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Serving the fine communities of Brimfield, Dahinda, Duncan, Edwards, Elmwood, Farmington, Kickapoo, Laura, Monica, Oak Hill, Princeville, Williamsfield and Yates City

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CRAMER – A couple of miles east ofFarmington, a boy can’t sleep, worriedabout what will happen to his home, be-tween increased truck traffic, grain dustand chemicals stored within feet of hisbedroom.

Not far away, a woman concernedabout her farmer husband driving toomany miles to Glasford or Brimfield tothe nearest Akron Services facility is re-lieved that something closer could be anoption.

And, presumably, an unemployed per-son is waiting for a job opportunity toopen up near Farmington.

All await the results of a PeoriaCounty Zoning Board of Appeals hearingat 9 a.m. next Thursday (Sept. 10) inRoom 403 of the Peoria County Court-house, where it will consider requests

from Akron Services, Inc. to rezoneproperty where the former Cramer Ele-vator operated.

Interested in buying the property,Akron is requesting rezoning from I-1

(Light Industrial) to A-1 (Agricultural Preser-vation Zoning District)and also is asking forspecial-use permits fora 19.89-acre tract tooperate a business thereoffering chemicals, fer-tilizer and seed, storageand warehousing andan elevator to store and

dry harvested crops.In filings with the County, Akron pro-

poses to remove at least three structuresthere, erect a new grain bin in the nexttwo years and an additional grain bin inabout five years.

Next door, however, is a small organicfarm on three contiguous properties runby Kate Potter and Kris Potter Percy,daughters of long-time Farmington attor-ney and civic leader John Potter, whopassed away last October.

Located along the planned Rails toTrails hiking/biking trail route, Sun Dap-pled Farms raises locally grown food:raspberries and blackberries, apples andpears, plums and cherries, currants andtomatoes, kale and okra, nuts and herbs,plus grass-fed beef and lambs and pas-tured broiler chickens.

Using no chemicals, the farm “sells asmuch as we can grow” through the GoodEarth Food Alliance community sup-ported agriculture (CSA) operation, saysPotter. She said she is afraid of increasedtruck traffic on the County blacktop road,combustible grain dust, “red dog” andother fine particulate matter released in

processing, and chemicals.“We’re ‘downstream’,” she says.Percy, a family physician who lives

part of the year in California, agrees,stressing health fears.

“They want to have anhydrous ammo-nia and pesticides and other chemicalsstored there and moved in nurse tanks oron spray rigs,” Percy says.

The land has been the Potter family’shome place for 43 years, Potter says,adding, “People rightly want to see theelevator put to good use, but we don’tthink this is good use.”

Everyone has rights, but sometimesthey’re in conflict.

Akron, based in Edelstein, reportedlywas founded in 1965, incorporated inDelaware in 1976, and has annual salesapproaching $139 million. Its vice presi-dent, Tim Wagenbach, said, “We have no

By BILL KNIGHTFor The Weekly Post

All four districts funding B.Y.E. Am-bulance have now approved a change toits contract that permits B.Y.E. to alsoserve the south and east areas of theWilliamsfield Fire Protection District,according to Williamsfield Fire TrusteeRuss Galbreath.

Brimfield Community Fire ProtectionDistrict and the City of Elmwood previ-ously OK’d the change, and ElmwoodRural and Elba-Salem Fire ProtectionDistricts approved it in August.

The four districts together contributemore than $274,000 to B.Y.E., whichrecorded 533 emergency responses lastyear.

Elba-Salem Trustee Greg Wessel saidthey “agreed to [the] change as pre-sented,” which lets B.Y.E. cover some ofthe Williamsfield, which has no localemergency transport service for the mo-ment.

Galesburg Hospitals’ Ambulance Serv-ice (GHAS) is committed to coveringthe west and north parts of the area, ac-

By TERRY BIBOFor The Weekly Post

BRIMFIELD – Starting Jan. 1,you’ll pay to play on City Parkballfields.

With a lengthy discussion ac-knowledging the need to work ondetails, particularly when itcomes to scheduling games, theBrimfield Village Board ofTrustees voted 6-0 for its first-ever diamond use fees.

“It is a lot of money, especiallyas we’ve never done it before,”said President Dan Fishel.

Trustee Mike Meinders re-searched fees paid in Peoria, Can-ton and Bolingbrook. Heproposed that day games or prac-tices on weekdays would cost $40for the first game and $30 for thesecond. Weekday evening feeswould be $70 and $50.

On weekends or holidays, day-time prices are $50 and $30.Weekend/holiday costs forevening games are $85 and $50.

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Earlier this year, Williamsfield’s familiar 1968 Huey helicopter was moved fromits resting place near the town cemetery to a spot near the American Legion hall.

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Re-locating chopper a moving experienceBy BILL KNIGHTFor The Weekly Post

WILLIAMSFIELD –Things are moving inBilltown. In the last fewmonths, St. JamesCatholic Church movedits main building, and thepublic library moved intoa new facility.

But another, emotion-ally moving experiencewas relocating a 1968Huey helicopter from thecemetery to the AmericanLegion hall.

About 15 people lent ahand when Central Bu-tane Gas Co. managerRandy Cimei, Lee Wightfrom Wight Chevrolet,Mick Gray and HeathSmith helped arrange the3,500-pound aircraft to belifted onto a truck’s 15-foot trailer for the tripacross town. Though itcaused a minor disruptionon Illinois Route 180,there were no complaints,Wight says.

“There were 10 or 15cars backed up there, andno one honked or fussedor anything,” says Wight,who flew Hueys whilestationed in Vietnam in1969. “It was absolutelysilent – reverent, even. Itwas cool. I had a tear in

my eye; I choked up.”Dedicated on Memorial

Day at its new site at theNorman Legion Hall, thehelicopter once used bythe 11th Armored Cavalry– bought years ago fromthe government for$1,000 despite an originalprice tag of $999,980,Wight says – the Hueywas decommissioned byremoving its motor. Butotherwise is in goodshape right down to a uni-formed pilot, co-pilot anddoor gunner depictedwith donated man-nequins.

Visible a few yardsfrom the highway, the air-craft is an attraction,Wight said.

“Day or night – it’s litup well, including insideLED lights – it has a lotof people stopping andlooking at it,” he says,“It’s not exactly uniquearound here – there’s oneoutside Canton and inWashburn – but it gets atremendous amount of at-tention here.”

The helicopter joins amemorial dedicated toWilliamsfield HighSchool graduate Forrest“Frosty” Cain, who was aU.S. Navy Petty Officer,3rd Class when he waskilled in action in Viet-

nam at the age of 22 inthe summer of 1967.

“It all brings backmemories,” Wight says.“It’s symbolic, I guess. Acatalyst.”

In fact, Wight says hewas reunited with two of

his crewmates this sum-mer.

“We lost each other,”he says.

With the Huey on dis-play, much is being re-discovered.

In moving ways.

Lee Wight ofWilliamsfield, aformer helicop-ter pilot, waspart of a groupof 15 volunteerswho moved this1968 Huey heli-copter to a sitenear Williams-field’s AmericanLegion Hall.

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THE WEEK AHEAD

This Week’s Eventss Farmer’s Market – Brimfield

Farmer’s Market is today (Sept. 3) from4-7 p.m. at BrimfieldPublic Library. Call(309) 446-9575.

s Free Bread – Freebread is available atElmwood MethodistChurch Friday (Sept.4), 10 a.m.

s Cemetery Walk Meeting – ElmwoodTownship Cemetery Walk Meeting isTuesday (Sept. 8) from 6:30-7 p.m. atthe library.

Future Eventss Fall Festival – The Elmwood Fall

Festival is Sept. 10-12 on the square inDowntown Elmwood. Rides, parade,food, craft booths and live entertain-ment.

s Boat Regatta – Lake Storey Beachannual “Cardboard Boat Regatta” isSept. 13 in Galesburg. Races start at 1p.m. Call (309) 345-3683.

s Pie contest – Williamsfield FFA isholding a fruit pie contest Sept. 13 atDoubet-Benjamin Park as part of its AgDay Festival. Check-in starts at noon,judging at 1 p.m. Top three pies win rib-bons.

s Book Group – Farmington BookGroup meets Sept. 14 at 6:30 p.m. atFarmington Public Library. Continues

every second Monday of each month. s Historical Meeting – Brimfield His-

torical Society meets Sept. 15 at 7 p.m.at Brimfield Public Li-brary.

s Bible fun – Bible Fun“Nite” will begin Sept. 16from 6-7 p.m. at Brim-field Union Church forages 3-12.

s Pond Clinic – A pondmanagement clinic is Sept. 19, from 9a.m.-1 p.m. at Mark Stegmaier’s pond inPeoria County. Registration and a $5 feerequired. Call (309) 671-7040 ext. 3.Lunch served.

s Fiber Day – Bring current fiber proj-ect to work on and items for show andtell table Sept. 19 at Peoria Heights Pub-lic Library, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Snacks, bev-erages provided. Call (309) 246-2526.

s Historical Meeting – Elmwood His-torical Society meets Sept. 29 at 7 p.m.at the Lorado Taft Museum.

s Golf outing – Christ Alive Commu-nity Church fundraiser golf scramble isSept. 26 at Laurel Greens. Shotgun startat 12:30, steak dinner to follow. Cost is$50 per golfer. Call Bill Hunter (309)645-7578 or Pastor Lance (309) 693-2393.

s Book Club – Brimfield Book Clubmeeting is Sept. 28 from 1-2:30 p.m. atBrimfield Public Library in the studyroom. New members welcome.

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The welcome warning cameafter Mass on Sunday at St.Patrick’s.

“Dad said he’s got a 2-poundtomato he’s bringing in Mondaymorning,” Mary Case said.

Though excited, I didn’t want toget my hopes up. All along I’dbeen waiting for a 2-pounder,which somehow to me seemed theminimum weight to legitimize ourfirst Weekly Post Big Tomato Con-test.

Time aftertime this weirdsummer we fella few ouncesshort. Withunder twoweeks left in thecontest (whichends Sept. 11when the songplays on Doug Whitney’s belltower), I had started to wonderwhether a 2-pounder would evercome through the doors.

The first tomato Vince Hulslan-der of Elmwood weighed Mondaywhen he arrived – as Case had pre-dicted – did nothing to help. It set-tled in at 1 pound, 12 ounces.

Sigh.The second didn’t look much

bigger, plus it had been leakingjuice since Sunday when Vincepicked it off the vine – which wassupported by a tomato cage.

“It probably lost some weight,”wife Bobbe Hulslander said.

Sigh.Turned out

there was noneed to worry.The tomato (heldby Vince at right,who made Bobbehold the smallerone) hit the 2-pound mark ex-actly. In a flash,Monday becameenjoyable.

For the Huls-landers, whohave been mar-ried 69 years,this is the largesttomato they canrecall in theirgardening career.

Any secrets to growing them solarge?

“Once in awhile we throweggshells on the garden,” Vincesaid.

Any secrets to being married 69years?

They both just smiled.Other than that, the Hulslanders

said they just relied on good ge-netics. Seeds for the plant camefrom Gary and Venita Moody, whohad several large tomatoes inyears past.

After planting the special seeds,this year’s garden also includedcucumbers, peppers and aspara-gus.

“Every year it gets a littlesmaller,” Vince, 91, said of hisgarden.

As for the taste of the mega-maters, Vince offered, “They’repretty good. I’ve tasted a lot bet-ter, but this year none of the toma-toes taste that good.”

The other question for Vince,who dabbles in wine making, iswhether the 2-pounder mightwind up in a bottle?

“No tomato wine this year,” hesaid. “I did make green tomatowine at one time.”

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I sure hope the statute of limita-tions has run out on what I’mabout to tell you. Otherwise, I’m infor a little vaca-tion courtesy of aneighboringcounty.

When I was afreshman in highschool – about amillion and ahalf years ago – Iwas scrawny. Iwas 6-feet tall,had size 13 feet, and might haveweighed 150 pounds if I was pack-ing a couple sets of encyclopediasin my backpack (which, come tothink of it, we didn’t use backthen).

Despite my malnourished look, Iwas quite strong and pretty ath-letic. In the summer, I mowedlawns, usually by hand, helped amusic store with their delivery ofpianos and organs, and took karate

classes, something that no one inour area had really heard of back inthe early 1970s.

Our school had only recentlyoutlawed some sadistic ritualknown as “Freshman Initiation,” inwhich seniors at the high schoolmade an entire week miserable forfreshmen. The underclassmen hadpreviously been forced to wear lit-tle hats known as “beanies,” sothey were readily identified, whilethe seniors made them performvarious tasks that usually ended inpain, humiliation, wetness, or acomplete breakdown of the spirit.

During my freshman year, onesenior was upset that he wasn’tgoing to get to inflict punishmenton us. He was an overweight bullywhose IQ was closer to his waistsize than room temperature. Rumor had it he had been throughseveral freshman initiations him-self.

We had staggered lunches, and

this imbecile ate before the fresh-men. He’d position himself at thebottom of a wide staircase and asthe freshmen came down the stairsheading for the cafeteria, he wouldrun up the staircase, against theflow of traffic, swinging his arms,grabbing books out of the arms offreshmen, and slinging them allover the stairs.

He’d get to the top and laughlike a kookaburra while all usgoofy freshmen were left pickingup books, papers, assignments, andwhatever else he’d managed toscatter.

A group of us decided to take re-venge. We were not to be trifledwith.

Back then, students were re-quired to buy a compass with theirschool supplies. (This isn’t justsomething that tells you what di-rection you’re going, but a tool thatdraws circles.)

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GUEST VOICES


Freshman revenge on Bluto the bully

JonGALLAGHER

To the Editor:As a lifelong resident of the Peo-

ria area, I understand the impor-tance of Caterpillar tothe local economy.Caterpillar recently an-nounced another roundof layoffs. This loss ofjobs will impact hun-dreds of Central Illi-nois families.

Sure, this round of layoffs is arelatively small number and maynot impact local unemploymentnumbers much, but Caterpillar hascut 4,800 jobs over the past year

and 20,000 worldwide since 2012.A vibrant healthy economy needspeople to have money to spend on

goods and services.This spending createsdemand for thosegoods and servicesand then creates jobs.

Two policies wouldhelp get people backto work with money

to spend, 1) rebuild our physical in-frastructure and, 2) oppose tradedeals that harm the United Stateseconomy and the local economy.

2016 Presidential candidate

Bernie Sanders has introduced leg-islation which would invest $1 tril-lion dollars over 5 years to rebuildAmerica’s physical infrastructure.This investment in roads, bridges,and other transportation projectsshould create and keep 13 milliongood-paying jobs.

Sanders also opposes unfair tradedeals like TPP and NAFTA. Thesetrade deals drive down wages andsend jobs outside our borders. Re-building our physical infrastructureand opposing bad trade deals wouldboost the local economy.

– Ryan Hidden, West Peoria

Fond memories of girls in summer dressesContinued on Page 6

“Girls in Their SummerDresses” by Irwin Shaw was as-signed reading for one of myclasses when I was at the Univer-sity of Illinoisin the early1960s.

It did not singthe praises ofwatching them,as many of usdid, but rather ittold of a hus-band’s ogling ofthe ladies walk-ing by, which by sparked a feudwith his wife, as well it might.

But the title always evokes atime 50-plus years ago whenwomen who worked in the officeslocated in the buildings borderingthe corner of Wacker and Michi-gan in Chicago, and most known

for the Wrigley Building on itswest side, dressed in summerdresses called shirtwaists, but-toned almost to the top button andblessed with an A-line skirt whichflowed with them as they walkedto their luncheon destination.

I discovered that parade by ac-cident, but I returned to the areamore than once simply to watchthem pass by. It was almost magi-cal.

Age or size seemed to make lit-tle difference, although I’ll admitI was more attracted to those whowere trim; the vast majority ofthem had mastered “The Walk:”one foot almost directly ahead ofthe other, relatively small steps,and the sway of the hips that sucha walk produced, and its seduc-tion.

Demure and alluring and ulti-

mately satisfying only in the ob-servation and imagination, leadingnowhere for the casual observerwho would never meet any ofthem.

Such coquettish behavior seemsto have long passed. The girlswho walked have been replacedby ladies in slacks and invariably,it seems, low cut tops and push-upbras which dare one to not look atthe exposed cleavage, brazen andwith no more promise of anythingto come than the summer dresses,sported by many women from 13to 50 and beyond.

I am glad I can remember thedays of the girls in their summerdresses. Yes, today I do noticeand maybe even gawk – I wouldnot want the women to be disap-pointed.

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HANNA CITY – Police are seek-ing a suspect in an early-morningarmed robbery of the Casey’s onIllinois Route 116 here, accordingto the Peoria County Sheriff’s Of-fice.

A bearded white male entered theconvenience store about 2 a.m.Aug. 27 and asked to use the busi-ness telephone for a local call. Afterreturning the phone, he left and re-turned to request to use the phoneagain, police said.

Minutes late, the hooded man,believed to be in his 20s, cameback and handed a note to thecashier that read “Give me $60 or Iwill stab you.”

The employee complied – alsogiving the alleged robber a pack ofcigarettes and Mentos candy – andthe man fled in an SUV that policelater confirmed had been reported

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The same car is being sought inconnection with a drive-off theft ofgasoline by Bartonville police.Collision results in DUIarrest for Brimfield man

BRIMFIELD – A 22-year-oldBrimfield man on Aug. 27 was ar-rested for Driving Under the In-fluence after his westbound 2005Honda Civic crossed the centerline on Illinois Route 8 and struckan eastbound 2006 Sterling truckdriven by Michael Stake of CreveCoeur.

Matthew Rosecrans was trans-ported to the Peoria County Jail,where he was also charged withunlawful use of weapons, unlaw-ful possession of cannabis and im-proper lane usage.

There were no injuries in thecollision.Police reports

• Sara Jones, 35, of Dahinda, onAug. 26 was arrested for retail

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• Matthew Cluskey, 29, ofLaura, on Aug. 29 was arrestedfor two counts of Driving Underthe Influence, plus improper laneusage and carrying a concealedfirearm while under the influence,and transported to the PeoriaCounty Jail.

• William Zamaro, 37, of Farm-ington on Aug. 29 was arrested forunlawful possession of a con-trolled substance and unlawfulpossession of drug paraphernaliaand transported to the PeoriaCounty Jail.

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GALLAGHER: ‘Borrowed’ some air from tiresIt was an inverted, V-shaped ob-

ject with a pencil on one leg and avery sharp steel point on the other.Allegedly, you could adjust it to acertain width, put the pointy thingdown, hold on to the top (or bot-tom) of the V, and by twirling it,draw a circle.

I never quite got the hang of it,but some people could do it.

Nonetheless, we were requiredto have one. And I had mine in myhand, ready for use the day we in-stituted our plan.

As “Bluto” rushed past us thatday, scattering books as he went, Iturned and thrust that compasswith every ounce of strength Icould find, directly into the widepiece of real estate on which hesat.

I buried that sucker deep.He howled and turned, but all of

us were busy on our hands andknees, collecting our books. Hedidn’t know what had hit him, buthe knew it hurt like the devil and

that one of us was responsible. Afriend of his pulled the compassout of his rear end and I think thatmight have been the first time I ac-tually saw someone literallyrolling on the floor laughing.

Bluto plotted his revenge all day.He swore he’d really get us tomor-row. Except that he had troublegetting out of the parking lot.

A few of my friends had gone tothe student parking area, and usedtheir compasses to release the airfrom Bluto’s tires. They didn’tpuncture the tires; they only usedthe point to let the air out of thevalve stem.

Then one took an extra key thathe had, coated it in Elmer’s Glue,inserted it into Bluto’s trunk lock… and broke it off.

We knew what Bluto had in thetrunk of his car and it wasn’tsomething he would want to openin front of his dad or a cop. Blutowas a known troublemaker intown and the cops would haveloved to have busted him with

what he kept in that trunk.We also left him a typewritten

note on his windshield that saidsomething to the effect, “If youthink you had a bad day today, tryknocking the freshmen’s booksdown the stairway tomorrow. Wedon’t play fair.”

Bluto managed to get a portableair compressor to re-inflate histires, but his trunk took a littlemore work. We rode our bikes pasthis house later that night, and weknow he was in the garage ’tilvery late in the evening with lotsof hammering sounds comingfrom within.

Police did question some of myfriends about the incident and oneadmitted that they’d “borrowed”the air from Bluto’s tires, but thatthey had left all they borrowedright there by the tires in caseBluto needed to put it back in.

My friend said the cop justsmiled and said, “Good job.”

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ELEVATOR: Some local officials back developmentanticipation of makingthis anything more than asmall, country grain ele-vator with retail cropinput.

“Akron wants to beneighbor-friendly as wellas environmentallysound,” he continued,“and we will always strivefor that.”

Rick Fox of GlobalWarming Solutions, amember of PeoriaCounty’s SustainabilityTeam, said that this situa-tion shows the need to de-velop a county-widesustainability policy,which had been promised.

“I certainly believe inprivate property rights, butI know our current poli-cies are far too weak inprotecting property own-ers when what their neigh-bors do impacts theirproperty,” Fox said, “Thisis especially problematicwith the issue of ‘toxictrespass,’ where todaythere are no effective poli-cies in place.

“The likelihood of‘toxic trespass’ in this caseis high and could ruin thisestablished organic opera-tion out of business. Itisn’t fair.”

Besides the possibilityof chemicals or geneti-cally modified grain dustdrifting over Sun DappledFarms, the operation’sneed for more semi-tractortrailer rigs could causeproblems, some say.

The operation would re-quire 2,200 more trucktrips per year, according toAkron’s own estimates.The Illinois Department ofTransportation recom-mended determiningwhether building new turnlanes from Illinois Route116 onto Cramer Roadwould be warranted. TheCounty is undertaking astudy.

“The increased trafficinto the area would neces-sitate expensive rebuild-ing of the roads in theimmediate area [and] it isprobable that the future in-come to the adjacent prop-erties would be negativelyimpacted,” said Fred Al-cocer of Farmington.“While I understand thatmany people in the com-munity expect that this re-quest is a ‘done deal’ andwill pass without opposi-tion, I hold out the hopethat [the County] will seethis as an opportunity tochoose to continue togrow our community’s di-versity while allowing forthe possibility of a strik-ingly vibrant Cramer-based gateway to FultonCounty.”

Some Zoning staffersand County Board offi-cials said the requests arelikely to be approved.

Peoria County’s Plan-ning and Zoning Depart-ment says its mission is“to manage the county’sland resources; to preserveagricultural and environ-mentally sensitive lands asa means of sustaining adesirable quality of life;to protect property values,the rights of propertyowners, and the generalwelfare of the communityby managing and guidinggrowth through the imple-mentation of the county’sland use plans...”

Percy says, “Given theirmission, it seems like theyshould support and en-courage economically vi-able efforts like we’redoing – with no subsidiesfrom government – andtake our concerns intoconsideration, weigh theharms versus the benefits.

“The old elevator had afootprint at least threetimes smaller, had no an-hydrous ammonia, andhandled a small fractionof the grain that Akronproposes to handle, andmuch of that was by rail,”Percy continues. “The oldsilos in Cramer would bedwarfed by the new grainbins Akron plans to con-struct.”

Some local officialsback the proposed devel-opment. The TrivoliTownship Planning Com-mission in June endorsedthe plan, and chair JohnGrabel wrote that many“welcome the opportunityfor Akron to revitalize[the] existing Cramer Ele-vator operations.”

Trivoli Township RoadCommissioner Carl Stan-ley also voiced his sup-port, saying Akron couldimprove the “eyesore” el-evator, “be a good neigh-bor and a positive additionto Trivoli Township.”

Potter says individualswill be forced to share theburden.

“It seems like big farmsare definitely more infavor than the rest of us,”she says. “It’s a terribletrend [contributing to] de-populating rural areas. Weneed more people outhere, not less. We’reafraid it’s going to ruinour lives.”

After two years, Akronwill generate another $5.6million in annual sales,but the County concedesthat the Logan-Trivoli FireProtection District wouldlose $4,100. However, theCounty would gain$27,400 in revenue, andthe Farmington Central

Community Unit SchoolDistrict $22,800.

Another Trivoli Town-ship Trustee dismissedSun Dappled Farms’value.

“From what I see, milk-ing one old jersey cowand raising chickens in ahorse trailer, then sellingeggs [and] calling themorganic probably doesn’treally pay many bills,”wrote Eric Stanley, wholives about three milesaway. “In fact, her prop-erty is generally unkempt,unmowed and is not veryappealing to look at, andher animals look uncaredfor as well.”

Percy says she’s in-vested more than $50,000over the last seven yearsand planted 2,000 treesand berry bushes.

Meanwhile, part of SunDappled Farms’ operationhas involved short-termrentals of a guest house,and County Zoning hasnotified the women thatthey’re in violation of theordinance.

“There is an obviousand huge irony that thezoning office is shuttingdown our truly family-friendly, small town-friendly, short-term rentalbusiness due to concernsabout fire hazards, etc, asthey roll out the red carpetfor anhydrous ammonia,pesticides, semi traffic andgrain dust on a massivescale within few hundredfeet of our homes,” saysPercy.

Percy is open to reason-able ideas to coexist, for a“conditional approval,” shesays, such as limitinghours and truck traffic toMonday through Thursday.

The Planning and Zon-ing Department received13 letters and some peti-tions supporting Akron’srequests, and 63 objec-tions as of last week.

Here’s a sampling:• Property owner Tim

Foster of Foster Farmssaid, “If this facility can-not be sold and updated, itmay as well be demol-

ished rather than continuethe upkeep expense, thensold at farmland value.”

• Gary Baughman ofHanna City, who alsoowns property adjacent tothe elevator, said he“strongly supports” the re-quest, adding “It will bewonderful to see the facil-ity put back into service.”

• “We live across thestreet, with small chil-dren,” said Alishia Smith.“Its chemicals would bevery awful to my family’shealth. Please keep thisout of our neighborhood.”

• Kim and Mike Staley,who live on Cramer Road,said, “We do not want tolose our future plans dueto noise pollution, trucktraffic and chemicalsmells. We are opposed tohaving this facility in thisbeautiful area.”


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One-hour walking tours will beheld at 1 and 3:30 p.m., duringwhich the stories of Elmwood’smost memorable residents willcome alive thanks to portrayals bylocal actors.

The event also includes an an-tique tractor show and cruise-inand heritage arts demonstrations.

The cost is $6 for adults, $4 forstudents and children 10 andunder are free with a paying adult. Farmington officer hearing again delayed

FARMINGTON – A hearingregarding Farmington police offi-cer Don Radosevich has been de-layed to another date.

Radosevich is facing dismissal.His first hearing was July 20. Anew date for the hearing has notbeen set.SAMS shelter holdingWoofstock fund raiser

EDWARDS – The Stray AnimalShelter (SAMS) is holding aWoofstock fundraiser on Sept. 13at Wildlife Prairie Park’s OldFarm, located across Taylor Roadfrom the main park.

Four bands will perform at theevent from noon to 7 p.m.: ScatGrub Band, The Shews, The Mid-night Special and The CornWolves.

Dogs are welcome and specta-tors are asked to bring their ownchairs. The cost is $40 in advance(visit samsrescue.org) and in-cludes a tie-dyed t-shirt and ban-dana. Additional guests are $15and kids 10 and under are admit-ted for free.

There will also be a silent auc-tion, games, prizes, food, drinksand vendors.

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New playground equipment went in at Princeville’s Troutman Park overthe weekend thanks to a crew of 20 volunteers. The playground wasscheduled to be ready for use on Wednesday. Photo by Collin Fairfield.

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cording to Williamsfield TrusteeTy Landon,

B.Y.E. attorney John T. Brady ofPeoria requested the change in aJune 23 letter, but some were con-cerned that B.Y.E.’s new responsi-bilities could adversely affectservice to existing territory.

B.Y.E. subsequently promisedthat B.Y.E. won’t respond toWilliamsfield if they are busy on

another call, and they’d request asecond crew to respond if its mainteam was already in Williamsfield.

The Williamsfield Fire Protec-tion District will probably meetthis month to sign its agreementwith B.Y.E., which will be paid$70,000 for the year, Galbreathsaid.

Landon said they expect about50 or 60 calls a year needingB.Y.E. responses.

B.Y.E. now charges theWilliamsfield fire district $600 percall and also bills patients, accord-ing to B.Y.E. officer Peggy Gib-son, who said the additionalrevenue will help B.Y.E. budgetfunds for future needs.

B.Y.E. reported assets of morethan $800,000 at the end of lastyear, and is considering building anew facility on South Knox Streetin Elmwood.

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In part, the new fees are aimed atrecouping the costs of upgradingthe fields. The village has bud-geted $10,000 to do so, whichtrustees considered a bargain afterperusing Turf Solutions Group’s

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using the fields may be able to re-coup their costs by donating vol-unteer labor. The board discussedcreating a list of improvementsneeded. Volunteer hours on suchprojects will accrue credit at theprevailing wage, which was esti-mated to be roughly $30 an hour.

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Scheduling – from applicationdeadlines to rainouts – is a compli-

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OBITUARIESGeorge A. Ball Jr.

WILLIAMSFIELD – George A.Ball Jr., 84, of Galesburg and Galve-ston, Texas, survived by Dahindaand Williamsfield residents, diedAug. 24 at Unity Point MethodistMedical Center in Peoria.

Survivors include his wife Sue(Meyer) Ball; three daughters, SalliBlevins of Amarillo, Texas, Diana(Willie) Luna of Galveston, Texas,and Susan (Jim) Hall of Arlington,Texas; his second family, Craig(Leslie) Johnson of Dahinda andTasi (Mike) Mackie of Williams-field; one sister-in-law, Jacqueline(Russell) Galbreath, Williamsfield;and one brother-in-law, Wayne Ott,Dahinda. He was preceded in deathby his parents, Helen (Robinson)and George Ball Sr.; his first wife,Shirley; one son, Richard Ball; onedaughter, Nancy Ball; and secondwife, Linda Ball.

Cremation was accorded. A cele-bration of life was Aug. 28.

Condolences may be left atwww.watsonthomas.com.

Donna BitnerFARMINGTON – Donna J. Bit-

ner, 75, of Trivoli, mother of twoFarmington women, died Aug. 27.

Survivors include children, DonitaMaccanelli and Susan Oltman, bothof Farmington, Craig McAdams ofLewistown, and Theresa (Todd) Pahlof Trivoli.

Her funeral was Aug. 31 at Oaks-Hines Funeral Home in Canton, withburial at the Brunswick Cemetery inrural Trivoli.

Condolences may be left atwww.oakshinesfuneralhome.com.

Greta BrockwayEDWARDS – Greta Elaine

Brockway, 68, of Peoria, half-sisterof an Edwards woman, died Aug. 26at UnityPoint Health-Methodist inPeoria.

Survivors include half-sisters,Shirley (Neil) Bott of Edwards,Irene Sullivan of Peoria, Ilene (John)Johnson of Glasford and BeverlyJean (Jim) Emery of Manito.

A funeral service was Aug. 31 atthe Wilton Mortuary in Peoria, withinterment in Swan Lake MemoryGardens in Peoria.

Condolences may be left atwww.thewiltonmortuary.com.

Gary ChristiansPRINCEVILLE – Gary L. Chris-

tians, 73, of Princeville died Aug. 23at Rosewood Care Center in Peoria.

Funeral services were Aug. 29 atHaskell-Hott Funeral Homes inPrinceville. Cremation followed andburial of ashes will be at a later datein Beckman Cemetery near Gilman.

Condolences may be left atwww.haskellhott.com.

Mary Ann CoxELMWOOD – Mary Ann Cox,

75, of Elmwood, mother of a Brim-field woman, died Aug. 24 at herresidence.

Survivors include her husband,Larry Cox, two children, Chris(Robert) Paternoga of Brimfield andKevin (Elizabeth) Cox of North-brook; and five grandchildren.

Services were Aug. 28 at Elm-wood United Methodist Church.

Condolences may be left atwww.oakshinesfuneralhome.com.

Thelma DuntonYATES CITY – Thelma M. Dun-

ton, 80, formerly of Yates City andsister of a Farmington woman, diedAug. 28 at Heddington Oaks in WestPeoria.

Surviving are two sisters, ShirleyJohnson of Farmington and HelenBennett of Morton; and five children– Randy (Barb) Dunton of Bloom-ington, Robin (Angela) Dunton ofDickinson, Texas, Kathy (Dean)Thompson of Germantown Hills,Mike (Jacqueline) Dunton of Ran-cho Palos Verdes, Calif., and Tim(Debra) Dunton of Morton.

Funeral services were Sept. 1 atOaks-Hines Funeral Home in Elm-wood, with burial at Yates CityCemetery.

Condolences may be left at

www.oakshinesfuneralhome.com.Madonna Gilroy

PRINCEVILLE – Madonna C.Gilroy, 92, of Lost Nation, Iowa,mother of a Princeville man, diedAug. 24 at her home.

Six children survive, includingPatrick (Teresa) Gilroy ofPrinceville.

A funderal service was Aug. 28 atSacred Heart Catholic Church inLost Nation, with burial in the Sa-cred Heart Catholic Cemetery.

Condolences may be left atwww.laheys.com.

Donald GronewoldFARMINGTON – Donald R.

Gronewold, 83, of Washington, for-merly of Farmington, died Aug. 25,at OSF Saint Francis Medical Centerin Peoria.

Born in Trivoli to Berne andLouise (Anderson) Gronewold, hemarried Shirley Scroggins in Wash-ington on Dec. 27, 1959. She sur-vives, along with a son, KevinGronewold of Washington; and twosisters, Donna Mae (George) Walkerof Normal and Mary Jane (David)Severt of Rossville, Ind.

Services were Aug. 29 at Cross-roads United Methodist Church withburial in Hillcrest Memory Gardens,Washington, where military riteswill be accorded by the U.S. Army.

Condolences may be left at ma-sonfuneralhomes.com.

Timothy KellstadtBRIMFIELD – Timothy Phillip

Kellstadt, 48, of Noblesville, Ind.,formerly of Brimfield, died Aug. 26in Princeton, N.J.

Survivors include his children,Ashlee (Jason) Webb of Seoul,South Korea, and Timothy Kellstadtof Faribault, Minn.; adopted chil-dren, Zack, Misty and Tish; parents,Charlie and Shirley Kellstadt ofBrimfield; three brothers, Chuck(Cindy) Kellstadt of Brimfield,Allan (Melissa) Kellstadt ofLebanon, Ind., and Steve (Tina)Kellstadt of Elmwood; his grand-children, Timmy, Tatum and “babyon the way” Thomas Kellstadt andHayley, Chloe and Katie Webb.

Funeral services were Sept. 1, atHaskell-Hott Funeral Homes inPrinceville, with burial in BrimfieldCemetery.

Condolences may be left at www.haskellhott.com.

This Week’s Obituaries• George A. Ball Jr., 84,Williamsfield• Donna Bitner, 75, Trivoli• Greta Brockway, 68, Peoria• Gary Christians, 73, Princeville• Mary Ann Cox, 75, Elmwood• Thelma Dunton, 80, Yates City• Madonna Gilroy, 92, Princeville• Donald Gronewold, 83, Farm-ington• Timothy Kellstadt, 48, Brimfield• John Lansford Sr., 64, YatesCity• Frances Love, 84, Edwards• Joe Miller, 38, Brimfield• Ronald Williams, 69, Princeville

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BRIMFIELDSt. Paul’s

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Sun. Divine Service: 10 amBrimfield E-Free Church

Pastor Donald Blasing11724 Maher RoadBrimfield, IL 61517(309) 446-3571

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Brimfield UnitedMethodist Church

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Thurs. Bible Study: 7 pmUnion Church at BrimfieldUnited Church of Christ

Pastor Stephen Barch105 W. Clay Street, Brimfield

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Tuesday Bible Study: 6:30 pmFirst Sunday each month isCommunion Sunday (glutenfree communion offered)

EDWARDSBethany Baptist Church7422 N. Heinz Ln., Edwards

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Sat. Evening Worship: 6 pmSun. Worship 8:15 & 11 amWednesday Awana: 6:15 pm

Christ Alive! Community ChurchPastor Lance Zaerr

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ELMWOODCrossroads Assembly of God

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YATES CITY – John W. Lans-ford Sr., 64, of Yates City diedAug. 24 at his residence.

Survivors include his wife, San-dra (VanWinkle) Lansford; his par-ents, Kenneth E. Sr. and Betty(Sheber) Lansford of Peoria; twochildren, Terry R. Lansford ofYates City and John W. LansfordJr. of Nashville, and two brothers,Kenneth E. Jr. (Patty) Lansford ofFlorida and Terry L. Lansford ofChillicothe.

Cremation rites have been ac-corded. There will be no services.

Oaks-Hines Funeral Home inElmwood is in charge of arrange-ments.

Frances LoveEDWARDS – Frances Beverly

Love, 84, of Peoria, mother of anEdwards man, died Aug. 21 athome.

Survivors include her husband,Michael Love; three children, Rob(Catherine) Edmundson of Ed-

wards, Barbara Palmer of Char-lotte, N.C., and William Edmund-son of Mesa, Ariz.; one brother,Duane Lewis of Gardner; eightgrandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren; and numerousnieces and nephews.

Services were Aug. 29 at Graceand Peace Lutheran Church inPeoria.

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Joe MillerBRIMFIELD – Joseph “Joe”

Miller, 38, of Brimfield died Aug.24 at his residence.

Survivors include a son, WaydeJahn; and a daughter, Jolene Bar-bara, both of Dunlap; sisters Terry(Pat) Kelch and Jenny (Mike)Bays, both of Brimfield; and abrother, Tim (Sheri) Miller ofTampico.

A funeral Mass was Aug. 29 atSt. Joseph Catholic Church inBrimfield, with burial in CalvaryCemetery in Brimfield.

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Williams, 69, of rural Princevilledied Aug. 23 at UnityPoint Health-Methodist in Peoria.

Survivors include his wife,Diana (Lauber) Williams; theirchildren, Ryan (Sue) Williams ofPrinceville, Nicole “Niki”Williams of Napa, Calif., and Bret(Rachel) Williams of Henry; sister,Chris Williams of Normal; andgrandsons, Chase and JakeWilliams, both of Princeville.

Funeral services were Aug. 28 atPrinceville Presbyterian Church,with cremation following and pri-vate burial of ashes at PrincevilleCemetery.

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The Lady Princesbegan a hopeful 2015campaign by winning twomatches and placingfourth at the KewaneeWethersfield Invite.

Princeville (4-3)opened by defeatingChillicothe IVC in twostraight games 26-24 and25-15. Brooke Gardnerhad four aces and ninekills for the Lady Princes.Lucy Waid also had ninekills and led in blockswith two, while ClaireBerchtold assisted 24times.

Bridget Talley was thedigs leader in the matchfor Princeville with 16.

Two days later theLady Princes scored an-other sweep, this timeover Illini Bluffs 25-16,25-22. Waid contributedthree aces and twoblocks. Rebecca Spur-geon had two blocks,Gardner was the killsleader with eight, Berch-

told had 21 assists andTalley had five digs.

At Kewanee,Princeville lost the third-place match to Eureka intwo games.

Princeville also fell toOrion in three games andhad two-game victoriesover Prophetstown andRock Island Alleman, anda hard-fought three-gameloss to the hosts.

Gardner was named tothe all-tournament team.

“We’re pleased with thebusy beginning of ourseason. We don’t playagain until Tuesday (Sept.8), which will give usgood opportunities to re-group in our practices,”coach Shan Waid said.

WilliamsfieldCoach Tyson Hart’s

Lady Bombers startedwith a wild match ofthree close games in com-ing out on top of WestCentral 25-22, 25-27 and25-21.

Emilee Furlong hadtwo aces. Madison Stew-

art scored six kills andTaylor Dorethy blockedfour.

A loss to Galva, 20-25and 16-25, followed.

“We didn’t play ourbest against Galva. Westruggled to work to-gether, but we started tofind our way late in thesecond match,” Hart said.

Sure enough, the teambounced back to takeRidgewood in three, 20-25, 25-10 and 25-20.

Furlong had four acesand 15 serving points.Stewart set the pace withsix kills, and Dorethyblocked three.

“We’re looking to gel.We have some tough

weeks coming up on theschedule, but that willhelp set us up for postseason play,” Hart said.

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TROJANS: Plenty of room for improvementout of sorts on the offensive line.

Even so, the Trojans finished with298 rushing yards and got 85 yardsand three touchdowns on 16 carriesfrom junior Sam Marincic, who alsohad one of three interceptions. ButMarincic agreed there’s work to bedone, particularly on offense.

“We just need to figure out 38 tothe right side, we’re just a little slowgetting to that side,” Marincic said,mentioning a frequently called play.“The defensive end was cutting inhard and we just couldn’t stop him.”

Marincic said he also needs towork on learning to follow blockersthrough the hole and to find the cut-back.

Hollis agreed with that but saidthere is room for improvementacross the board. Then he smiled.

“You watch the film, we’re mak-ing mistakes and there’s things wecan improve, and we still won,” Hol-lis said. “We’re just going to keepgetting better.”

Marincic’s first score came at11:11 of the second quarter on an 8-yard run that was classic E-B foot-ball. Marincic first appeared in whatlooked to be a mob of players, thenslipped through a carefully createdcrack to score.

Mercer County responded a fewminutes later with a 44-yard run byWood that took advantage of a blitzby the Trojans and poor tackling.

“Other than that play and a coupleother times they had long type plays,we had a lot of guys around the ballin a hurry,” Hollis said.

Marincic scored again on a 3-yardrun with just 9.9 second left untilhalftime on a drive kept alive by afake punt by Groeper that gained 16yards on fourth-and-1.

E-B went up 30-6 at 8:34 of thethird quarter on a 25-yard Marincicrun and then, after a 23-yard Mercer

County TD pass, closed the scoringon a 19-yard strike from Austin Simsto Koby White.

Neither team scored in the fourthas defense and special teams tookover. Middle linebackers JacksonHarkness and Colton Fales com-bined for 17 tackles to lead E-B,which also enjoyed solid kick cover-age.

“Our punt team and kickoffteams – you watch them on film andit’s fun,” Hollis said. “Our front line,most of them ran by them beforethey could block anybody.”

There’s that speed again.


Jackson Harkness (45) and Sean Wilbur (77) combine for a tackle againstMercer County last Friday in a 36-12 win. Photo by Jeff Lampe.

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Elmwood-Brimfield 36Mercer County 12

Mercer Co. 0 6 6 0 – 12E-B 9 14 13 0 – 36

Scoring SummaryFirst Quarter

E-B - Hart 18 blocked punt return(Hedrick kick)E-B - Groeper sack for safety

Second QuarterE-B - Marincic 8 run (Hedrick kick)MC - Wood run (run failed)E-B - Marincic 1 run (Hedrick kick)

Third QuarterE-B - Marincic 27 run (Hedrick

kick)MC - Klingaman 23 pass from

Wood (run failed)E-B - White 19 pass from Sims

(kick failed)Team Statistics

E-B MCRushes 60 29Rush yds 298 145Yds per carry 4.9 5.0Pass Att 4 26Pass Comp 3 14Had Intercepted 0 2Pass yds 32 123

Individual StatisticsRushing - E-B: Marincic 16-85,

Harkness 17-79, Fales 13-71, Gole-mon 2-20, Groeper 1-16, Hart 3-15,McQuellon 1-9, Metz 3-4, Sims 4-(minus-1).Passing - E-B: Sims 3-4-0-32. MC:

Wood 14-26-3-123.Receiving - E-B: Marincic 2-13, White

1-19. MC: Klingaman 6-86.Tackles - E-B: Harkness 9, Fales 8,

B.Novak 8, White 6, Wilbur 4, Harlow 4.

Princeville 40Lewistown 20

Princeville 6 14 13 7 – 40Lewistown 6 0 0 14 – 20


P - Green 16 run (kick failed)L - Miller 5 run (kick failed)

Second QuarterP - Jenkins 5 run (kick good)P - Remmert 32 pass from Jenkins

(kick good)Third Quarter

P - Remmert 2 run (kick good)P - Green 16 run (kick failed)

Fourth Quarter

L - Myers 9 run (pass failed)P - Saal 4 run (kick good)L - Roberts 20 pass from Evans

(run good)

Team StatisticsPrin Lew

First Downs 19 14Rushes 47 27Rush yds 366 116Yds per carry 7.8 4.3Pass Att 4 23Pass Comp 3 13Had Intercepted 0 0Pass yds 62 174

Individual StatisticsRushing - P: Green 15-151, Rem-

mert 14-100, Jenkins 10-83.

Passing - P: Jenkins 3-4-0-62.Receiving - P: Remmert 1-32.Tackle - Streitmatter 9, Bridson 7,

Bauman 7.

Annawan-Weth. 20Farmington 14

Annawan-Weth. 14 6 0 0 – 20Farmington 6 8 0 0 – 14


A-W - Lindbom 9 run (Bryant kick)F - Jepson 10 pass from Gilstrap

(run failed)A-W - Litton 6 run (Bryan kick)

Second QuarterF - Higgs 7 pass from Gilstrap

(Hursey from Gilstrap)

Team StatisticsA-W F

First Downs 17 12Rushes 54 18Rush yds 215 70Yds per carry 3.4 3.9Pass Att 8 39Pass Comp 3 14Had Intercepted 0 2Pass yds 34 194

Individual StatisticsRushing - A-W: Ince 19-103, Litton

25-94, Lindbom 2-20, Heavener 1-2.Farm: Gilstrap 11-53, Jepson 6-18,Garcia 1-(minus-1). Passing - A-W: Litton 3-8-0-34.

Farm: Gilstrap 14-39-2-198.Receiving - A-W: Lindbom 1-13,

Seyller 1-11, Wirth 1-10. Farm: Berry3-34, Grier-Bain 3-76, Jepson 3-44,Higgs 5-33.Tackles: Hayden 11, Marion 10, Jep-

son 9, Cecil 9.

Prairieland BlueOverall ConfW L W L

Elmwood-B 1 0 0 0Farmington 0 1 0 0Havana 0 1 0 0Knoxville 0 1 0 0River Valley 0 1 0 0West Prairie 0 1 0 0

Last FridayElmwood-Brim. 36, Mercer Co. 12Annawan-Weth. 20, Farmington 14South Fulton 34, West Prairie 26Stark County 46, Knoxville 6Mid-County 60, River Valley 0Rushville-Ind. 34, Havana-MC 0

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Lincoln TrailOverall ConfW L W L

Annawan-Weth. 1 0 0 0Princeville 1 0 0 0Mid-County 1 0 0 0Stark County 1 0 0 0United 1 0 0 0Mercer Co. 0 1 0 0Ridgewood 0 1 0 0West Central 0 1 0 0

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KEWANEE – The Elmwood-Brim-field boys cross country team won itsseason-opening meet Monday at theeight-team Wethersfield Invite at Kewa-nee Dunes Golf Course.

E-B scored 35 points to easily outdis-tance No. 2 Mercer County (75 points)and had seven runners in the top 20. Sen-ior Matt Osmulski won in 16:39 and wasfollowed by: No. 2. junior Derek McCoy(16:46), 5. sophomore Cooper Hoffmann(17:42), 13. Alex Herrmann (18:10), 14.Logan Whitney (18:13), 19. DaytonRumbold (18:30), 20. Colton Gorham(18:30.1).

On the girls side, E-B sophomoreEmily McCauley was sixth overall in22:01 and Cassie Karn was 14th (22:24).

Earlier last week, the Farmingtonboys placed second at the FarmingtonCross Country Invitational and the girlswere third. For Farmington, CarterHintz was 12th to lead the boys in18:14.0 and Lindsay Cash was top girlsfinisher, placing 12th in 23:03.4.

Kreiter medalist – Brimfield’s BradyKreiter fired an 81 to earn medalist hon-ors at the ICAC Tournament Thursdayat WeeMaTuk Golf Course, the fourthtime this season he hasbeen medalist.

Top team honorswent to Delavan (357),which placed fourgolfers in the top sixand outpaced IlliniBluffs (387), Elm-wood (409), Brimfield(442) and Williams-field (468).

On Monday, Elmwood defeated Peo-ria Central, 197-201. Gabe Inskeep shot47 to lead Elmwood and was followedby Jean-Claude Keefer (48), Dean Bur-well (49) and Andrew Draher (53).

Earlier in the week, Mercer County(162) topped Williamsfield (234) andPrinceville (239) at Hawthorn Ridge inAledo. Brian Brown shot 49 to lead Bill-town and sophomore Peyton Elwell wasleader for Princeville at 48.

ALL SPORTS ROUNDUP

E-B boys claim first XC meet

PRINCES: Jenkins ‘was poised’

FARMERS: Offensive line very youngcouldn’t run the ball effectively,” Vallassaid. “When you do that, you becomepretty one-dimensional and it’s hard toscore.”

Despite that, Vallas praised the playof an offensive line that included soph-omores Dylan Kenney at guard andThreal Anderson at tackle and freshmanJarod Depriest at guard.

“(A-W) is big and athletic up front,but I think our kids held their own forthe most part,” Vallas said.

Gilstrap went 14-for-39 for 194 yardsand according to Vallas, “with his legskept us in it” as he ran for 53 yards.

Defensively, Farmington did a goodjob of containing A-W’s offense. Vallassaid junior Jonah Cecil (9 tackles)stood out at outside linebacker, as didjunior defensive back Dylan Hayden(team-high 11 tackles).

“Our defense has really come a longway since last year,” Vallas said.“Overall I saw a lot of positives butdefinitely some things to work on.”

The schedule doesn’t ease up Friday,as Farmington travels to MercerCounty.


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Swaminess was9-1 last week.Yes, the loneloss was a stun-ner.

PeoriaHeights? Really?

This week weaim for perfec-tion. Read on.Elmwood-Brimfield atAnnawan-WethersfieldCoach Todd Hollis col-

lected his 100th win inweek 1. Quite an accom-plishment if you know thehistory of Elmwood foot-ball. Win 101 comes Fri-day as E-B avenges lastyear’s loss. E-B 28-14.Farmington at Mercer

CountyAledo is a tough place

to win. The Farmers willput up a valiant fight, butMercer County doesn’tlose two in a row very

often. MercerCounty 28-20.Peoria Heights-

Questat Princeville

Nobody thoughtthe Patriots wouldwin. Reality willset in fast.Princeville 42-20.

Knoxville at Rushville-Industry

What has happened to theBlue Bullets? I had highhopes for them. R-I 24-20.

West Prairie at Mid-County

Free oil changes atWight Chevrolet whenGarrett Wight scores aTD. (The Swami, TheWeekly Post and WightChevrolet do not endorsethis. Please ask Lee andAlan about it, though.)Mid-County 42-19.River Valley at UnitedIt’s going to be a long

year for River Valley. I seeforfeits in the Swami’sCrystal Ball. United 44-6.

Abingdon-Avon at West Central

The Tornadoes collecttheir first win with a pun-ishing run game againstthe Heat. A-Town 35-7.Havana-Midwest Central

at South FultonDuck season continues

for another eight weeks.Rebels move on to 2-0.South Fulton 30-14.

North Fulton at Ridgewood

Good thing the banks ofSpoony aren’t overflow-ing. The Wildcats’ partycontinues. North Fulton28-27.Lewistown at Stark Co.

Stark County’s dynastymarches on. Lewistowndoesn’t have the firepowerto stop it. Stark County42-6.

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Senior Logan Greensaw a few of those inrushing for 151 yards andtwo 16-yard scores.

Green’s first TD putPrinceville up 6-0. AfterLewistown rallied to tie,the Princes ran off 27unanswered points on a 5-yard run by QB TristinJenkins, a 32-yard passfrom Jenkins to JohnRemmert, a 2-yard run byRemmert and a Green TD.

Remmert ran for 100yards on 14 carries andJenkins had 83 rushingyards and was 3-for-4passing in his first varsitystart.

“(Jenkins) controlledthe game and was reallypoised. He set up the lineand we gave him somethings that were automaticaudibles and he pickedthem up great,” Car-ruthers said. “He made allthe right reads and had a

great first game.”The Princes were also

solid on defense, Car-ruthers said, praising de-fensive back BlakeStreitmatter (team-high 9tackles), defensive line-man Weston Bridson (7tackles) and junior defen-sive back Noah Bauman(7 tackles).

“You could tell theywere hungry to hit some-one else other than eachother,” Carruthers said. “Iwas pretty proud of them.

“Overall, a lot of thingswere answered that werebig unknowns.”

Lewistown had twoscores in the fourth quar-ters vs. Princes backups.

Next up is a matchupwith an athletic PeoriaHeights-Quest team thatis fresh off a surprise win.

“It definitely is going tobe an interesting game forus,” Carruthers said. “Iguarantee they are a fasterteam than we are.”

Not bigger, though.


Princeville senior Logan Green scores the first of twotouchdowns in a win at Lewistown Friday. Photo byJennifer Green.

Linebacker Jonah Cecil had nine tacklesfor Farmington against Annawan-Wethersfield. Photo by Dave Giagnoni.

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Run game rolling for Princeville, E-B in openers

Missed opportunities haunt Farmers in lossBy JEFF LAMPEWeekly Post Staff Writer

FARMINGTON – In a gamewhere nobody played verywell, Annawan-Wethersfielddid just enough right to upendFarmington, 20-14.

Both teams missed multipleopportunities in this seasonopener, with A-W fumbling sixtimes (though they recoveredfive) and being called for 97yards in penalties.

Farmington’s blown chancesincluded a holding penalty thatcalled back a 79-yard touch-down pass and a blocked puntthat yielded great field positionbut no points.

“Did we play well, no,”Farmington coach Toby Vallassaid. “But it wasn’t their bestgame either.”

A-W looked strong on itsfirst drive, moving 56 yards toscore on a 9-yard run by JackLindom.

Later that quarter the Farm-ers missed out on a golden op-portunity after blocking a puntdeep in A-W territory.

“We got it on their (20-yardline) and then had some dropsand couldn’t score,” Vallas

said, calling that drive as bigas the called-back TD.

That penalty came afterFarmington rallied to within 7-6 in the second quarter on a10-yard pass from StevenGilstrap to Cody Jepson.

On their next possession,Gilstrap found Eric Higgs for a79-yard score that was nulli-fied by a flag.

“It was a hold. It had nobearing on the play, but it wasa hold,” Vallas said.

Gilstrap was intercepted onhis next pass and A-W tookadvantage with a 6-yard scoreby QB Tanner Litton. Littonscored again with 2:09 left inthe half for a 20-6 lead.

But Farmington ralliedquickly, using two A-W penal-ties and a diving 7-yard touch-down catch from Higgs to getwithin 20-14 with 6.2 secondsleft until halftime.

“That showed a lot of poiseby (Gilstrap) and the whole of-fense,” Vallas said.

Neither team scored in thesecond half.

“We got the ball down therea couple times, but we just

While it may look like Sam Marincic (orange glove) is bottled up, the junior actually scored one of histhree touchdowns on this classic Elmwood-Brimfield play in a 36-12 win. Photo by Jeff Lampe.

There was not a lot of room to run on the ground for Farmington QBSteven Gilstrap on Friday vs. Annawan-Wethersfield. Photo byDave Giagnoni.

Continued on Page 15


By JEFF LAMPEWeekly Post Staff Writer

ELMWOOD – All summer,Todd Hollis kept saying his Elm-wood-Brimfield football had bet-ter speed this season. Friday, theTrojans proved their coach’spoint.

Reacting quickly on defenseand special teams and generatinga solid run game after a slowstart, E-B (1-0) posted a secondstraight season-opening win overtraditional power Mercer County,this time by a 36-12 score.

The first sign of Elmwood’sspeed camewith 10:39 leftin the firstquarter aftersenior CoryHart rushed inuntouched toblock a puntand then re-turned it 18yards for a score.

“It hit me right in my arms,”said Hart, who did not feel theball. “I was too hyped. It justwent straight in front of me and Ipicked it up and scored. It waseasy. I liked it.”

A few minutes later, junior de-fensive end Isaiah Groeper spedpast a blocker and sacked MercerCounty quarterback SpencerWood for a safety and a 9-0 lead.

“If you ask what I was excitedabout on defense this year itwould be team speed,” Hollissaid, noting being fleet of footpays off on special teams as well.

The non-traditional scoringtook pressure off an offense thatreturns just two starters andneeded time to gel Friday againsta Golden Eagles defense intenton stopping the run.

E-B had two scoring runs of 44and 75 yards called back bypenalties, including one in thefirst quarter, and at times looked

By JEFF LAMPEWeekly Post Staff Writer

LEWISTOWN – The strategyfor Princeville was pretty simplelast Friday in a 40-20 season-opening win over Lewistown.

“We kept it between the tack-les and ran downhill,” coach JonCarruthers said.

No shocker there. Blessed withits biggest offensive line inyears, Princeville (1-0) was con-tent to keep the ball on theground and to rack up 366 yardson 47 rushes.

“I can’t say enough about theline, they really did a good job,”Carruthers said. “Our backs hadsome tough runs, but there weresome nice holes they got to runthrough.”


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