 points and Brandon Sampson added 17 for the Tigers (9-14, 1-10), who have lost 10 straight for the first time since 2011.

No. 17 FLORIDA 72, GEORGIA 60ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Chris Chiozza scored

15 points and Florida recovered after blowing a 16-point lead.

Kasey Hill had 12 points for Florida (19-5, 9-2 Southeastern Conference), which has won five straight.

Yante Maten led Georgia (13-11, 4-7) with 19 points. The Bulldogs suffered their third straight loss, each to a ranked opponent.

Consecutive 3-pointers by Devin Robinson and Justin Leon helped Florida stretch the advantage to 30-14.

ALABAMA 90, No. 19 SOUTH CAROLINA 86, 4OT

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Riley Norris scored six of his 11 points in the fourth and final overtime, including the go-ahead free throws with 56 seconds left, and Alabama overcame a career night by South Carolina’s Sindarius Thornwell.

Thornwell finished with career highs of 44 points and 21 rebounds. He made 25 free throws, surpassing LSU great “Pistol” Pete Maravich’s mark of 21 in a Southeastern Con-ference game. But it was not enough for South Carolina (19-5, 9-2).

Alabama (14-9, 7-4) had a 17-point lead in the first half and a 12-point edge with less than 5 minutes to go, watching the Gamecocks rally back to force the extra periods.

Avery Johnson Jr. and Ar’Mond Davis had career highs of 23 points and 19 points for Alabama, which beat a ranked SEC opponent on the road for the first time since winning at No. 4 Mississippi State, 77-73, on Feb. 21, 2004.

PENN ST. 70, No. 21 MARYLAND 64STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Lamar Stevens

scored 16 of his 25 points in the second half for Penn State.

Tony Carr added 14 points and Mike Watkins had 10 for the Nittany Lions (13-12, 5-7 Big Ten) who snapped a two-game skid and beat their fourth Top 25 opponent since last February.

Justin Jackson and Kevin Huerter scored 12 points each and Melo Trimble added 11 for the Terrapins (20-4, 8-3) who lost their second in a row.

The Nittany Lions played stingy defense early and led for all but 1:48 and by as many as 14 points with 9:59 remaining.

No. 22 BUTLER 68, MARQUETTE 65MILWAUKEE (AP) — Andrew Chrabascz scored

13 of his 21 points in the second half and Avery Woodson scored 17 points in his first start in more than three weeks for Butler.

The Bulldogs (19-5, 8-4 Big East) snapped a two-game losing streak after tweaking their starting lineup, with regulars Tyler Lewis and Kelan Martin coming off the bench. Kethan Savage joined Woodson in the starting lineup.

Chrabascz followed two free throws with a layup with 49 seconds left to give Butler an eight-point lead.

Markus Howard had 19 points for Marquette (15-9, 6-6), including a 3 with 1 second left.

FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) — After only one game as Alabama’s offensive coordinator, Steve Sarkisian is heading to the NFL.

To work with MVP quarterback Matt Ryan and the league’s highest-scoring offense, no less.

Less than 24 hours after Kyle Shanahan left to become head coach of the San Francisco 49ers , the Falcons announced Tuesday that Sarkisian would be his replacement.

The stunning move came with Sarkisian less than a month into what was to be his first full season running Alabama’s offense, a job he took over for the national championship game in place of Lane Kiffin . But Falcons coach Dan Quinn said he’s had his eye on Sarkisian since

last spring, figuring it was only a matter of time before Shanahan moved on to a team of his own.

“I knew how good Kyle is,” Quinn said. “I wanted to make sure I had contingency plans in place.”

The two have known each other since Sarki-sian coached at Washington and Quinn was Seat-tle’s defensive coordinator. Sarkisian stopped by Atlanta last year to check out the Falcons’ offseason workouts, as well as training camp.

The two have known each other since Sarki-sian coached at Washington and Quinn was Seat-tle’s defensive coordinator. Sarkisian stopped by Atlanta last year to check out the Falcons’ offseason workouts, as well as training camp.

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three point line on defense, inviting the Tigers to hoist up open three pointers in-stead of running their of-fense. The Vikings remained quick down the floor, even towards the end of the quar-ter. Both squads emptied their benches as the Vikings waited out the clock.

Paris was led in scoring on the night from Salem Isaf with 20, followed by Burger with 16.

“Given their front line size I thought our two bigs played very well tonight, given the amount of time we asked them to play,” Paris Coach Shawn Nugent said.

West Vigo — (75) Vickers 10-2-30, J. Lautenschlager 2-3-8, Hanning 0-0-0, Stoner 0-0-0, Dickerson 0-0-0, Page 4-0-8, Kernstein 3-0-7, Fuller 0-0-0, Sappingfield 3-2-9, Joy 0-0-0, Yates 0-0-0, Salyers 0-0-0, T. Lautenschlager 5-1-11, Deckard 1-0-2 Totals: 28-8-75Paris-(60) — Eslinger 0-0-0, Johnson 3-0-8, Sutton 0-0-0, Spencer 2-0-5, Mullenix 0-0-0, Landrum 0-0-0, Anderson 1-0-2, Isaf 8-4-20, Gladding 0-0-0, Hopper 2-0-6, White 0-0-0, Lawson 0-0-0, Burger 7-2-16, Whitacre 0-3-3 Totals: 23-9-60

West Vigo 21 16 19 19 75Paris 16 11 16 17 60Three Pointers: Paris 5, (Spencer 1, Hopper 2, Johnson 2) West Vigo 11 (J. Lautenschlager 1, Sappingfield 1, Kernstein 1, Vickers 8)

RED HILL 60, PARIS 59A game of wild momen-

tum swinging runs in the second half saw the visiting Red Hill Salukis in front on the scoreboard when the buzzer sounded 60-59 in a Monday night makeup game in Paris.

Both squads came out firing in the first quarter, as Paris got the bulk of their scoring from Salem Isaf and Chris Johnson near the basket.

The Salukis returned the favor with drives and run-ners in the paint as well. To cap off the quarter, Johnson was fouled shooting a three with 1.1 seconds left and made all three free throws.

Up 21-15 into the sec-ond, Paris capped their 8-0 run giving them a

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CHRISMAN — Chris-man boys basketball team took an important step to-wards their first Vermilion Valley Conference cham-pionship in school history Tuesday, defeating Oak-wood, 64-61.

Down seven points en-tering the second quarter, the Cardinals (18-5 over-all, 9-1 VVC) faced a defi-cit for the majority of the game against the Comets (11-12, 3-8 VVC).

Chrisman was trailing at the end of each of the first three quarters, but stormed back to gain the lead early in the fourth frame. The Cardinals in-creased their advantage by as much as nine, mainly through senior Brian Por-ter’s game-high 29 points, 14 of which were in the fi-nal quarter.

Down seven and seeking a way to quickly put them-

selves back in the game, Oak-wood turned to junior guard Skylar Bolton, who knocked down two three-pointers on successive possessions to de-crease the Chrisman lead to one.

Bolton’s late shooting was to no avail; Porter and senior Parker Burch each knocked down late free throws to seal the win after the Comets be-gan to foul.

With three games remain-ing in the regular season, Chrisman retained their first-place position in the VVC standings with the victory.

In addition, Hoopeston, who Chrisman led on a tie-breaker for the conference lead entering Tuesday, fell to Bismarck-Henning, leaving the Cardinals with a one-game lead on both the Corn-jerkers and Blue Devils.

Chrisman plays their Homecoming game Friday night against Salt Fork, seek-ing their 10th conference win.

28-15 lead at the 6:02 mark. Towards the middle of the quarter, the Tigers entered a scoreless streak, and only had six points the rest of the way. Red Hill chipped back into the lead with a three pointer and two baskets with under a minute left, entering halftime down 34-25.

Once the second half start-ed, a totally different game from the first half began to un-fold. Red Hill made the half ’s first basket at the 5:56 mark, and then went on an 8-0 run. Paris began to hurry their possessions up somewhat, resulting in low percentage shots.

Isaf made the first bucket of the half for Paris, and Red Hill countered with two straight threes, making it 36-35 half-way through the quarter. A spate of Paris turnovers in the last minutes of third allowed Red Hill to piece together another burst of scoring, cul-minating in a 47-38 deficit for the Tigers.

Red Hill took some of their momentum from the third and carried it over to the 4th quarter, going on a 6-0 run a minute in before Paris called a timeout. Paris responded with their own 7-0 run, breaking their almost five minute scor-ing draught and forcing a Red Hill timeout with 4:32 left.

An Isaf bucket and a Gary Hopper three pulled it to 55-52 Red Hill at the 1:55 mark. The Salukis scored on the next possession and Brody Spen-cer answered with a three pointer at the 1:20 mark. Down 57-55, Chris Johnson stole the ball and was fouled hard on his full court break, splitting the free throws.

After each team fouled one another, Zack Burger was fouled at 17.8 with a chance for a traditional three point play. He sunk the free throw putting Paris up 59-58. The Salukis scored with 9.3 left and proceeded to foul the Ti-gers to force a fresh inbound with less time on the clock. With 3.5 seconds remaining, Johnson hoisted up a three pointer that fell short, ending the game.

Paris was led in scoring by Salem Isaf with 19 and Chris

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1 sheet refrigerated pie pastry 1 egg 1 tablespoon heavy whipping cream 1/4 cup shredded Parmesan cheese, optional

FILLING: 1 tablespoon butter 2 teaspoons olive oil 1 medium potato, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch pieces 2 small carrots, cut into 1/2-inch pieces 1 small onion, chopped 1/4 cup finely chopped celery 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour 1-1/2 cups chicken broth 2 cups cubed cooked chicken (1/2-inch) 1/3 cup frozen peas 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream 2 teaspoons minced fresh parsley 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt 1/8 teaspoon pepper

Preheat oven to 425°. On a lightly floured surface, unroll pastry sheet. Cut sixteen hearts with a floured 2-in. heart-shaped cookie cutter. Place on an ungreased baking sheet.

In a small bowl, whisk egg and cream; brush over

hearts. If desired, sprinkle with cheese. Bake 8-10 minutes or until golden brown.

For filling, in a large skillet, heat butter and oil over me-dium-high heat. Add vegetables; cook and stir until tender.

Stir in flour until blended; gradually whisk in broth. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly; cook and stir 2 minutes or until thickened. Stir in the remaining ingredients; heat through. Spoon into four 10-oz. ramekins or bowls; top with pastries. Yield: 4 servings.

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Good morning and hello again from the residents and staff here at the Highland Manor, also known as The Paris High Rise.

I hope you had a blessed Christmas season and used Merry Christmas in your greetings.

Hey, baseball fans, it’s only about 4 weeks until spring training will be in full swing.

As an old player and coach, there is just a special feeling early on when the grass begins to move and grow under your feet.

I really believe the Chi-cago Cubs have a very good chance to repeat as champi-ons again this season.

Both my Pirates and the Cardinals don’t seem to have done a whole lot to improve their teams.

Well, this isn’t a sports col-umn so let’s get into what’s

been going on here at the Manor the last couple of months.

Back on Halloween Night our residents hosted their

annual Trick or Treat for the children. This is a big event for us. We hold it in our large community room and nearly 200 kids come through as the residents pass out treats.

Darlene Booher organized this and many thanks go to Darlene. God bless you and thank you.

For our bus dinner trip in November, we traveled a little bit west to Chesterville, where we enjoyed a nice Amish dinner buffet at the Korner Café.

The folks there were out-standing hosts, the fellow-ship was great and, as usual, the bus ride was all kinds of fun. Try this one sometime.

Another highlight during November was a tailgate party hosted by Bev Lawlyes and Mike Haase.

Old Mike’s Green Bay Packers were really dominat-ed by Bev’s Colts and by the time The Pack woke up, the game was over.

By the way, as I write this, it will be the Packers and the Falcons in the NFC Cham-pionship with the winner going to the Super Bowl. Oh no, Atlanta won.

Our bunco games for the month were also well attended and fun for all who played.

Ella Stewart won the first round and overall score, plus the most five pointers and she shared the high individ-

ual game score with Maria Hooker.

Hooker also rolled the most buncos, while Debbie Clearwater had the low score for the evening. Sorry Deb.

One of the movies we showed last month was a Discovery film called “Santa Paws,” a cute story about a dog who was Santa’s helper.

At our second movie, we did our annual showing of the classic, “White Christ-mas.” This movie brings a good crowd each year.

Our Tai-Chi classes attract a nice group each week.

Bonnie Hess leads our group in some traditional ex-ercises, and your truly, leads the group in some baseball and softball basics.

As I stated in previous articles, our Bible study con-tinues to grow, and we had 23 folks attend just before Christmas.

This is a lively, energetic bunch who really study the scriptures. We thank the Lord for this study.

Bingo is still our most well attended activity, and it follows our monthly potluck supper.

At our last game, Mary Davis won the coverall with Ella Stewart winning the door prize drawing.

Our sewing and craft group are off and running. They do all kinds of neat things and I noticed some of the ladies knitting stocking hats, making cup holders, crocheting, embroidering and doing lots of different things.

The most unique item I noticed though was a shop-ping bag made from grocery bags. I haven’t seen anything like that before.

These gals get together a

Seventeen years of my life were spent attending classes at school. I know what you’re

thinking. The answer is no. I didn’t have to repeat first or sec-ond grade multiple years. I’m including five years of college.

Many are the individuals among us who accumulated that much school attendance. Some go beyond. An interesting discussion is to discuss teachers from our past, especially teachers who were unique with certain pecu-liarities. Most were excellent instructors, but they featured memorable idiosyncrasies.

A good example is my high school freshman English teacher. She wore reading glasses, the kind that hung suspended from her neck, y’know. She made use of them when up-close reading was required, but most of the time they dangled atop her collar bone. She constantly worked fidgety fingers from one hand or another, fon-dling the necklace (lanyard) that held the glasses on a b-b chain. That was 60 years ago. I can still visualize her fingers and the clicking noise she generated. At times, I wanted to rise from my seat and place her glasses on her face. It was distracting.

There was a professor in college who wore a loose tie to class every day. It was nev-er secured with a clasp or tie-tac. He paced slowly back and forth while lecturing, often pausing to point out places on wall maps or writing on the chalkboard. Much of the time, his tie hung wrong-side-out. Sometimes it fluttered. It was so tempting to disrupt the class and attach a clasp to hold that tie in place.

We had an elementary teacher who used a pet phrase so frequently that it was laughable. Nearly every sentence that flowed from his mouth ended with “don’tcha see?” He was fun to imitate.

One teacher-coach was a heckuva nice guy and highly admired. He died from a heart attack much too early in life. It hurts me to make fun of him for those reasons. The guy had a serious stuttering problem at an early age. Speech therapists worked to overcome it. They taught him to use a crutch. This is, a catch word to say when sens-ing a stutter. The word was “here”. It was used constantly. He would say to a baseball player, “Bill – here, here – this pitcher is wild, so – here – take a strike or two – here, here – when you’re batting. He might – here, here – walk you. Keep – here, here – that in mind.”

There was also a professor who never had an idiosyncra-sy in class, but who became angrily frustrated at students in the science building. An elevator transported traffic from floor to floor. Between classes, small crowds would gather and push the elevator buttons. I was warned by another student never to push the button more than once. This professor would go into a tirade. I witnessed his ire more than once. The elevator was slow because it was stopping on other floors. Invariably, an impatient kid would push the button two or three different times.

“I suppose you think that elevator is going to come down faster,” he’d shout, sticking his face and glaring eyes mere inches from the student’s face. “When did you become stupid? Were you born that way?”

The professor’s outrage was a weekly event.

There was another profes-sor, who, for some reason, slobbered while lecturing. Maybe his partial or fake

Valentine’s Day is Tuesday and what better time to celebrate family with a special dinner with your children or

grandchildren.While many couples may

take advantage of Valentine’s Day for a date night away from family, why not take advantage of the celebration of family love? Children — especially younger ones — will enjoy a special family dinner.

I’m sharing recipes that Don and I used for his

grandchildren when they were young and we were still living in Missouri. Don enjoyed being in the kitchen and even as a young boy, grandson Corey enjoyed puttering around with Grandpa. His oldest granddaugh-ter, Chloe, also enjoyed the time together.

While there’s no need to make a big fuss with setting the table, I subscribe to the Cindy Belt school of entertaining. Making a table setting look nice just makes everything better.

Of course there are lots of ideas on Pinterest, but I found a white tablecloth, a bright red table runner and red placemats make a festive table. I loved sprinkling different flavors of Hershey’s kisses on the table runner along with red glitter hearts. The grands love it.

While there were sweets prepared, we also enjoyed a couple of Don’s favorite recipes. He loved chicken pot pie. The recipe I am includ-ing isn’t terribly difficult, thanks to using puff pastry found in your grocer’s freezer, two cups of cooked chicken from a rotisserie chicken we picked up at the grocer store and veggies we cut in advance. The kids and I used a small heart cookie cutter to cut 16 small hearts for the individual pot pies. We had ramekins in our kitchen, but if you don’t, use small bowls. The pot pies are hearty enough for teens and adults.

Younger children might enjoy homemade quesadilla. We always made ours with chicken and here again, the rotisserie chicken can be used, making preparation easier. If you don’t have a quesadilla maker, a heavy skillet does just as well.

The Lots of Love Cherry Pies recipe makes the cherry filling from scratch. If you don’t want to bother, pick up cherry pie filling at the store. The kids will still love it.

Take time out this weekend — or on Valen-tine’s Day — to enjoy a special meal with all of your family and make memories.

(Nancy Zeman is the editor and part-owner of The Prairie Press. Email her at [email protected].)

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Spread the loveCelebrate Valentine’s Day by sharing a meal with your family


A festive table setting can make spending Valentine’s Day with your loved ones a special occasion.


Pot pies made with a little extra love this Valentines Day.


A homemade treat to make and share with your family.

LOTS OF LOVE CHERRY PIE

3-3/4 cups all-purpose flour 3/4 teaspoon salt 1 cup cold butter, cubed 3/4 cup shortening 9 to 10 tablespoons cold water

FILLING: 1/3 cup sugar 1/4 cup water 2 tablespoons cornstarch 1 tablespoon lemon juice 3 cups fresh or frozen pitted dark

sweet cherries, thawed, halved 1/8 teaspoon almond extract 1 egg, lightly beaten Coarse sugar

In a large bowl, combine flour and salt; cut in butter and shortening until crumbly.

Gradually add water, tossing with a fork until dough holds together when pressed. Divide dough in half; form each into a disk. Wrap separately in plastic wrap; refrigerate 1 hour or until easy to handle.

In a large saucepan, com-bine sugar, water, cornstarch and lemon juice until smooth. Add cherries. Bring to a boil; cook and stir 1 minute or until thickened. Remove from heat. Stir in extract. Set aside to cool.

Preheat oven to 400°. On a lightly floured surface, roll one portion of dough to 1/8-in. thickness. Cut out 12 hearts with a floured 4-in. heart-shaped cookie cutter. Transfer half of the hearts to a parch-

ment-lined baking sheet. Using a floured 3/4-in. heart-shaped cookie cutter, cut out small hearts from the remaining hearts. (Discard small hearts or reserve for another use.)

Spoon 2 tablespoons cherry mixture onto the center of each solid heart. Brush edges of pastry with egg. Top with cutout hearts; press edges with a fork to seal. Brush tops with egg; sprinkle with coarse sugar.

Bake 15-20 minutes or until crust is golden brown and filling is bubbly. While tarts are baking, repeat with remaining dough and filling.

Let pies stand 5 minutes before removing to wire racks. Serve warm. Yield: 1 dozen.

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few times each week and, oh boy, do they have a good time.

We also have a nice library and puzzle room, scrabble games, card playing, a nice sitting and TV room, laundry, beauty shop and indoor mail boxes.

Before closing, let me men-tion a couple of other things.

Every Thursday evening, our local VFW brings in our supper to anyone who choos-es to order. We enjoy these, and being a veteran myself, we really appreciate these meals. By the way, there is a minimal cost.

I would also like to thank our maintenance staff. These guys are here to serve any of the residents with many needs and really do a great job.

Our annual Christmas party and dinner brought out a big crowd, as it usually does.

We had ham, turkey, chick-en & noodles and dressing

along with all the many fruits, vegetables, casseroles and desserts.

Following dinner, there was the reading of the real Christmas story and following that some various games.

Our special guests for the day were the Clarksville Trumpeteers who again gave and outstanding program.

This group features George and Nancy Orin and Bob Montgomery.

Well folks, I have rattled on about long enough.

Stop by and take a look at our Model Apartment. It’s open 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday – Friday.

In closing remember this – “Treat others the way you would like to be treated.”

Talk to you again in a few weeks.

God bless you.(Mike Haase is a lifelong

resident of Paris who coached baseball and other sports teams. He is a resident of Highland Manor.)

teeth didn’t fit correctly. Anyway, the students on the front row always re-ceived a shower.

A friend told me about a one-room school teacher back in the early fifties who kept a sack lunch in his car. An hour was set aside for lunchtime and play. The kids really liked this guy, because he always napped

in his car after eating. He usually woke up two hours later, thus allowing them a much extended play period. It also made an easier work day for him.

One of my favorites was a teacher-principal who wore nice clothes, but often had splatters of cow manure on his trouser legs. He’d feed his cows at home after dressing for school.

A much-loved teacher who recently died ad-

dressed his students by their first and middle names. The middle name was always Eugene. He did this for more than 30 years. He was my wife’s sixth-grade instructor. Say hi to Nancy Eugene when you see her.

(Allen “Big Al” Engle-bright is a retired school-teacher and storyteller. Contact him at The Prairie Press, 101 N. Main, Paris, Ill., 61944.)


TOPS #1563 members lost a total of 31 pounds in January. Great job.

The group met Jan. 21 and Jan. 27. Best losers were Jessi-ca Ford and Pat Toensing at the Jan. 21 meeting and Ruth Ann Knight for Jan. 27. Jea-nette Levellie was the KOPS winner for the both dates.

Special awards given at the meetings: Elaine Weddle lost her fourth 10 pounds; Jean McDaniel lost her third 10 pounds; Judy Toensing was the best loser for January; Marcella Coe won the free dues for January; top walker over those two weeks was Ruth Ann Knight; winners of the “Let’s Get Moving” Draw-ing were Jill Hoffman and Marcella Coe; and winners of the food chart drawing

were Jeanette Levellie and Jean Daniels.

The forbidden food select-ed Jan. 21 was white potatoes and cookies for Jan 27.

A general discussion was held Jan. 21 about the impor-tance of drinking water with a recommendation members drink two glass first thing in the morning, drink one glass before each meal and one glass before going to bed, but each member has to decide what works in each personal situation.

Sue English challenged everyone to give up sugar for the week between Jan. 21 and Jan. 27. Several members did cut down considerably on their consumption, and Coralie Smittkamp won the drawing.

Jeanette Levellie discussed “Good/Bad Food” Jan. 27. She shared several examples

and members were to list good or bad. She encouraged members to distinguish if we are good or bad in our food choices. Levellie also stressed it is all about balance.

The challenge issued for the week following the Jan. 27 meeting is to drink four cups (8 ounces) of water dai-ly.

It was announced Glenda Berry is presenting the pro-gram at the first February meeting.

TOPS #IL1563 meets each Thursday morning at the Highland Manor Com-munity Room, with weigh-ins from 8 to 8:45 a.m. and the meeting starts promptly at 9 a.m. Those interested in this weight loss support group may contact Jo Ellen Edmonds at 251-4722 for more information or visit a meeting..


The first 2017 meeting and weigh-in for Tops #IL1563 was Jan. 7.

Chapter leader Sue Ben-nett announced a great ac-complishment for Decem-ber 2016, with a total group weight loss of 22 pounds.

Members were told the next forbidden food is noo-dles or pasta, beyond the rec-ommended serving.

Sue English presented a program on “The Ten Com-mandments of Weight Loss:” thou shall not diet, thou shall develop a sensible food plan,

thou shall cope with challeng-es, thou shall exercise, thou shall set reasonable goals, thou shall record food intake and exercise, thou shall man-age emotional eating, thou shall develop techniques for stress, thou shall show social support and thou shall avoid the attitude trap—put your mind over platter.

A good lifestyle for all.Bennett reviewed TOPS

Corporate’s “Million Pound Loss Challenge.” To make this goal, members are en-couraged to journal food in-take. Members are also asked either lower the daily calorie intake by 100 calories or to ex-ercise daily sufficient to burn 100 calories.

She encouraged everyone to journal for the week, and a journal review is planned for the next meeting.

TOPS Il #1563 met again Thursday morning, Jan. 12, with 21 members weighing in and 15 staying for the meet-ing.

The chapter had five mem-bers who walked or exer-cised during the week. Jean Daniels was named the best loser, Ruth Ann Knight was the top walker, Marcella Coy won the walking drawing and Jean Daniels won the food chart drawing.

Cookies were selected during the forbidden food drawing.

Bennett led a review of

members’ food journals for the prior week. Members were asked to share personal areas that need improvement but also, tricks they have found useful for weight loss. She encouraged members to continue journaling as the chapter begins the Million Pound Loss Journey.

TOPS #Il 1563 meets each Thursday morning at the Highland Manor Communi-ty Room, weigh-ins are from 8 a.m. until 8:45 a.m. and the meeting starts prompt-ly at 9 a.m. Those interested in this weight loss support group may contact Jo Ellen Edmonds at 251-4722 for more information or visit a meeting.


Jack Kendall, of Paris, recently starting working as an honors adviser in

the honors college at Purdue Uni-versity, La-fayette, Ind.

A 2008 graduate of Paris High S c h o o l ,

Kendall earned his masters of science degree in high-er education and student affairs in May 2016 from Indiana State University. During his studies at ISU, Kendall participated in a study tour to South Africa where he and his colleagues visited institutions of higher education. There he learned more regarding both the structure and value of high-er education and grasped the post-apartheid culture of South Africa.

Kendall earned his bach-elor of fine arts cum laude from the University of Illi-

nois in May 2013 with ma-jors in both photography and sculpture. During his studies at Illinois, he visit-ed the African continent for the first time, traveling to a remote village in Cameroon for three weeks. His role was to photo-document the trip as a team of student en-gineers developed clean wa-ter solutions for the village.

He held several student affairs positions at Illinois including resident adviser, orientation co-chair and conference coordinator. It was through these positions he discovered a passion for serving students and work-ing in the college environ-ment. This eventually led to his decision to pursue graduate school and study the field of student affairs and higher education.

Kendall is the son of Bar-bara Kendall of Paris and Colin Kendall of Coventry, England. He is the grand-son of the late Dr. W.J. and Rosemary Blumthal of Par-is.


Janique Tyler of Paris grad-uated with highest honors in December with a degree in the food science division of the University of Illinois College of Agriculture. She finished her academic career with a perfect straight A (4.0)

average.Tyler began her employ-

ment with PepsiCo of Bar-rington as a food scientist. She is assigned to the Tropi-cana division. Her work will include foreign and domestic travels.

Janique is the daughter of Frank and Jana Tyler of Paris.

Kendall hired by PurdueUniversity as honors adviser

Tyler graduates from UIUC

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Community Bible Church hired David Johns as the associate pastor Jan. 29 through a unanimous vote of the congregation.

Johns interned for the church last summer and has served the church since then. The job fulfills his desire to work full-time in the ministry, but he was not always sure what that po-sition might be.

He brings a unique set of life ex-periences to the job. Both he and his wife, Becky Johns, grew up overseas as children of missionaries. He was born in Turkey, and lived there until he was 18. She moved to Hungary right before her first birthday and remained until she was 17.

They met when David Johns went to Hungary to participate in Word of Life’s Bible Institute. She was finish-ing her second year of Bible Institute at the same time he was starting his first.

Because they had both grown up in overseas missions, the Johns as-sumed that was their future in the ministry. Throughout seminary and their internship at Community Bi-ble this past summer, the plan was always to go into overseas missions at some point.

“As a missionary kid, you’re al-ways trained to think that if you

wanted to go into ministry, you had to go into overseas missions,” David Johns said.

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At the end of the Super Bowl on Sunday night, one or more professional football players were hailed for their valor, for their guts, for their devotion to their teammates.

They will be called heroes.And more than 100 million

people will be watching.But because, predictably,

those laudatory words were thrown around so casually on Sunday, perhaps we can take a few minutes here to address an act of genuine valor that happened exactly 70 years ago today.

It wasn’t televised. There were no sponsors.

On February 3, 1943, an Army transport ship called the Dorchester, carrying American soldiers through the icy North Atlantic on

their way to serve in World War II, was about 100 miles off the coast of Greenland in rough sea. More than 900 people were on board.

Many of them were little more than boys -- young sol-diers and sailors who had nev-er been so far from home. The journey had been arduous al-ready, with the men crammed into claustrophobic, all-but-airless sleeping quarters be-low deck, constantly ill from the violent lurching of the ship.

In the blackness of night, a German submarine fired tor-pedoes at the Dorchester.

One of the torpedoes hit the middle of the ship. There was pandemonium on board. The Dorchester swiftly began to sink.

The soldiers and sailors, many of them wakened from

sleep by the attack, searched desperately in the dark for life jackets and lifeboats and a route to safety.

With them on the ship were four military chaplains, from four disparate religions.

They were Father John Washington, born in Newark, New Jersey, who was Cath-olic; the Rev. Clark Poling, born in Columbus, Ohio, who was ordained in the Re-formed Church in America; Rabbi Alexander Goode, born in Brooklyn, New York, who was Jewish; and the Rev. George Fox, born in Lew-istown, Pennsylvania, who was Methodist.

In the chaos onboard, ac-cording to multiple accounts by survivors of the attack, the four men tried to calm the soldiers and sailors and lead them to evacuation points.

The chaplains were doing what chaplains do: providing comfort and guidance and hope.

“I could hear men crying, pleading, praying,” a soldier named William B. Bednar later recalled. “I could also hear the chaplains preaching courage. Their voices were the only thing that kept me going.”

With the Dorchester rapid-ly taking on water, there were not enough life jackets readily available for every man on the ship.

So, when the life jackets ran out, the four chaplains re-moved their own, and handed them to soldiers who didn’t have them.

More than 600 men died that night in the frigid seas, but some 230 were rescued. And some of the survivors, in

official accounts given to the Army, and in interviews after the war, reported what they saw as the ship went down:

Those four chaplains, men of different faiths but believ-ing in the same God, their arms linked, standing on the deck together in prayer.

They willingly gave up their futures, their lives, to try to help the men placed in their care by the Army.

The U.S. Army War College has in its records a narrative of what happened that night. One of the men who survived the sinking of the Dorchester, a Navy officer named John J. Mahoney, is quoted as recall-ing that before heading for the lifeboats, he hurried in the di-rection of his quarters.

Rabbi Goode, seeing him, asked where he was going. Mahoney said he had for-

gotten his gloves, and want-ed to retrieve them before being dropped into the cold sea.

Rabbi Goode said Ma-honey should not waste fleeting time, and offered Ma-honey his own gloves.

When Mahoney said he couldn’t deprive Rabbi Goode of his gloves, the rab-bi said it was all right, he had two pairs.

Only later, according to military historians, did Ma-honey realize of course, Rab-bi Goode was not carrying an extra pair of gloves. He had already decided he was going down with the ship.

According to the Army War College account, another sur-vivor of the Dorchester, John Ladd, said of the four chap-lains’ selfless act:

“Hello. My name is Jea-nette. This is my first Name-less Recoverers meeting.” I

fidgeted on the cold metal chair, trying to find my voice and my courage in this room full of strangers. Finally, I spit out

the dreaded words: “I am addicted to Facebook.”

No one spoke. A few glanced down at their hands, or looked away. “They’re em-barrassed for me,” I thought. “They are used to druggies, alcoholics and co-depen-dents, but Facebook addic-tion is so stupid.” Neverthe-less, I plunged ahead.

“It was fun at first, collect-ing friends from all over the universe. But then I started getting requests to play Kara-te Kittens and Mafia Mania, which made me late to work. Friends started sending me pillows and bouquets, so I had to reciprocate, didn’t I?

“I can’t stop poking people,


BASKET BINGASt. Mary’s Altar Society is

hosting a basket binga 1 p.m. Feb. 19 at St. Mary’s Parish Hall. The doors open at noon and games begin at 1 p.m

‘CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER’ LENTEN PROGRAM

The Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind., have scheduled an up-coming Lenten Program based on “Contemplative Prayer,” the final book written by Christian author Thomas Merton.

The two-part program will take place from 9:30 to 11 a.m. (EST), Saturday, March 4, and March 18, and 9:30 to 11 a.m. (EST), on Saturday, April 8, in the Providence Hall Confer-ence Room.

The program facilitators are the Rev. Rebecca Zelensky and the Rev. Dr. William Hine, both of whom are Providence Associates.

“Thomas Merton, proba-bly more than anyone else in the last 100 years, has brought the attention of the Christian Church to the masses,” Hine said, “with a focus on its his-toric, mystical and spiritual tradition, and the great impor-tance of contemplative prayer.

“He did not start out in the Christian tradition, but rather, converted to Roman Catholi-cism.”

Merton was a Trappist monk based in Kentucky. He was also a prolific writ-er, having composed more than 70 books, which delved into spirituality, so-cial justice and quiet paci-fism.

He was also mentioned by Pope Francis during his 2015 address to Congress.

“We will discuss a man that Pope Francis thinks very highly of,” Hine said. “We’ll try to look at him and key points from his perspective.”

The book, which was re-issued in 2014 with an introduction written by Thich Nhat Hanh, also in-cludes a study guide.

Cost to attend the pro-gram is $45, which includes the book. The registration deadline is Feb. 27.

Register online at Events.Sistersof Providence.org or by calling 812-535-2952 or emailing [email protected].

WVC TO HOST ‘BREAD BAKING: SOURDOUGH’

Make the family happy by learning how to make sour-

dough bread at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice from 1 to 5 p.m., (EST) Saturday, Feb. 25, for the workshop “Bread Baking: Sourdough.”

Sourdough breads are deli-cious and nutritious, and they are also easier to make than commonly believed.

“Sourdough breads are created with a living culture, also known as a starter, which house millions of naturally-oc-curring bacteria and yeasts found in water, on flour, in the air and even on our hands,” said the instructor of the workshop, Candace Minster. “This living culture/starter is used to leaven the bread instead of commercial dried or active yeast. Both kinds of yeast – commercial and wild ones found in sourdough – will cause the bread to rise, but they behave and taste differ-ently from one another.”

Minster said the wild yeasts are what make the bread so nutritious.

“They take longer to make a bread dough rise,” she said. “During that long rise time, the flours have a chance to fully hydrate and for enzymes to get to work unlocking all of the vitamins and minerals that are in the flour. Most of these nutrients don’t get a chance to get unlocked by commercial

yeasts because the rise time is so short.”

During the workshop, Minster will share many bread-baking basics, in addi-tion to tips and tricks for cre-ating and maintaining starters, as well as ideas for how to incorporate sourdough into a variety of other baked goods.

“People can purchase start-ers or make their own,” Min-ster said. “Participants in the workshop will get some of my own culture to take home with them.

“As long as a starter is well cared for, it can last indefinite-ly. There are bakeries that have maintained their starters for hundreds of years.”

Cost is $45 and the registra-tion deadline is Feb. 17.

Register online at Events.WhiteViolet.org or by calling 812-535-2932 or emailing [email protected].

WINTER USED BOOK SALEThe Sisters of Providence

of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods are inviting book lovers of all kinds to check out the second Winter Used Book Sale on Feb. 18-20.

Times are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (EST), each day. The sale will take place in the Providence Spirituality & Conference

Becky Johns plays keyboard and leads song time for Community Bible Church youth group’s Wednesday night meetings. Her husband was recently hired as the associate pastor for the church.

Photos by Bethanny Lawson/The Prairie Press

David Johns leads the youth group at Community Bible Church, where he was recently hired as the associate pastor.

Our nation’s recent presidential election and subsequent inauguration

has created bitter divisions within our country and world. I struggle to find a place of peace.

The writ-ings of the

late Dutch theologian, Henri Nouwen, offer both a comfort and a challenge to my spirit: “In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be a living sign of a love that can bridge all divisions and wounds.”

As we enter February, which traditionally is high-lighted by the celebration of love, I am reminded that my moment-to-moment choice of words and actions pos-sess the power to become a counterbalance to all divi-sions. I am humbled by the knowledge that I possess such a gift.

The Compassionate Clothing Closet seeks to provide God’s love and care in the form of good, used clothing without charge and in a respectful and dignified process. In living out our mission, our volunteers are challenged to share in the varied journeys or seasons of those who enter our building.

The CCC is blessed to exist within a supportive community. We are grateful to all who give of their time, talent or treasure to ensure God’s promise of provision and presence becomes a tangible reality to those living in seasons of need, loss or uncertainty.

A special note of thanks is extended to the following members of Grace Lutheran Church who served at the CCC during the month of January: Joan Bauer, Betty Erisfeldt, Shary Hall, Lynn Lane, Wanda Walls, Car-olyn Homp, Ulla Kessler, Margo Kraemer and Kay Snedeker. Gratitude is also extended to Ron Hens-ley, Sharon Bailey, Sandy Campbell, Betty Hutch-ings, Ann Robison, Jane Young, Micci Cox and Sally McMahan for their work in the receiving and sorting of clothing donations. We also acknowledge the time invested in our ministry by the following PCHS Inter-act Club members: Everett Lau, Emille Roush, Abigail Minnis, Morgan Rigdon and Ben Roush.

For those seeking to ac-tively be a part of the CCC’s mission, we have found our needs fall into several generalized categories: 1. The need for personal care/hygiene products toilet paper, bars of wrapped soap and miscellaneous toiletries

I love the letters of Paul. He was never all that worried about being politically cor-

rect. He is more likely to just open up and tell it like it is.

In his let-ters, he tells us we are all sinners and we have a sinful nature. Paul

tells us we have all sinned against God and as long as we stand alone all is hopeless and we cannot by ourselves be free from our sinful nature. We simply are not strong enough without some very powerful help. Then Paul gives us hope, in the Book of Ephesians chapter 2 Paul says: But God is so rich in mercy, and loves us so much, that even while we were dead because of sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead.

Paul also tells us we do not have to live under the power of sin, no matter how long we have been under its power. Our sinful nature does not have to rule our lives. We can move on change the way we live our lives. You see the penalty for our sins has already been paid, in full. The power of sin and our sinful nature has been defeated. Through our faith in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ

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overseas missions and hopeful-ly find a more permanent place to settle into full-time ministry

Johns was offered a position during the trip as the Philip-pine school’s academic dean. After prayer and consultation with his wife, he decided his gift set did not fit the position.

While Johns loves to help people, he does not consider himself an academic. He also enjoys teaching but not in an academic sense. The offer to

serve as associate pastor at Community Bible was the per-fect fit for him, because he real-ized he didn’t have to go back overseas to have a ministry.

“(It) really opened my eyes to the fact that there are lost people everywhere,” Johns said about the internship in Paris.

Sometimes the Johns feel like they should be overseas, but they both know there are many local ministry opportu-nities where they can serve.

“It’s not that this position is more comfortable (than the one overseas), it’s just a more

natural fit,” Johns says. “We both have a passion for Paris and serving here.”

Johns’ role as the associate pastor is to minister to people between the ages of 18-35 and also young families. The cou-ple started co-leading Com-munity Bible’s youth group Sept. 7, 2016, and he plans to start teaching a young adult Sunday school class in the near future.

Johns has always had a pas-sion for helping people. He originally wanted to go into the medical field before he went

to Bible School, and worked as a CNA at Springhill Vil-lage Nursing Home in Terre Haute, Ind., for a year.

For Johns, his role as as-sociate pastor is to pour into people’s lives continually. Un-like teaching a Bible Institute overseas, where teachers know students for two years and then tend to never see them again, here in Paris, Johns has the op-portunity to minister to people throughout their lives.

For a people person who has always loved caring for others, he finds that’s exactly the right kind of job.

The Johns family is look-ing forward to ministering to young people and families in Paris and particularly at Com-munity Bible Church through his new position as the associ-ate pastor.

passing out Bestie Friend Tags and giving thumbs up to every message on my board. When my husband got up at 2 a.m. last night and found me slumped over the bar—dark chocolate, to keep me awake—he told me I needed to join this group. Is there any way you can help me?”

Now it was the leader’s turn to fidget. Her face reddened as she struggled to speak.

“I . . . ah . . . hmm. Well, Jea-nette. We have found the only way to overcome this type of addiction is to, ahem. . .”

I leaned forward, anticipat-ing her words of wisdom. She cleared her throat several more times.

“I saw a special on laptops at Computer Circus last weekend. Perhaps that would motivate

your husband to join you on Facebook. You see, I not only lead this Nameless Recoverers group, I also serve as the Inter-national Facebook facilitator. If you’ll give me your full name, I’ll friend you the minute I get home tonight. . .”

From My Heart to Yours: Although I enjoy social networking and am convinced Jesus would use it to market his message if he lived today, I have to be careful I don’t let it become a tyrant instead of a tool. I’m determined that my only addiction be Jesus.

(The above is an excerpt from Levellie’s third book, “The Heart of Humor,” available at The Weeping Manor, The Open Door, Amazon, Lulu.com and Barnes and Noble. Contact Jeanette for speaking engagements at [email protected] or 217-463-8770.)

we stand acquitted, in the eyes of God we are no longer guilty of our sins because they are washed away in the blood of God’s son, Jesus Christ – as far away as the east is from the west.

Because of the power of Jesus Christ, we have the power to live as God intends us to. Of course, this does not mean we will never again sin. God did not put us on

this earth to be a bunch of robots.

We will still sometimes sin, but the difference is that when we believe in our Lord and Savior when we turn to him our sins are covered by his blood. Turn to him and feel his grace and love in your life. Turn to him and receive his free gift of salvation.

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(razors, toothbrushes, etc.). 2. The need for seasonally appropriate clothing. 3.The need for financial and spiri-tual (prayerful) support.

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“It was the finest thing I have seen or hope to see this side of heaven.”

The story of the four chap-lains was quite well known in America for a while; in 1948, a first-class 3-cent postage stamp was issued bearing their likenesses. There are still stained glass windows in some chapels across the U.S. that pay tribute to the four men, including at the Penta-gon. But the national mem-ory is short, and they are no longer much discussed. Feb-

ruary 3 was, years ago, desig-nated by Congress to be set aside annually as Four Chap-lains Day, but it is not widely commemorated.

Perhaps, at some point Americans can pause for a moment to reflect upon what valor and courage and sacrifice really mean. How rare they truly are.

And to recall the four men who remain, in the words with which their grateful and humbled country honored them on the front of that long-ago postage stamp, “these im-mortal chaplains.”

SHEERANFROM PAGE 3B

INTERNFROM PAGE 3B

SACRIFICEFROM PAGE 3B

TOMICHFROM PAGE 3B

NOTESFROM PAGE 3B

LEVELLIEFROM PAGE 3B

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Sister Mary said the event will honor mothers for, “their very important role in the lives of children.”

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Editor’s note: Associated Press Tampa, Florida, corre-spondent Tamara Lush spent 15 days traveling via train across the U.S. as part of Am-trak’s residency program, de-signed for creative profession-als to spend time writing on the rails. She worked on her next romance novel and filed occasional dispatches for the AP in the Tales from a Train project.

I traveled around the U.S. on Amtrak for two weeks — beginning in Orlando, Flor-ida, on Jan. 17 and stopping in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, El Paso and New Orleans, and many points between. I talked to dozens of people along the way — fellow travelers, friends and family waiting for loved one at stations, train workers. I generally started the con-versations with these two simple questions: “Where are you traveling on this train? And where are you traveling in life?”

Tereseta, a 22-year-old from Texas, worries that a border wall will separate her from her Mexican grandpar-ents. Pam is raising the chil-dren of her nephew, a drug addict. And Machelle, who just found out about her cancer, knows this month might be her only real chance to hold her 3-week old grandbaby.

The people I’ve met are folks who hate to fly or somehow can’t fly, people from the heartland and from cities. Each person is aggressively pursuing hap-piness and trying to live life

to the fullest.Here are a few of their

stories, in their own words.

IOWA: ‘I NEED TO HOLD THAT BABY’

Machelle Lowe is a 45-year-old hospice worker in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. She just learned she has cancer.

“I’m going to spend a week with my daughter

in Wyoming before I get treatment. Melanoma. My daughter has a 3-week-old baby. So we’re going to go cuddle.

“I had a mole on my arm, and at Christmas I was here with my daughter. They just moved here six weeks ago and then had the baby three weeks ago. So she was real-ly harping at me about this mole on my arm. It was flat, I had it for all my life. But in the last year, it got bigger.

“It’s advanced. Probably in the lymph nodes. Possi-bly my lungs. I don’t know a whole lot yet. ... It may be irrational, but I hopped on a train.

“This trip means every-thing to me. I need to hold that baby.

“The other kicker is, I work for hospice. I know a lot. Maybe sometimes too much. It can be a good thing; it can be a bad thing. I’m just going to hold the baby for a week. I can’t think of a better way to spend the week.”

TEXAS: ‘THE ISSUE OF A WALL, IT’S REALLY COMPLICATED’

Tereseta Esqueda, 22, is a student at the University of Texas at El Paso. Her grand-parents live in Mexico; she was at the station to send

them off.“I’m here to say goodbye

to my grandmother and grandfather. I live in El Paso, and my grandparents live in Juarez. They’re taking the train to visit my aunt in an-other part of Texas.

“I have pride in my ances-try. Even if we are not phys-ically close, they are part of me. My grandparents will be gone now for three months. It will be really sad to me. I’m sad today to see them go. ... I’m in classes now, but probably during spring break I’ll go to visit them.

“My whole family is here today because we care about

my grandmother and grand-father, and we’ve come to say goodbye and make sure all will be fine.

“I just want to reach my goals in life. I want to be a graphic designer. I really enjoy all the arts. I want to have my own business here in El Paso. My biggest ob-stacle in reaching my goals is myself. Sometimes I’m really shy.

“I think the future of America is a big issue. It’s really scary. For example, my grandmother and grand-father and other family in Juarez. The issue of a wall, it’s really complicated to me. It’s my family. I don’t want to be separated from them. I’m scared about it. For ev-erybody. A wall means the division of the world. It’s not just Mexico or the Unit-ed States.”

OREGON: ‘I STEPPED UP. I LOVE THEM.’

Pam Buresh, 54, is a busi-ness owner in central Ore-gon. She’s taking care of her great-nephews and great-niece; she says their father is a drug addict.

“We’re going to Disne-yland. These are my kids. ... Actually, they’re my great-nephews and -niece. They’re with me, and I’m raising them now.

“We have a farm in central Oregon. I’m raising these guys, and they’re super, su-per great and hardworking. And super polite. They’ve

been through a lot. Their dad is my nephew.

“Family means a lot, but not just family, but kids period. They’re the most important thing, and things are really tough. It’s hard out there. Our environment is tough. And then you have other setbacks with family. My goal is for these guys to do great. And they’re doing great. People love them. They are super awesome. They love God, and that was there when they were very young.

“I didn’t think my life would turn out this way, but it’s great. What better thing could I possibly do. There’s so many kids who need homes. And the meth epi-demic is everywhere, across the United States, and it hits every type of family. Kids get stuck, they’re left with it.

“I work a lot; so does my husband. We’re very busy. They ground me. They take me back. School gets out, I’ve gotta take care of the kids. It takes me away from everything else. We’re always connected with our phones, now with them, be-cause they require so much from me that I have to give my full attention and care. It’s healthy.

“I stepped up. I love them. I tried to help their dad out, but he couldn’t make it.”

WISCONSIN: ‘WE’RE TRAIN GEEKS’

Tom Schultz, 68, of Wa-tertown, Wisconsin, was fascinated by trains from an early age.

“We’re headed to Glen-wood Springs, Colorado. It’s a very special stop for us. I hate to use the word, but it’s kind of a yuppie place. It’s very, very nice. You get off the train, and walk 100 feet, and the hotel is there. They’ve got a microbrew-ery. They’ve got this huge pool that’s heated with wa-ter from the earth.

“I’m with two good friends. Once a year in Jan-uary, when it gets to be the doldrums, especially after the Packers lose, we usu-ally take a three- or four-day trip just to rejuvenate our lives. We always go on a train for this trip. I love training. Time is the issue. If you’ve got time, a train is the best.

“I guess we’re train geeks. You have to be one to know what it is to be a train geek. I was born and raised ... about three blocks away from the train station in Watertown, Wisconsin. It was kind of a weird deal, back in those days, that was almost like our park. We’d go up and meet the station agent, and we’d have fun and we’d take the train when they’d turn it around. At night you’d go to sleep and in the middle of the night, the train would go by and the horn and the noise and everything, you’d never hear it, because you got so used to it. But it be-came ingrained in us. I’ve always been a train fan.

“The station agent that took care of the place back when they had station agents - he died some years ago. And I went to his funer-al, and his wife cried with me: ‘You were the guys that he talked about.’ We were there all the time as kids.

Travelers tell stories of their journey


In this photo taken Jan. 28, Pam Buresh, 54, of Oregon sits with her three children, from left, Tyson, Ethan and Riley. They were going to Disneyland.


In this photo taken Jan. 24, Tom Schultz, 68, and Joe Krueger, 60, of Watertown, Wisconsin, talk about their love of trains since boyhood along the rails.

See TRAVELERS, Page 6B

“Getting on the train, it’s just a chance to get away from the rat race. You just sit back and enjoy life.”

CALIFORNIA: ‘I WANT MY DREAM TO PLAY OUT’

Sabrina Feldman is a 19-year-old from Clive, Iowa. She graduated from high school last year.

“We’re going to Chi-co, California. Me and my friend are wanting to move there, and we’re go-ing to look at cosmetolo-gy schools. I want to own my own salon. For school I want to go to L.A. But we’re going to Chico be-cause my friend’s aunt lives there. We’re only staying for a week, and then I’m going back home, and then I’m going to work really hard to get some money for an apartment.

“I like making people feel pretty, so I want to just do good in school so then I can have a lot of clients and my own business. Whenever I go get my hair done, I’m always really excited. I want to have people leave feeling like they have new hair. I always feel good when I get my hair done.

“I think it will be a lot dif-ferent in California. Where I live, we have a bunch of cornfields and livestock ev-erywhere. In California, it’s a lot busier. I don’t know, I’ve never been to Califor-nia. This is my first time go-ing. So I’m pretty excited to see what the environment change will be like.

“I’ve never been to a big city before, so I’m kind of anxious to get there. I hope there will be cute guys. I’ve heard some things about how if you go to a bigger city, people won’t be as nice. Where I’m from, everyone is super nice. There’s real-ly not many rude people in Iowa.

“I really want to go to L.A.

That’s where I want my dream to play out. I’m not scared.”

NEW YORK: ‘APPALACHIAN SQUARE-DANCE TYPE MUSIC’

Mike Jarboe, 63, lives in Clifton Park, New York. He retired after 40 years as a

journalist.“We play old-time Appa-

lachian square-dance type music, is the best way to describe it to people who aren’t familiar with it. I play fiddle, and Paul plays banjo.

“We went to New York City. I have pancreatic can-cer, and my significant oth-er couldn’t come. And Paul was nice enough to come, because it’s nice to have an-other set of ears with you when you’re getting doctor’s opinions. And all the opin-ions are good, which is rare for my cancer. So I’m pret-ty happy. My doctor is in Albany, and this was a sec-ond opinion. So all’s good. Today I got information on upcoming surgery. It is rare with my illness that you can actually have surgery. I’m extremely lucky.

“This has been a happy day. I’m so happy that Paul came to be my ears. When you’re dealing with some-thing like cancer and talking to a doctor, your mind goes a million miles an hour. They recommend you have some-body to take notes. Also che-motherapy tends to fog your brain. Paul was just great. He’s not only a great musical partner but a great friend.

“I’m having a great time. I retired at the end of 2015, I found out I had cancer nine

months later, and I am fully intent on beating it. And I am enjoying my life.”

CHICAGO: ‘I’M GOING TOPROPOSE TO HER’

Everett Grant is a 34-year-old crane engineer from New York. He traveled to Chicago to see his girlfriend.

“She thought I wasn’t coming, but I’m going to surprise her. I love to prank her. I like to see her squirm a little. I met her on Face-book. She was a friend of a friend of a friend. I pressed ‘like’ on her picture.

“I’ve got my own space; she’s got her own space. We’ve both got our own houses, and I get the chance to travel. It’s less stressful. I’ve been in relationships before where I’ve lived in a house with a woman. It’s just like chaos. The distance has brought the balance. I can focus on my work, fo-cus on going to church and praying, and getting in tune with myself. There’s not too much bickering. You know, women bicker. And I can be a bickerer too.

“I’m more introverted. I don’t talk that much. This interview is like a gift. I don’t give too much of my-self away. I don’t allow my-self to be accessible. But I’m trying something new every day. We’ve got a new year; we’ve got a new president. Trump is here, and I hope he spreads some of his wal-let with us.

“I’m staying in Chicago five days. I’m going to pro-pose to her. I’m going to move to Chicago. I have a job offer. She doesn’t know. I’m not worried, because it’s time for a change. It’s a new year. I gave us a year, with us being apart, and it worked, so I’m trying something different. A relationship, any relationship, you have to have something different each year. Every stage is dif-ferent each year.”

(Follow Tamara Lush on Twitter at http://twitter.com/tamaralush. Find the rest of Tales from a Train, including Lush’s reflections on the project, at http://apnews.com/tag/Talesfroma-Train.)


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In this photo taken in January in Denver, Machelle Lowe, 45, of Mount Pleasant Iowa, was traveling to see her daughter in Wyo-ming after discovering she has cancer. AP Tampa correspondent Tamara Lush spent 15 days traveling via train across the U.S. as part of Amtrak’s residency program, designed for creative profes-sionals to spend time writing on the rails. She spoke with dozens of people — fellow travelers, friends and family waiting for loved one at stations, train workers — and filed occasional dispatches for the Tales on a Train project.


In this photo taken Jan. 20, Paul Draper, 59, of Voorheesville, N.Y., left, and 63-year-old Mike Jarboe of Clifton Park, play music on the train north of New York City.

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ENTERTAINMENT

BY MAE ANDERSONAssociated Press Technology Writer

NEW YORK — The New England Patriots defeated the Atlanta Falcons during a nailbiter Super Bowl 51 — and there were clear win-ners and losers off the field, too.

Advertisers had to tread carefully this year in a divi-sive political climate. Some went for all out escapist hu-mor like T-Mobile and Tide, while others tried to take a more serious tone like the American Petroleum Insti-tute. With 30-second ads costing around $5 million, and more than 110 million people watching, it’s a huge gamble to advertise during the game even in a less po-litically charged atmosphere.

Here are the winners whose gamble paid off, and losers who struck the wrong tone.

WINNER: TIDEP&G’s Tide ad featuring

announcer Terry Bradshaw seemed at first to be part

of the game broadcast. But when Bradshaw gets a stain on his shirt, he goes on an adventure featuring New England Patriot Rob Gron-kowski and actor Jeffrey Tambor to try to find a clean shirt.

“It was just from the writing to the casting pure fun,” said Mark DiMassimo, CEO of ad agency DiMassimo Goldstein.

WINNER: KIAKia managed to touch

on social issues without offending people by tap-ping Melissa McCarthy to take on causes like saving whales, ice caps and trees, each time to disastrous effect. Kia’s 60-second third-quarter ad promotes the fuel efficiency of its 2017 Niro car.

WINNER: NFLTwo NFL ads aimed to

appeal to all. The first ad , “Inside These Lines,” nar-rated by Forest Whitaker, showed scenes of football games and workers prep-ping a field. The narration stated: “Inside these lines, we may have our differences, but recognize there is more that unites us.” Another ad showed Super Bowl babies resembling NFL stars like Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka and former Seattle Se-ahawks running back Mar-shawn Lynch to the tune of Chicago’s “You’re the Inspi-ration.”

WINNER: BUDWEISERBudweiser managed to

capture the pre-game buzz with its “Born the Hard Way” spot. The cinematic 60-second spot chronicles co-founder Adolphus Bus-ch’s journey from Germa-ny to St. Louis in 1857. He jumps off a burning steam-boat and catches a glimpse of

Budweiser’s iconic Clydes-dales mascots before meet-ing fellow immigrant Eber-hard Anheuser. Some people took to Twitter to protest the immigration theme of the ad, but the ad was still one of the most watched ads ahead of the game.

WINNER: T-MOBILEThe wireless carrier

made a big splash during the game by buying up 3 minutes of airtime and stuffing its ads with celeb-rities. In one ad , Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart discuss T-Mobile’s unlim-ited data plan with lots of innuendo about Snoop’s pot-smoking habit. Kris-ten Schaal starred in two other ad parodies of “50 Shades of Grey” that im-plied having a Verizon plan is like being punished — S&M style. And Justin Bieber and New England Patriots’ Rob Gronkowski danced in another ad for the brand.


Kia Motors hit a homerun with its Super Bowl 51 advertise-ment starring Melissa McCarthy.

BY JAKE COYLEAssociated Press Film Writer

NEW YORK — M. Night Shya-malan’s multiple-personality thriller “Split” led the box office for a third-straight week, an unusual streak for a low-budget horror film.

According to studio estimates Sunday, “Split” came out on top again with $14.6 million in North American ticket sales, bringing the Universal Pictures release’s three-week haul to $98.7 million.

The run for the Universal Pictures release has come in an especially slow period at multiplexes. Holly-wood traditionally skips significant new releases on Super Bowl week-end due to the game’s enormous television audience.

Surely hurt by the continued strength of “Split,” Paramount’s hor-ror option, “Rings,” came in second with an estimated $13 million. The sequel was an attempted revival the dormant franchise begun with 2002’s “The Ring” and followed up with 2005’s “The Ring Two.”

Universal’s “A Dog’s Purpose” came in third with $10.8 million in its second weekend. Audiences have largely shrugged off the outcry over a leaked video from the film’s production of a frightened German shepherd being urged into churning water.

Several Oscar contenders continued to pad their totals. “Hidden Figures” earned $10.1 million for a seven-week total of $119.4 million. “La La Land” added $7.5 million to bring its domestic total to $118.3 million in nine weeks of release. And “Lion” took in $4 million in its 11th week for a cumulative total of $24.7 million.

More box office was found in Chi-na, where Chinese New Year titles like “Kung Fu Yoga,” ‘’Journey to the West: Demons Strike Back” and “Duck-weed” took in sums that dwarfed the North American market.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadi-an theaters, according to comScore. Where available, the latest interna-tional numbers also are included. Final three-day domestic figures will be released Monday.

1. “Split,” $14.6 million ($14.6 million international).2. “Rings,” $13 million ($15.2 million international).3. “A Dog’s Purpose,” $10.8 million.4. “Hidden Figures,” $10.1 million.5. “La La Land,” $7.5 million.6. “Resident Evil: The Final Chapter,” $4.5 million.7. “Sing,” $4.1 million.8. “Lion,” $4 million.9. “The Space Between Us,” $3.8 million.10. “xXx: The Return of Xander Cage,” $3.7 million ($12.4 million international).

BY FRAZIER MOOREAssociated Press Television Writer

NEW YORK — One of the great things about com-edy is, it demands so little effort to enjoy. Grins and guffaws can seem to issue directly from a tickled funny bone.

On the other hand, pro-longed analysis of humor can kill the joke.

But not always, as CNN demonstrates with “The History of Comedy,” a do-cuseries that keeps the funny in the fundamentals of the comedy it probes.

Including among its exec-utive producers Sean Hayes (who boasts such comedy credits as the hit sitcom “Will & Grace”), the series’ eight weekly hours burst with information as well as laughter. It’s like a college course, if college weren’t just smart but also really funny.

The series starts with a bang Thursday at 10 p.m. EST with “F---ing Funny” (it’s CNN blanking out those

three letters), an episode that gets a little naughty.

Yes, George Carlin and Lenny Bruce get much-de-served credit as the episode traces the evolution of ris-que humor and recalls the risks and retribution that plagued the groundbreaking humorists who flouted social standards in the name of free speech.

They were going for more than giggles.

“I’m searching for an an-swer,” says Bruce, the oft-op-pressed, oft-jailed shock com-ic — “as Billy Graham is.”

Much of Bruce’s act a half-century ago was thought to break the rules. But on the contrary, his mission was to change them.

“’Off limits’ is not a perma-nent address,” notes comic Pat-ton Oswalt. “It’s just a marker. It keeps getting moved.”

Living up to its billing as history, this hour reaches all the way back to the early 1900s to recall the parallel emergence of vaudeville and

burlesque— and explain the difference. (Among its store of fun facts is the or-igin of the term “blue” as a synonym for vulgar or racy. Watch and learn.)

Future episodes look at political humor, topical comedy, comedy in race and culture, and comedy gleaned from everyday life.

Yet another episode shines a light on the dark side of comedy, citing ex-amples of the personal cost of being funny that include Robin Williams and Andy Kaufman.

The episode on women in comedy celebrates the dis-taff drollery of Phyllis Diller, Moms Mabley and Joan Riv-ers. But it also remembers their largely forgotten sister pioneer Jean Carroll, who enjoyed fame as a standup in the 1950s.

Yet another episode fo-cuses on parody and satire, and explores the often over-looked difference.

“Satire is making fun of

the powerful,” explains Har-ry Shearer.

“There’s only one way to get even,” adds Mel Brooks, one of whose career-long targets has been Adolf Hit-ler. “You have to bring them down with ridicule.”

The series hears from le-gions of such reliable sources also including Judd Apatow, Sarah Silverman, Sen. Al Franken (a former “Satur-day Night Live” regular), the legendary Carl Reiner, Sa-mantha Bee, Jimmy Kimmel, George Lopez, Keegan-Mi-chael Key, Conan O’Brien and Dick Cavett.

These voices propel each themed episode, helping give each an instructive heft.

Meanwhile, the fun and the funny are served up in a feast of clips, some delight-fully familiar, others wonder-fully obscure.

Moments from “I Love Lucy” and “Airplane!” are included; you wouldn’t have it any other way. But equal-ly valuable is fuzzy studio

footage from a long-ago broadcast of “The National Lampoon Radio Hour” with such baby-faced stars-to-be as Gilda Radner, Bill Murray and John Belushi. “The His-tory of Comedy” has clearly raided some rich comedy archives.

According to Hayes, the mission for the series is to ex-plore, “where comedy comes from and why, and raise questions about comedy you may not realize you have. But it was also very important to be funny.”

Comedy — easily dis-missed as a monolithic force — is actually vast in its scope: “It was an over-whelming net to cast,” said Hayes, who, daring to look ahead, added hopefully, “We could see doing many more seasons.”

Hayes will get back to be-ing funny on NBC next sea-son in 10 reunion episodes of “Will & Grace,” which originally aired on that net-work from 1998 to 2006.

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SEATTLE — The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is weighing the appeal of President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigra-tion, is the federal appeals

court conservatives have long ridiculed as the “nutty 9th” or the “9th Circus.”

Covering a huge swath of territory — nine western states plus Guam — the San Francisco-based court han-dles far more cases than any other federal appeals court, including some rulings that have invoked furor from con-servatives over the years.

Among them: finding the phrase “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance is un-constitutional, that the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays in the military was problem-atic long before President

Barack Obama’s administra-tion ended it, and that states can force pharmacies to dis-pense emergency contracep-tives.

But some legal scholars say the 9th Circuit’s liberal reputation is overblown and the court has moved to the middle as some of President Jimmy Carter’s appointees — who were considered ex-tremely liberal — have taken semi-retired senior status or passed away.

A Democratic Congress nearly doubled the number of judges on the court during Carter’s tenure, and his ap-

pointees faced easy confirma-tion in the Senate.

The three judges weigh-ing Trump’s travel ban are on the case by virtue of random assignment to this month’s circuit court motions panel. Senior Circuit Judge William C. Canby Jr. was appointed by Carter in 1980; Senior Circuit Judge Richard R. Clifton was appointed by Bush in 2002; and Circuit Judge Michelle T. Friedland was appointed by Obama in 2014.

Canby, based in Phoenix, was a first lieutenant in the Air Force in the 1950s before becoming a Peace Corps ad-ministrator in Ethiopia and Uganda in the 1960s. Clifton, who keeps his chambers in Honolulu, came to the bench from private practice. So did Friedland, who is based in San Francisco.

They were scheduled to hear arguments by phone Tuesday on whether to main-tain the temporary restraining order issued by Seattle U.S. District Judge James L. Ro-bart that blocked enforcement of the travel ban from seven majority-Muslim nations.

President George W. Bush appointed six of the court’s 25 active judges, but 18 have been appointed by Demo-crats. The seven appointed by President Barack Obama are generally considered moder-ate, said University of Rich-mond Law School Professor Carl Tobias.

Tobias called the notion the 9th Circuit is liberal dat-ed. Arthur Hellman, a federal courts scholar at University of Pittsburgh Law School, said the picture of where the court stands in relation to other circuits has become muddier.

“The reputation is certainly deserved based on the histo-ry of the last 40 years or so,” Hellman said Monday. “It’s been more liberal, by which we mean more sympathetic to habeas petitioners, civil rights plaintiffs, anti-trust cases, im-migration cases. But it’s less of an outlier now than it was.”

BY LISA LERER AND ERICA WERNERAssociated Press

WASHINGTON — Presi-dent Donald Trump dismisses polls showing low approval ratings as fake news. But House leaders are actively discussing how to handle the protesters

swamping their town halls, dis-trict offices and phone lines, urging their Republican mem-bers to be polite and — if neces-sary — offer milk and cookies.

From corporate boardrooms to the halls of Congress, Trump is facing an unprecedented ef-

fort to disrupt even the most ba-sic of his presidential functions. It’s an evolving, largely grass-roots effort that aims to follow Trump and his supporters ev-erywhere they go — and there are early signs that it’s having an impact.

The Trump name alone is enough to spark outrage. There are plans for a mass mooning of Trump Tower in Chicago. Boycotts are underway of com-panies that sell Ivanka Trump’s clothing line or advertise on NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice,” where Trump has remained an executive producer.

Congressional offices are be-ing flooded with emails, social media messages and calls jam-ming phone lines. Hundreds of protesters are flocking to town halls and local congressional offices, some in strongly Re-publican districts, to voice their opposition to Trump’s Cabinet picks, health care plans and ref-ugee restrictions.

“I don’t know what the de-sired outcome is but they all seem to be united in purpose to just basically complain about the Trump presidency,” said Rep. Steve Womack, who had protesters show up at his office in his staunchly Republican dis-trict in Arkansas. “This is kind of some new territory for us.”

The goal, say organizers of some of the efforts, is nothing short of complete resistance. It’s a strategy Democrats say they learned from the success of the tea party movement, which sty-mied President Barack Obama’s agenda through protests, door-to-door political action cam-paigns and online activism.

“The lesson from the last eight years is, sadly, that impla-cable resistance works,” said

Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va. “Because it’s all about your base, and I will simply point out that our base is bigger than theirs, and it’s riled up.”

Trump and some Republi-cans shrug it off as sore losers unwilling to accept the results of the election. The president’s core supporters, in states like Iowa and Wisconsin, applaud him as a man of action, deliver-ing on his campaign promises to move quickly and shake up Washington.

Although recent polls show his approval ratings in the 40s, a historic low for a new president, Trump rejects the surveys as false.

“Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election. Sor-ry, people want border security and extreme vetting,” he tweet-ed on Monday. “I call my own shots, largely based on an accu-mulation of data, and everyone knows it.”

But recent presidents never

faced the kind of multi-front opposition that Trump is now experiencing so early in their terms.

Last week, he canceled a trip to the Harley-Davidson facto-ry in Milwaukee, where local groups planned to protest his event. The White House said the protests weren’t the cause. And on Saturday, thousands of protesters beat drums, sang and chanted outside the gates of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where the president was attending a Red Cross ben-efit.

The displays of public out-rage have been aimed not only at Trump but at lawmakers, world leaders and corporate ex-ecutives who might be tempted to work with him to pass key parts of his agenda, like replac-ing the health care law or rewrit-ing trade agreements.

The White House and some Republicans claim to be unim-pressed by the protests. In fact, a lot of the demonstrators are

simply paid to show up and shout, says Trump Press Secre-tary Sean Spicer. So far, there’s little evidence to support that claim.

“The level of mobilization against Trump is almost like nothing I’ve ever seen before,” said Joe Dinkin, spokesman for the Working Families Par-ty, which coordinates weekly anti-Trump events across the country. “Collaboration with Trump is a path that will bring well-deserved ire.”

Already, there are some signs the early efforts may be hav-ing an impact on his ability to promote his agenda across the globe. On Monday, the speaker of Britain’s House of Commons said he strongly opposes Trump addressing Parliament, mak-ing it unlikely he’ll be given the honor during a state visit later this year.

Republican lawmakers are bracing themselves for an on-slaught of rowdy town hall meetings, after congressmen in California and Florida faced raucous crowds last weekend.

“The personal stories are gen-uine,” said Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-Fla., who faced hundreds of Obamacare supporters at a weekend town hall. “They’re American citizens and we’re U.S representatives, and it’s our duty to hear them out.”

On Saturday, California Rep. Tom McClintock had to be extracted by police after angry protesters took over his town event in downtown Roseville.

“The situation was rapidly escalating into a riot,” he said. “One thing came through loud and clear: They were not angry at President Trump for breaking any of his promises - they were angry at him for keeping them.”


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Senate on Tuesday confirmed school choice advocate Betsy DeVos as Education secretary by the narrowest of margins, with Vice President Mike Pence breaking a 50-50 tie in a historic vote.

Two Republicans joined Democrats in the unsuccessful effort to derail the nomination of the wealthy Republican do-nor. The Senate historian said Pence’s vote was the first by a vice president to break a tie on a Cabinet nomination.

Democrats cited her lack of public school experience and financial interests in organiza-tions pushing charter schools. DeVos has said she would di-vest herself from those organi-

zations.Republicans Susan Collins

of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska fear that DeVos’ focus on charter schools will under-mine remote public schools in their states.

Despite the win, DeVos emerges bruised from the high-ly divisive nomination process. She has faced criticism, even rid-icule for her stumbles and con-fusion during her confirmation hearing and scathing criticism from teachers unions and civil rights activists over her support of charter schools and her con-servative religious beliefs.

But President Donald Trump remained uncompro-mising and accused Democrats for seeking to torpedo educa-tion progress. In a tweet be-

fore the vote, he wrote “Betsy DeVos is a reformer, and she is going to be a great Education Sec. for our kids!”

After an all-night speaking marathon by Democrats, Sen. Patty Murray of Washington state, the top Democrat on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee urged her Republican colleagues to vote against DeVos, calling her unqualified and saying that she will be a poor advocate for low income families and students with disabilities who rely on public education.

“We are just within one vote of sending this nomination back and asking the president to send us a nominee that can be supported by members on both sides of the aisle, that can set a vision that can fight for public schools, that can be that champion,” Murray said.

Senate Majority Leader

Mitch McConnell said DeVos will seek to empower states, not federal bureaucrats, to make important education decisions.

“I know that she is commit-ted to improving our education system so that every child — every child — has a brighter future,” McConnell said ahead of the vote.

Emotions ran high ahead of the vote as constituents jammed senators’ phone lines with calls and protesters gathered outside the Capi-tol, including one person in a grizzly bear costume to ridi-cule DeVos’ comment during her confirmation hearing that some schools might want guns to protect against grizzlies. Her opponents also charge that De-Vos has no experience to run public schools, having never at-tended one or sent her children to a public school.

DeVos has provided few de-

tails about her policy agenda, but she is sure to have a busy job. She will have to weigh in on the implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act and possibly undo some of the previous administration’s regulation initiatives on school accountability and spending, which have been criticized by Republicans as federal over-reach. Rules on such things as accountability already have been on hold.

She will have to address several hot-button issues in higher education, such as rising tuition costs, growing student debt and the troubled for-profit colleges, many of which have closed down, leaving students with huge loans and without a good education or job pros-pects. Observers will pay close attention to how DeVos deals with sexual assault and free-dom of speech on campuses.

BY DENISE LAVOIE AND WILLIAM MATHISAssociated Press

BOSTON — Travelers from the seven predomi-nantly Muslim countries targeted by President Don-ald Trump enjoyed tearful reunions with loved ones in the U.S. on Sunday after a federal judge swept the ban aside.

Airlines around the world allowed people to board flights as usual to the United States. One lawyer waiting at New York’s Ken-nedy Airport said visa and

green-card holders from Iraq and Iran were encoun-tering no problems as they arrived.

“It’s business as usual,” said Camille Mackler, of the New York Immigration Coalition.

Fariba Tajrostami, a 32-year-old painter from Iran, came through the gate at Kennedy with a huge smile and tears in her eyes as her brothers greet-ed her with joyful hugs.

“I’m very happy. I hav-en’t seen my brothers for nine years,” she said.

Tajrostami had tried to fly to the U.S. from Turkey over a week ago but was turned away.

“I was crying and was so disappointed,” she said. “Everything I had in mind, what I was going to do, I was so disappointed about everything. I thought it was all over.”

Tajrostami said she hopes to study art in the U.S. and plans to join her husband in Dallas soon. He moved from Iran six months ago, has a green card and is working at a car

dealership.Similar scenes played

out across the U.S. two days after a judge in Wash-ington state suspended the president’s travel ban and just hours after a federal appeals court denied the Trump administration’s request to set aside the rul-ing.

The U.S. canceled the visas of up to 60,000 for-eigners in the week after the ban on travel from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Libya and Yemen took effect, according to

the State Department. Trump also suspended nearly all refugee admis-sions for 120 days and barred Syrian refugees in-definitely.

The order triggered pro-tests and a multitude of le-gal challenges around the country and blocked nu-merous college students, researchers and others from entering the U.S.

At Cairo Airport on Sunday, officials said a to-tal of 33 U.S.-bound mi-grants from Yemen, Syria and Iraq boarded flights.

BY CARLA K. JOHNSON AND MI-CHAEL BIESECKERAssociated Press

CHICAGO — Hundreds of current and former employees of the Environmental Protection Agency are speaking out against President Donald Trump’s pick to head the department.

About 300 people, including scores of EPA employees, rallied Monday across the street from the agency’s regional headquar-ters in downtown Chicago to op-pose Scott Pruitt’s nomination.

Nearly 450 former EPA of-ficials also signed a letter sent to the U.S. Senate saying that Pruitt is the wrong man for the job. It said Pruitt’s record, “raises serious questions about whose interests he has served to date and whether he agrees with the longstanding tenets of U.S. envi-ronmental law.”

Senate Democrats boycotted a committee vote on Pruitt’s nom-ination last week, citing the 14 lawsuits he filed as Oklahoma’s attorney general to overturn air and water regulations issued by the very agency he now hopes to lead. Pruitt, who raised cam-paign money from the oil and gas industry, has also questioned the validity of climate science show-ing carbon emissions are the pri-mary cause of climate change.

Despite the no-show by Democrats, committee Repub-licans voted unanimously to send Pruitt’s nomination to a likely vote before the full Senate in the coming days.

Sen. John Barrasso, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said through his spokesman on Monday he continues to be-lieve Pruitt is highly qualified to lead EPA and he is, “confident in his commitment to help the EPA better meet its mission to protect the environment — en-suring clean water, air, and land — while also pursuing policies that will enable our economy to grow.”

BY DARLENE SUPERVILLEAssociated Press

WASHINGTON — If it’s tough be-ing a kid, try being a “first kid” — the child of an American president.

Just ask President Bill Clinton’s daughter, Chelsea. Or President George W. Bush’s twins, Jenna and Barbara. And now, President Donald Trump’s youngest child, Barron, is find-ing out.

Ten-year-old Barron was the target of a poorly received joke tweeted by a “Saturday Night Live” writer on Jan. 20 as the new first family reveled in Inau-guration Day events. Separately in Chi-cago, comedian Shannon Noll played the title character in “Barron Trump: Up Past Bedtime,” which had a recent run at a theater in Hyde Park.

Both instances have revived age-old questions about the sometimes less-than-kid-glove treatment of presiden-tial kids.

“I think the children are off-lim-its,” said Lisa Caputo, who was White House press secretary when “Saturday Night Live” made fun of then-13-year-

old Chelsea Clinton. “They didn’t run for public office, they don’t hold an of-ficial role.”

“SNL” cast member Mike Meyers sent the Clintons a letter of apology af-ter the incident.

The teenage Chelsea Clinton also was mocked by talk radio host Rush Limbaugh, who called her a dog.

Katie Rich, the “SNL” writer who tweeted about Barron, was suspended indefinitely. After deleting the tweet and deactivating her Twitter account, she reactivated the account, saying she wanted to “sincerely apologize” for the “insensitive” tweet and that she deeply regretted her actions.

“It was inexcusable & I’m so sorry,” Rich said. Fellow comedians have risen to her defense, but Noll told the Chica-go Reader she has been the subject of a social media backlash, including death threats, as well as homophobic, trans-phobic, anti-Semitic and racist com-ments directed at her. The theater also has been harassed.

All presidents and first ladies seek a life outside the spotlight for minor chil-

dren who live in the 132-room man-sion, except when they themselves put their kids in the spotlight.

Days after the incident involving Rich, the White House appealed for respect for Barron’s privacy.

“It is a longstanding tradition that the children of presidents are afforded the opportunity to grow up outside of the political spotlight,” the White House press office said in a brief state-ment. “The White House fully expects this tradition to continue.”

That same week, Trump told Sean Hannity of Fox News it was “a disgrace” for NBC, “to attack my 10-year-old son.” Trump also sug-gested the dustup may have both-ered Barron, who has only been seen publicly during big moments of the past year, such as the night Trump addressed the Republican National Convention and election night. He continues to live full-time in New York City with his mother, first lady Melania Trump.

“It’s not an easy thing for him. Be-lieve me,” Trump said of his son.


In this Jan. 20, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump waves as he walks with first lady Melania Trump and their son Barron during the inauguration parade on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington. Think it’s tough to be a kid? Try being a “first kid” — the child of an American president.

Being a ‘first kid’ comes with pluses and minuses

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Viola Davis, Denzel Washington, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Natalie Portman, Octavia Spencer, Casey Affleck and Mahershala Ali have a lunch date with the film academy.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is holding its annual Oscar nominees luncheon Monday, welcoming more than 165 of the year’s Oscar nominees at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.

The private, untelevised event is traditionally a warm and friendly affair, with nothing on the agenda other than celebra-tory mingling and posing for a group photo.

Show producers are expected to toast the nominees and offer tips for lively acceptance speeches.

The 89th Academy Awards is Feb. 26 at Hollywood & Highland’s Dolby Theatre and broadcast live on ABC.

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BEATTYVILLE, Ky. — All three people aboard a medical heli-copter survived after it crashed in eastern Kentucky.

Local news outlets report it happened Tuesday morning in the St. Helens community of Lee County, about 4 miles east of Beattyville.

Fire crews say the helicopter was approaching a landing zone when it crashed. Officials say the pilot and a crew member were able to get out of the helicopter safely.

Another medical worker was taken to the hospital with leg and chest pain.

The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

TROY, Kan. — A Missouri man whose 8-year-old granddaugh-ter died in a car wreck when he let her drive him home from church has been sentenced to one year of probation.

Dennis Meers, of St. Joseph, was sentenced Monday after pleading no contest in Decem-ber to child endangerment.

Investigators say Meers’ granddaughter, Cadence Orcutt, of Troy, Kansas, died in November 2015 when the car she was driving went down an embankment and overturned in Doniphan County, Kansas.

The St. Joseph News-Press reports Meers will serve 11 months in prison if he fails his probation.

Meers previously was sentenced to two years in the Missouri Department of Corrections for felony driving on a revoked license. In 1996 and 2001, Meers was convicted in Missouri of being a persistent offender for driving while intoxicated.

SAN ANTONIO — The owner of an Italian restaurant in San Antonio says he would welcome back the customers who recently scribbled on a receipt they won’t return because he is Mexican.

Fernando Franco, who owns Di Frabo, says his manager showed him the receipt Friday, shortly after the couple left.

The message noted the food was tasty and the service atten-tive, but concluded: “The owner is ‘Mexican.’ We will not return. ‘America first.’”

Franco says he’s been inundated with messages of support. He says he’s not sure how the customers knew he was the owner or that he’s a native of Mexico.

He says he’ll frame the receipt as a reminder of how politicized the U.S. has become.

Texas restaurant owner shrugs off ‘America first’ slight

Missouri man gets probation in 8-year-old driver’s death

3 aboard medical helicopter survive crash in Kentucky

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ROME — China is stepping up its efforts to persuade the international med-ical community it has stopped using exe-cuted prisoners as organ donors, sending a high-level delegation to a Vatican con-ference amid continued skepticism the practice has ended.

China’s former vice minister of health, Dr. Huang Jiefu, acknowledged Monday reforms to China’s organ transplant pro-gram have been slow and, “very difficult.” But he insisted the measures taken to outlaw the practice have made significant progress even though China still, “has a long way to go,” to meet its transplant needs.

“From Jan. 1, 2015, organ donation from voluntary civilian organ donors has

become the only legitimate source of or-gan transplantations,” he said in an inter-view at China’s embassy to Italy. “This is the whole story.”

Huang will deliver a speech at the Vati-can conference Tuesday amid complaints from human rights groups and organ traf-ficking watchdogs the Vatican is effective-ly endorsing a whitewash by inviting him.

The Vatican has defended the invita-tion, which comes as Pope Francis seeks to improve ties with Beijing and bring its estimated 12 million Catholics under Rome’s wing.

Huang publicly acknowledged in 2005 China harvested executed inmates’ or-gans for transplant, and a paper he co-au-thored six years later reported as many as 90 percent of Chinese transplant surger-ies using organs from dead people came

from those put to death. International hu-man rights activists and domestic critics have long said standard safeguards were ignored when obtaining organs from prisoners who may have been pressured to donate.

China said it would phase out the prac-tice by 2015 and Huang told The Associ-ated Press it has kept to its word.

But doubts persist China is meeting its pledge, given its severe shortage of organ donors and China’s longstanding black-market organ trade.

By its own figures, China has one of the lowest rates of organ donation in the world, because of ingrained cultural at-titudes and a legal requirement family members give consent before organs are donated, even if a person had expressed a desire to donate.

BY DAVID MCFADDENAssociated Press

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Jovenel Moise was sworn in Tuesday as Haiti’s president for the next five years after a bruis-ing two-year election cycle, in-heriting a struggling economy and a deeply divided society.

The 48-year-old entrepre-neur took the oath of office in a Parliament chamber packed with Haitian lawmakers and for-eign dignitaries from countries including the U.S., Venezuela and France. He smiled slightly as the Senate leader slipped Hai-ti’s red and blue presidential sash over his left shoulder.

Holding his hand on a Bible, he vowed to protect the Consti-tution and work to improve cit-izens’ lives in the economically strapped nation.

Moise was scheduled to outline specifics of his gov-ernment’s priorities in a later speech. Moise has said he will focus on boosting the long-ne-glected countryside, where al-most 80 percent of households farm, and bring economic ad-vances to one of the least devel-oped nations in the world.

His administration will benefit from a majority in par-liament, including lawmakers belonging to factions allied with his Tet Kale party. He is expected to name his prime minister in coming days.

But while he won a Nov. 20 election redo with a dominat-ing 55 percent of the votes cast, his critics suggest he did not gain a mandate as barely 20 per-cent of the electorate bothered to go to the polls. The results

withstood challenges by three of his closest rivals.

The election victory came more than a year after Moise topped an initial vote in 2015 that was eventually thrown out amid suspicions of fraud.

Robert Fatton, a Hai-tian-born politics professor at the University of Virginia, described the many challenges facing Moise as herculean.

“He has to revive domestic production, increase foreign and local investments, rebuild the moribund agricultural sec-tor, create a sense of national solidarity and generate a sorely lacking political stability,” he said, adding all this will have to be achieved amid diminishing international assistance.

But Fatton suggested Moise might actually benefit from cit-

izens’ low expectations of po-litical leaders following many years of broken promises and failed policies.

“If he manages to deliver a modicum of change he may restore a sense of hope for the future,” he said.

Senate leader Youri La-tortue, who led the brief cer-emony Tuesday, told the new president lawmakers in his leg-islative body were, “ready to co-operate with you for the benefit of the country.”

A businessman from north-ern Haiti, Moise had never run for office until he was hand-picked to be the Tet Kale party candidate by outgoing Presi-dent Michel Martelly.

Some critics view Moise’s as-cent with suspicion, suggesting Martelly is using the candidate

as a proxy. Moise dismissed the criticism in an interview last year with The Associated Press, saying Martelly will be one of his valued advisers but he is his own man.

Late last month, a Haitian judge questioned Moise about a confidential report leaked during campaigning that sug-gests he might have laundered money and received special treatment to get loans in years before he ran for the country’s highest political office.

Moise asserts all of his busi-ness dealings have been above board. He has blamed rivals for trying to create instability in the deeply divided nation with a long history of political tumult and damage his repu-tation before his swearing-in ceremony.

ALISON MUTLERAssociated Press

BUCHAREST, Roma-nia — Romania’s president told lawmakers Tuesday the country is in a, “fully-fledged,” political crisis, after hundreds of thousands demonstrated against a government mea-sure that would weaken the country’s anti-corruption drive.

In an address to Parliament, President Klaus Iohannis, a critic of the two-month-old government, said the major-ity of Romanians now be-lieved the country was going in the wrong direction.

“Romania needs a gov-ernment that is transparent, which governs predictably by the light of day, not sneakily at night,” the president said, referring to the late hour the government passed an emer-gency ordinance last week aimed at decriminalizing some forms of official corrup-tion.

The move — which by-passed Parliament and was not signed off by Iohannis, who has limited powers — ig-nited the biggest protests seen since communism ended in the country in 1989. As a re-sult, the government will now seek to introduce the plan in Parliament.

Iohannis, who was elected in 2014 by direct vote, was chairman of the opposition Liberal Party. He quit the par-ty that year to stand as presi-dent.

He has been critical of the government headed by Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu, which came into being after the December parliamentary elections.

The government, “has been saying publicly I can’t stom-ach the result of the vote ... that I’d overturn a legitimate government,” Iohannis said. “That’s false. You won, now govern and legislate, but not at any price.”

Some lawmakers booed and shouted, “shame on you,” at Iohannis and walked out. Other lawmakers cheered.

Despite the crisis, Iohannis said Romania did not need early elections, a view the gov-ernment shares.

Liviu Dragnea, chairman of the governing Social Dem-ocratic Party, and Senate speaker Calin Popescu Tar-iceanu refused to greet the president when he arrived at Parliament.

In his speech, Iohannis pressed ahead with an earlier initiative to hold a referen-dum on another government initiative to pardon prisoners. Critics say the proposal will help government allies con-victed of corruption.

Dragnea, the main power broker behind the govern-ment, expressed disappoint-ment Iohannis did not deliver a, “speech of unity,” and said, “he should leave the govern-ment alone, to govern.”

BY ABDI GULEDAssociated Press

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Col-orful campaign posters in this seaside capital give the impression that Soma-lia’s presidential election on Wednes-day will be like any other. That’s far from true.

Mogadishu is in lockdown because of violence by homegrown Islamic ex-tremist group al-Shabab. The airport will be closed, and the vote will be con-fined to a heavily protected former air force base. Fears of attacks already have delayed the vote several times.

But suicide bombings aren’t the big-gest threat as this Horn of Africa coun-try, after a quarter-century, tries to put a fully functioning government in place under strong international pressure. Graft — vote-buying, fraud, intimida-tion — is the top concern in a nation that Transparency International now rates as the most corrupt in the world.

After decades of chaos and war-lord-led conflict, the vote will be histor-ic in this country of about 12 million. But some observers worry whether it will be credible.

Already the country’s auditor general, Nur Jimale Farah, has said two of the seats for parliament members who will elect the president have gone for $1.3 million apiece. Unlike in elections else-

where, Somalia’s next leader will not be chosen by popular vote but by legisla-tors, who were selected by the country’s powerful, intricate network of clans.

“Some votes were bought with $5,000, some with $10,000, and some with $20,000 or $30,000,” Farah re-cently told Voice of America.

The United States and others have pressed Somalia to move ahead with elections as an important symbol of recovery. In the past decade, the U.S. has given $1.5 billion in humanitarian aid and another $240 million to sup-port Somalia’s political and economic recovery, and $196 million in overall funding is planned for 2017. Mogadi-shu remains so unstable the U.S. does not have an embassy there.

But the international community also has expressed growing concern about the election. A joint statement by the United Nations, U.S., European Union and others cited a number of, “egregious cases of abuse of the elec-toral process, including seats reserved for women candidates only that were ultimately taken by male candidates.”

Violence, intimidation and corrup-tion also have marred the process, the U.N. mission said, also criticizing the decision to not disqualify candidates who allegedly commit them.

Some involved in the vote remain

confident, calling it an important step for a nation so unstable for so long that it was included on President Donald Trump’s recent executive order block-ing immigration from seven Mus-lim-majority countries.

“We are well-prepared to elect a new president. It’s a test for a maturing de-mocracy,” said Ahmed Ali, a Somali lawmaker. The president will be elect-ed by the 275 members of the lower legislative house and by 54 senators.

Among the 22 candidates, many who also hold foreign passports, So-malia’s incumbent President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is seeking re-elec-tion and may have an edge to win a second five-year term.

But rival candidate and Prime Min-ister Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke has accused regional countries of interfer-ing in the electoral process by pushing for certain candidates.

Many in Somalia anticipate a highly contested race which likely will see a fur-ther round between the two candidates with the greatest number of votes.

To ensure Wednesday’s election happens, thousands of soldiers were fanning out across Mogadishu, restrict-ing traffic on major streets to reduce the threat of violence by the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab, which has threatened to disrupt the vote.


Somali soldiers prepare to secure the capital on the eve of presidential elections, at a police academy in Mogadishu, Somalia Tuesday.

LONDON — Prince William is speaking out about ending the stigma surrounding mental health treatment.

William told a gathering of health writers in London on Monday that treating mental health with the same respect as physical health, “should be the norm.”

He calls the United Kingdom’s suicide rate among men under the age of 40, “an appalling stain on our society.”

William says telling someone when you can’t cope ,“is a positive step and a sign of strength, not weakness.”

Mental health is the focus of Heads Together, a charity William leads with his wife, Kate, the duchess of Cambridge, and his brother, Prince Harry.

BRIEFLY

BERLIN — German federal pros-ecutors say they’ve obtained an ar-rest warrant for a man suspected of involvement in a far-right extremist group that wanted to attack police, asylum-seekers and Jews.

The prosecutors said in a statement Tuesday the 66-year-old German man, identified only as Karl Burghard B., is suspected of alleged crimes that include weapons viola-tions and helping to form a terrorist organization.

Officers who raided his apart-ment last month found weapons and ammunition.

The suspect is already in deten-tion for a different matter.

Prosecutors say seven people in total are under investigation on suspicion of founding a network on social media last year to organize attacks on Jews, police officers and asylum-seekers.

Authorities said there was no indication that concrete plans for attacks had already been made.

DODOMA, Tanzania — A Tanza-nian official has ordered the arrest of three men accused of promoting homosexuality in this East African country.

Hamisi Kigwangalla, the deputy minister of health, said in a state-ment Tuesday he wanted the men prosecuted for advocating sodomy through social networks.

One of the men, identified as James Delicious, was ordered to report to the police after posting a video on Instagram that allegedly showed a gay sex act. The others wanted are Dani Mtoto wa Mama and Kaoge Mvuto.

Gay sex is illegal in Tanzania and carries a lengthy jail term.

Last year Tanzania threatened to ban civic groups accused of supporting homosexual activities. It also suspended a community-based HIV/AIDS prevention program for men who have sex with men.

Homosexuality is criminalized in many African countries.

LONDON — The mother of a backpacker slain in an Australian hostel wrote an open letter to U.S. President Donald Trump, rejecting the decision to label her daughter’s death as a “terror attack.”

The slayings of Mia Ayliffe-Chung, 20, and fellow Briton Tom Jackson, 30, were on a list of 78 attacks the White House says were, “executed or inspired by,” the Islamic State terror group — and under-reported by the media.

Rosie Ayliffe says the possibility of terrorism was discounted early in the investigation.

“My daughter’s death will not be used to further this insane persecu-tion of innocent people,” she wrote.

Police in Australia allege suspect Smail Ayad shouted, “Allahu akbar,” — an Arabic phrase meaning God is great — during the attack, but said there was no indication the assault was motivated by extremism. They have said they are investigating whether Ayad had a romantic obsession with Ayliffe-Chung.

The attack took place in front of dozens of backpackers at a hostel in northern Queensland. Ayliffe-Chung was found dead at the scene. Jackson tried to stop the attack and was fatally wounded.

German man part of group targeting refugees, Jews

Tanzania orders arrest of men for promoting homosexuality

Mother of backpacker slain in Australia criticizes Trump


Haiti elects new presidentJovenel Moise takes office after grueling election, inherits poor economy and a divided nation

Romania president: We are in a crisis

Graft, threats as Somalia faces presidential vote

Prince William calls for end to stigma on mental illness

China seeks to show pope, world its made organ program reforms

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says his annual budget message this month will be similar to one he delivered last year, asking leg-islators to work with him on crafting a balanced spending plan or allowing him to make cuts of his own.

That’s what Rauner told the Chicago Tribune during a series of meetings with Illinois newspa-per editorial boards this week. Rauner also re-em-phasized his demand for structural change as part of budget negotiations.

“Either the General Assembly authorizes me to make cuts, not my first choice but I’ll do that, or let’s work together to do a balanced budget with cuts and, what I prefer is, a balance of cuts, some revenues and major structural change,” Rauner told the Tribune. “The real important thing is the structural change.”

The state has not had a full budget in nearly two years as a budget stalemate grinds on be-tween Rauner and Democratic leaders in the Legislature. House Democrats say Rauner’s re-form proposals should be considered separately from budget talks, and rejected his two budget options last year.

Rauner says he has compromised on some of the proposals he considers structural change. His agenda originally included changes to the state workers’ compensation system, union collective bargaining rights and public worker pensions. The governor also is seeking a property tax freeze, term limits for elected officials and a plan to rid much of the politics from every-decade redraw-ing of legislative district boundaries.

The Rockford Register Star reports Rauner sounded optimistic in a meeting with its board, citing recent bipartisan Senate negotiations over a budget compromise.

Democratic Senate President John Cullerton and Senate Republican leader Christine Radog-no have been working on a sweeping package of proposals to address some of Rauner’s agenda items. The ambitious package includes a state income tax increase and a dozen other measures.

“I think a deal is more likely to happen if it’s or-ganic, coming from the rank-and-file members of the General Assembly, and the important thing is to get a good compromise,” Rauner said. “I’ve been very clear. I mean, the good news and bad news is nobody’s wondering what I think is the right thing to do.”

Rauner also told the Tribune he has had no in-volvement in the state Republican Party’s critical ad campaign blaming Democratic House Speak-er Michael Madigan for the impasse, though he heavily subsidizes the party. He said beyond his financial support, he, “literally (doesn’t) have the time or frankly the interest,” in participating in the party attacks.

He said he did not think the attacks would un-dercut efforts to reach a budget compromise.

BY SOPHIA TAREENAssociated Press

CHICAGO — Illinois legis-lators are proposing to boost im-migrant protections statewide in response to President Donald Trump’s executive orders on im-migration, a move advocates say would essentially give the state sanctuary status.

One proposal says schools, medical facilities and places of worship don’t have to give access to federal immigration authorities or local law enforce-ment working on their behalf. Another proposal would limit cooperation and communica-tion between local police and immigration authorities.

“If there was ever a moment for things to move, it is now when we’re seeing immigrant communities under unprec-edented attacks,” said Mony Ruiz-Velasco, a leader of a

suburban Chicago immigrant organizing group called PASO.

The legislation’s chances of passage are uncertain. Backers of Trump’s moves say he is just fulfilling promises he made during the campaign, and warn that sanctuary cities and states risk losing their federal funding.

Ruiz-Velasco and others said the goal is to extend so-called sanctuary protections already on the books in Chicago and Cook County, where police aren’t allowed to ask about cit-izenship status and don’t coop-erate with federal immigration authorities.

Reaction has been divided to a series of immigration-re-lated executive orders signed in Trump’s first days as presi-dent, including one designed to allow local law enforcement to investigate, apprehend or detain immigrants living in

the country without legal permission. Some states, like Texas, have moved to rein-force Trump’s orders, while lawmakers in California are advancing a statewide sanctu-ary proposal.

Illinois already has some of the nation’s most immi-grant-friendly laws. Advocates are pushing sanctuary ordi-nances in suburbs like Oak Park. The state’s largest immi-grant advocacy group, the Il-linois Coalition of Immigrant and Refugee Rights, is pushing city officials to make Chicago’s rules stronger.

Democratic lawmakers say the two statewide proposals are just the beginning of what they want to do. But the extent of any opposition isn’t known.

While Democrats control the Illinois House and Senate, it’s not clear where Republican

Gov. Bruce Rauner stands. He said there are serious concerns about another Trump executive order suspending the nation’s refugee program, and urged reso-lution through the courts. When asked about sanctuary cities and states, he said in a statement it’s, “not a state issue,” and he sup-ports, “comprehensive immigra-tion reform.”

Other Republicans are op-posed.

Rep. John Cabello, a Repub-lican from Machesney Park, noted any entities adopting sanctuary status risk losing fed-eral funding. Trump has threat-ened to strip federal money from sanctuary states.

“We’re kind of playing a dan-gerous game,” Cabello said of Il-linois’ plans, adding that Trump is simply following through on campaign promises. “He is doing absolutely everything he

said he was going to do.”Of Illinois’ nearly 13 million

residents, close to 1.8 million are foreign born, according to Census data. The Pew Re-search Center estimates rough-ly 450,000 are living in Illinois illegally.

Democratic Rep. Lisa Her-nandez of Cicero is drafting a separate bill that’d limit interac-tion between local authorities and immigration agencies. It would discourage information sharing and allow local police to decline requests from im-migration officials to keep de-fendants in custody while they await deportation.

She said it would provide safeguards against Trump’s or-ders.

“Either we submit to his re-quest that we are going to go his way or we push back,” Her-nandez said.

BY DAVID A. LIEBAssociated Press

Passionate protests against Donald Trump’s presiden-cy have swelled the ranks of Democratic activists, but their new enthusiasm faces a hard reality: Republicans remain well-positioned to re-tain their grip on power in the 2018 elections.

While Republicans hold only a slim majority in the U.S. Senate, Democrats oc-cupy most of the seats up for election in two years. That

means they must play defense against Republicans, espe-cially in 10 states that Trump won.

In the U.S. House, Repub-licans will be aided by favor-able district boundaries that were drawn to maintain GOP political dominance. In some cases, the congressional dis-tricts were gerrymandered to pack high numbers of Dem-ocratic voters into just a few districts as a way to create a greater number of Republi-can-leaning seats.

“Democrats are extremely fired up right now,” said Sam Wang, a Princeton University neuroscientist and statistician who has developed a statisti-cal model for analyzing parti-san gerrymandering.

But for Democrats to win back Congress, Wang said it, “would take an extreme event. The question is, are we seeing something that’s head-ed toward that?”

The Democratic Congres-sional Campaign Commit-tee is targeting 59 Republi-

can-held House seats in 24 states as it builds toward the next election. Those include 23 districts where Democrat-ic presidential candidate Hil-lary Clinton defeated Trump and various others that Re-publicans took away from Democrats in recent years.

It also is beginning to place full-time paid organizers in 20 of those districts, something the committee says it has nev-er done at this early stage.

The Democratic com-mittee is touting a surge of

675,000 new supporters in January, many of whom joined the cause amid nation-wide protests against Trump’s policies. Whether that ener-gy can be sustained through 2018 remains to be seen.

National Republican Con-gressional Committee spokes-man Jesse Hunt calls the Democratic optimism a pipe dream. Hunt notes Democrats also held high hopes for 2016, but unseated just four of the 15 freshmen GOP representa-tives they targeted.

BY JOHN DYKSTRAThe Kankakee Daily Journal

BOURBONNAIS, Ill. — On Jan. 11, Bourbonnais patrolmen Brett Bukowski and Lazarus Hughes were parked at Central Christian Church, going over field training, when the call came through.

Dispatch said there was an armed robbery at 1 Heritage Drive, and the suspect was head-ing west toward Illinois Route 102 in a small black SUV. The suspect was a white male with a scruffy beard.

A 14-year veteran of the Bour-bonnais Police Department, Bukowski knew Bank of Bour-bonnais had been robbed and drove up Brown Boulevard with Hughes, who just graduated from the police academy last month, sitting in the passenger seat.

They spotted the vehicle near Gettysburg Drive and caught a glimpse of the suspect. They hit the lights and pulled the vehicle over in the Ace Hardware park-ing lot on Latham Drive.

“Every officer in our depart-ment would think it was sus-picious,” Bukowski said. “The vehicle matched the description,

and he kept rubbing his head and putting his arm on the passenger seat’s headrest.”

The suspect stopped brief-ly before backing into a grassy ditch, starting a pursuit that wove through neighborhoods and school zones. Bukowski told Hughes to observe everything. That came in handy when they briefly lost track of the suspect.

Hughes then spotted the ve-hicle, and the pursuit eventu-ally reached U.S. Route 45/52, where the suspect sideswiped a vehicle before reaching speeds in excess of 90 mph.

After leading police for three miles, the suspect, David J. Mc-Donald, 53, of Orland Park, crashed near the old Cigna build-ing and was arrested.

“I was extremely nervous,” Bukowski said. “Anytime you are going that speed, it’s an un-known. It came out as an armed robbery, so I assumed he had a gun. He was driving at a high rate of speed, which puts everybody at risk. Not only do we have to get him, but we have to make sure nobody else gets hurt.”

Just a few weeks into field training, Hughes was stunned

by the pursuit. He joined the department last September af-ter working nine years as a cor-rectional officer at the Jerome Combs Detention Center.

“It was like something you would see on ‘Cops,’ only it was really happening,” Hughes said. “I was nervous because of all the unknowns. (Bukowski) stuck with his instincts, and in the academy, they tell you to rely on that sixth sense. I learned a lot.”

In a way, the pursuit brought Hughes back to his childhood living room, where he watched ‘Cops’ with his late stepfather, Ron Hardiman, who passed away when Hughes was in fifth grade. Those moments on the couch inspired Hughes to be-come a police officer.

So, how would he rate his first high-speed chase?

“I’d give it a 5 or a 6 out of 10,” Hughes said with a laugh. “In some episodes, there are just confrontations. I’d give those a 1. Then, there are episodes where police have to search buildings. In our case, we completed the pursuit, and the man was con-fined to his vehicle when it was over.”


Bourbonnais patrolman Brett Bukowski takes some good natured kidding from another patrolman behind the police department in Bourbonnais. Bukowski was training a rookie officer on Jan. 11, when the Bank of Bourbonnais was robbed. Bukowski and rookie officer Lazarus Hughes arrested the suspect following a high speed chase reaching speeds in excess of 90 mph through parts of the village. Bukows-ki and Hughes arrested David J. McDonald after he crashed his SUV.

BRIEFLY

CHICAGO — Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White is asking lawmakers to help bring in money by allowing advertising on vehicle registration reminders that are mailed out to millions of homes each year.

The Chicago Tribune reports the idea is to avoid a repeat of October 2015, when White’s office temporarily stopped mailing the annual renewal notice due to of a lack of funding in the midst of the budget impasse.

The number of people fined for failing to register their vehicles in time skyrocketed during the 10 months the mailers didn’t go out.

Lawmakers eventually approved some money to resume the mailings, but that measure expired Jan. 1. Dave Druker, a spokesman for White, says the notices will continue for now, but eventually money will be needed to keep them going.

QUINCY, Ill. — A trucking bed and body company says it plans to expand in western Illinois, eventually adding as many as 250 jobs.

The Quincy Herald-Whig reported Monday that Quin-cy-based Knapheide Manufactur-ing Co. will build an additional fa-cility in Quincy over the next year. The 188,000-square-foot facility will be just south of the compa-ny’s existing 480,000-square-foot facility. Construction is scheduled to start March 1 and be finished by Feb. 28, 2018.

Knapheide officials say the expansion will create 250 new jobs in manufacturing, installation and various support roles. The company already has about 1,200 workers in Quincy and is one of the city’s largest employers.

The company makes steel service truck bodies and truck beds. Current company leaders represent the sixth-generation of the Knapheide family.

GREEN BAY, Wis. — A meteor over Lake Michigan lit up the sky Monday morning across several states in the Midwest.

Dashcam video from police cruisers in Wisconsin and Illinois captured the fireball streaking through the dark sky about 1:30 a.m. In addition to Illinois and Wisconsin, the American Meteor Society lists sightings in Indiana, Michigan and other states as well.

Meteorologist Jeff Last of the National Weather Service’s office in Green Bay, Wisconsin, says the meteor was accompanied by a sonic boom that shook houses in the region.

Last says radar shows the meteor passing over Lake Michi-gan, but he said it’s not clear if it landed in the water or if it broke up in the sky.

CHICAGO — Swedish Bakery on Chicago’s North Side is clos-ing after 88 years in business.

Dennis Stanton of the bakery in the city’s Andersonville neigh-borhood says the staff is getting older. He says an aging — and dying — customer base also con-tributed to the decision to close at the end of February. He also tells the Chicago Tribune that the bakery was finding it difficult to attract millennials who are, “looking for a food experience,” to patronize a bakery.

Stanton says news the bakery is closing has prompted customers to call to stock up on the bakery’s famous Anderson-ville Coffeecake. And even after it closes, he says the bakery will consider selling its recipes, though he’s not sure how many people will be interested in buying them.

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