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PRSRT. STD.U.S. POSTAGE PAIDElmwood, IllinoisPermit No. 13

Carrier Route PresortThursdayOctober 30, 2014Vol. 2, No. 36

By BILL KNIGHTFor The Weekly Post

The Illinois State Board of Educationis giving the five school districts andstudents’ families in The Weekly Postarea information to celebrate or acceptas challenges with the 2014 School Re-port Card, scheduled to be available tothe public online on Friday (Oct. 31).Each school has areas of “well done”and “needs work.”

On the Illinois Standards Achieve-ment Tests (ISAT), Elmwood studentsimproved the most of the five schools.

Farmington improved somewhat, Brim-field and Princeville remained the same,and Williamsfield dropped. In thePrairie State Achievement Exam(PSAE), Elmwood again improved themost, but Brimfield, Farmington andPrinceville all showed progress, andWilliamsfield declined.

“We have an average class size of 12students,” said Williamsfield Superin-tendent Tim Farquer. “Our chronic tru-ancy and student mobility rates are wellbelow the state average. The environ-

ment of our district positions us to excel.As an institution, we must embrace cur-rent opportunities to improve and ensuremore of our students position them-selves for success in college and career.

“I’m excited at the opportunity toplace primary focus on academicgrowth,” he continued. “ ‘Meets or Ex-ceeds’ is still important, but measuring,honoring and celebrating growth is whymy friends and I went into teaching.”

Statewide, Illinois students’ academicgrowth performance (the growth from

year to year on ISAT scores) decreasedin reading from 102.1 in 2013 to 99.4,the ISBE reported, but increased in mathfrom 101.4 in 2013 to 102.9.

The spring 2014 exams marked thefinal time students took the reading andmath ISATs. The state will launch newexams this school year.

“We stopped using ISAT data a fewyears ago when they changed the test,”said Farmington Superintendent JohnAsplund. “It is difficult to determine anyuseful trends when the test changes too

By MICHELLE SHERMANFor The Weekly Post

FARMINGTON – When theFarmington Area Public Library Dis-trict’s new building opens on Satur-day, one long-time patron will befront and center for the event.

Dorothy Dunblazier, 102, ofHanna City hasn’t been able to enterthe library’s Carnegie building forseveral years due to mobility issues.But now that the new facility, 411 N.Lightfoot Road, Farmington, iswheelchair-accessible, she can enjoyeverything the library has to offer.

“We have an outreach library inHanna City,” says friend and neigh-bor Myrna Klatt, “and I would al-ways take her up there.

“Normally, we’d get five differentbooks a week (for Dunblazier) toread.”

With two deceased sons and adaughter in Georgia, friends andneighbors stepped up to make sureDunblazier has care and rides tochurch or local events.

The new library building boasts9,300 square feet of space, which in-cludes a community meeting roomand special young-adult section. Adrive-up window also will be avail-able for quick pick-ups and drop-offs of materials.

Elmwood boarddenies plan fortuition waiver


ELMWOOD – The Board of Education onMonday accepted its audit report and denied aproposal to waive tuition for teachers’ childrennot in the District.

That suggestion was to encourage full-timeemployees, some of whom are unable to movehere, to enroll their kids without an out-of-dis-trict penalty, which was defeated 4-2 with oneabstention. Hundreds of Illinois school districtshave enacted such a five-year waiver based onstate law, including Havana, Peoria Heights,Princeville, ROWVA, VIT and Williamsfield,the board heard – along with support by teach-ers in attendance, including Dawn Buchanan,Katie Janovetz and Erich Weiger.

Buchanan praised the school, its employeesand the quality of education in Elmwood, butsaid because of her husband’s job, her familycan’t come here. So she commutes and jugglesschedules for the couple and their three chil-dren. Weiger thanked the board for consideringthe measure and said his situation isn’t that un-usual: He and his wife, who works in Peoria,years ago bought a home in West Peoria andare unable to sell their house.

“It’s not that easy to move,” Weiger said.Neverthelesss, the opposition, led by Board

member Dean Cantu, was worried the waiverwould be unfair and unpopular.

“I’m concerned in terms of the fairness ofsome individuals having this privilege if theydon’t live here,” Cantu said. “You’re [propos-ing] incentivizing living outside the District. I

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Clockwise from left, BobbiMillinger helps (left to right),Payge Ryan, Carly Hart andLibby Hart become “fishersof men” during Sunday’sTrunk or Treat event on Elm-wood’s square. Costumedkids and adults (above andright) turned out in force forthe event, and organizerssaid more than 650 hot dogswere given away. Photos byBill Knight and Amy Davis.

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believe a majority of people in thecommunity – who talked to me –feel they’d pay taxes and foot thebill for [others’] children.”

Two other teachers agreed. EmilyRoberts spoke and said, “We madethat choice to live here. If [employ-ees] want that privilege, they shouldbe taxpayers.”

Stephanie Colgan sent a letter ob-jecting to a “$6,000 to $7,000 perkthat other teachers wouldn’t have.”

Board president Tom Conklin dis-puted the idea that a few teachers’kids would cost the district. He saidif 10 children enrolled across vari-ous grade levels and no new teach-ers were needed, costs wouldremain the same and revenues fromthe state’s Average Daily Atten-dance fund would increase.

“We could actually generateabout $2,200 per [new, out-of-dis-trict] student,” Conklin said.

Board member Mark Davis saidhe had misgivings because employ-ees have a choice where they live,but Board member Rick LeHew

disagreed.“Some don’t have a choice,”

LeHew said. “If your family owns afarm just outside the district or [be-cause of] your family’s employmentor housing situation, you may notbe able to move.”

Conklin and LeHew voted for thewaiver; Davis, Cantu, secretary BillFrietsch, and vice president TerriOsmulski voted against it; VeronicaHaskell abstained.

In other proceedings, StephanieRamsay from the Peoria accountingfirm Gorenz and Associates sum-marized its audit and reported theDistrict scored a 3.55. The state’scriteria are Financial Recognitionfor districts between 3.54 and 4.00,Financial Review (3.08-3.53), Fi-nancial Early Warning (2.62-3.07)and Financial Watch (1.00-2.61).

“We have an ‘adverse’ opinion,”Ramsay added, “but it’s an unquali-fied opinion. The revenue-expendi-ture ratio here is starting to affect alot of schools.”

The Average Daily Attendance isup 3 percent in three years, and in

the last year property tax revenuesare up $34,767 (1.1 percent) andother local revenue sources in-creased $56,787 (10 percent), theaudit reported. However, revenuefrom state and federal sourcesdropped dramatically: General StateAid was down $96,350 (-6.7 per-cent) and federal funding decreased$75,882 (-22.8 percent).

Further, the assessed value of Dis-trict real estate is up 45 percent inthe last decade, but has been mostlyflat for five years. Finally, the Dis-trict’s Operating Fund Balance($2,527,798) is the highest in thelast 10 years – except for the pre-ceding three years.

In other business, the Board andthe Elmwood Teacher’s AssociationLocal #4235 are in preliminary con-versations before negotiations. Thecontract expires Aug. 1, 2015.

By consensus the Board askedSuperintendent Chad Wagner tolook into various options to addressthe aging bus fleet, whose mainte-nance is becoming increasinglycostly.

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s Yoga Class – Yoga on Friday (Oct.24) from 9:10 to 10:10 a.m. at Lillie M.Evans Library, Princeville. Free andopen to the public.

s Turkey Dinner –Dinner Saturday (Nov.1) from 4:30-7 p.m. atBrimfield American Le-gion. Sponsored byWomen’s Auxiliary.Cost $8.

s Craft Time – Make a bird feederSaturday (Nov. 1) from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.at Morrison and Mary Wiley Library,Elmwood. Craft takes about 30 minutes.

s Bible Study – Elmwood Bible StudySunday (Nov. 2) at 6 p.m. in the base-ment of the apartments at 200 S. Althea,Elmwood. All are welcome.

s Trivia Contest – Test your triviaknowledge Nov. 4 at Kickapoo CreekWinery. Doors open at 6. Free to play.Top 3 teams win.

s Book Babies – Book Babies willmeet Nov. 4, 10:30-11 a.m. at BrimfieldLibrary. This is for 0 to 3 year olds andtheir caregivers. Enjoy songs, rhymesand playtime.

s Bible Fun – Bible Fun Night Nov.

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s Book Signing – Sandy Miller, authorof “Little Twig,” will read and signcopies of the book Nov. 8 at 10:30 a.m.Crafts will be on hand for children to do.

s Fall Fair – Elmwood UnitedMethodist Church annual Fall Fair Nov.8 at the church. Continental breakfast,lunch, crafts and baked goods from 8:30a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

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Even Forrest knew: Stupid is as stupid does

Plan to limit Wednesdays leads to flashback



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The Brimfield School District’sconsideration of closing school fa-cilities to prac-tices andcontests onWednesdaynights, includingthose not spon-sored by theschool, took meback to my earlyyears as ateacher and di-rector of class plays at ElmwoodHigh School.

I began teaching in 1966 – Mrs.

Helen Hart Metz interviewed metwo days before school was tostart, and she was in dire need ofsomeone who might be able toteach English and Speech. (Youmay remember my column regard-ing tenure; if I did not pan out, Icould be released with no reasongiven during or after the firstyear.)

I was given the opportunity todirect the junior class play thatfall, and I was told during the in-terview that no practices could beheld on Wednesday evening.Many junior boys played football,

so play practices took place aftersupper to allow them to partici-pate, and the policy denied me ofone night a week to prepare thecast for its big night on the stage.

I asked Mrs. Metz the justifica-tion for the policy, and she said,“Wednesday is church night,” andwe moved on. The policy appliedto all school activities, includingbuilding floats for the Homecom-ing parade.

We followed a policy of separa-tion of church and state in 1966,and I doubt those of you who had

Rambling through central Illi-nois, pondering Forrest Gump.

uuuOf all the dopey things kids do,

vandalism is high on the list of re-ally dumb acts. It’s one thing to in-flict pain on yourself – and a very,very bad idea at that – but thingsgo to anotherlevel of cow-ardice when youtake your angstout on someoneelse, who thenhas to deal withyour actions.

That’s as trueof bullies as ofpetty vandals,like the oneswho struck Elmwood in the weehours of the night last week. Atsome point, someone spray-painted red messages on severalbuildings in town, lit a mailbox onfire and spray-painted messageson a new concrete basketball courtat West Park.

As you can see in the pictureabove, the vandals are definitelynot candidates for valedictorian –

though in fairness, somebodyeventually figured out the correctspelling of “Squad.”

Actually, the misspelling carrieson a sad tradition of stupidity dat-ing back several years to the lastwidespread case of vandalism inElmwood.

On that occasion, spray paintersused black to deface buildings intown, at one spot misspelling“Peoria Hights.”

That led some to think the dopeswere not actually from PeoriaHeights, since it’s hard to fathomeven a vandal could misspell thename of their hometown.

But they were just that dumb.Police busted a pair of culpritswho were from Peoria Heights,lured west thanks to a footballgame against Elmwood-Brimfield.As punishment, they had to per-form community service, whichdid little to clear the smudge ontheir community.

There’s no proof yet that thesame is true this time. But if itturns out the latest case involveskids from the Heights, I’d requesta discussion with that school’s ad-

ministration before the nextHeights-Trojans football game.

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If you watch TV at all, youknow we’ve got an election com-ing up on Nov. 4. You may nothave realized it was the 4th, butgiven the massive number of com-mercials for candidates, you knewit had to besometime soon.

Even if youdon’t watch TV,the thing has away of turningitself on if forno other reasonthan to blast youfull of electoralpoppycock.

We’re being asked to choose agovernor from a couple of guysthat their respective parties haveput up in front of us.

The first is current Gov. PatQuinn. If you believe the ads hisopponent’s running, Quinn’s re-sponsible for letting all sorts ofnefarious criminals out of jailearly (even though the ad doesn’tname a single name) so that theycan continue their life of crime asthey knew it before incarceration.At least, that’s what the ads claim.

For his part, Quinn claims to bethe “Jobs Governor” but still man-ages to lead the league in unem-ployment. He also supportskeeping a four-year increase in in-come tax from 3 to 5 percent from2011 although time’s up.

Then there’s multi-millionaireBruce Rauner, who shipped abunch of jobs overseas and bribedcivic officials like a gradeschooler handing out lollipops($25,000-a-month suckers atthat!), or so say the ads we see afew hundred times a day.

Rauner also threatened a firedemployee with all sorts of legalaction, basically being a bigmeanie.

Most of the ads don’t tell uswhat each candidate is proposingto do if elected; they’re too busyslinging pig poop at each other.

Sure, there’s one where Raunershows that as a millionaire, hedrives a beat-up old van to showhow much of a common man heis. In the next breath, he’s remind-ing us that our current governorlives in Chicago and commutesback and forth to Springfield at

taxpayer expense.Quinn then takes to the air-

waves in a brand new van, onethat was built here in Illinois –thanks to him, of course.

Quinn also tries to coax us tohis side by showing himself mow-ing the grass at an undisclosed lo-cation (although I’m guessing it’snot the governor’s mansion) withan old-fashioned rotary mower.I’d be willing to bet a lot ofmoney that a) Quinn doesn’t mowhis own lawn, and b) it’s done bya power mower.

Even when the two squared offin a televised debate in Peoria, therhetoric quickly deteriorated intowhat looked like a promo for thenext Wrestlemania. The two spentvery little time talking about is-sues and spent more time slingingmud at each other.

I’m not sure who started thisgarbage, but I’m tired of hearingit. It’s almost like listening to acouple of kids from the play-ground who are now in the princi-pal’s office screaming, “He hit meback first!”

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For years I havewished that NOTA(“none of the above”) was on theballot. I wonder how often NOTAwould win. If he did, then perhapswe could have a new slate of can-didates which more accurately re-flects the values of the voters.

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Elmwood man arrestedfor knifing fishing buddy

ELMWOOD – Elmwood Policeassisted Hancock County Sher-iff’s deputies early Oct. 21, when67-year-old Dorance Smysor ofElmwood was arrested in connec-tion with a stab-bing Oct. 20 inWarsaw.

The victim,Brial Cleer, 40,of Warsaw,walked to aneighbor’s housefor help, theneighbor calledpolice, and Cleer was airliftedfrom a home at 10th and Craw-ford and taken to Blessing Hospi-tal in Quincy for treatment ofmultiple stab wounds, police said.

Police added that Cleer, Smysorand Terry Hake, 57, of Canton,had been fishing together on Oct.20 when an argument betweenCleer and Smysor led to a physi-cal fight, and Smysor stabbed andcut Cleer with a knife.

The knife allegedly used in thealtercation was recovered atSmysor’s home, Elmwood Policesaid.

Smysor was charged with ag-gravated battery and booked intothe Hancock County Jail.

Also assisting in the investiga-tion were the police departmentsfrom Canton, Hamilton and War-saw, the Hancock County Ambu-lance, Illinois State Police and itsCrime Scene Investigation, thePeoria County Sheriff’s Office,and the Warsaw Ambulance andFire Department.

Routine visit leads topot bust in Princeville

PRINCEVILLE – After a rou-tine visit with a local code en-forcement officer serving awarrant to inspect a home at 313E. High St. here, Peoria CountySheriff’s officers set off a scram-ble inside the house, entered theresidence, and made two arrests

for multiple drug-related charges,according to reports.

Shawn Marksity, 39, and AmyCunningham Marksity, 38, wereboth arrested for possession ofmarijuana, manufacturingcannabis with intent to deliver,production of more than fivecannabis plants, illegal possessionof drug paraphernalia, and ob-struction of justice for attemptingto destroy evidence.

After announcing their pres-ence, officers instructed theMarksity’s to restrain their dog,and Shawn Marksity agreed andshut the door. Instead, however,officers heard someone say “Thecops are here!” and noticed “fran-tic” movement inside. One deputysmelled marijuana and went tothe rear of the home where hesaid he witnessed Amy Marksityapparently moving pot plants andpossibly destroying evidence.

The police then entered the site,found Amy Marksity trying toflush marijuana materials down atoilet, and saw pot plants throughan opening into the attic.

Police reported finding growlights and potting soil in twogrow areas, and said ShawnMarksity claimed he was cultivat-ing marijuana for his own use.

Shawn Marksity has two opencriminal cases tied to marijuanapossession, according to Countycourt records, one from 2005 andone from 2011. Amy Cunning-ham Marksity in 2005 was sen-tenced to court supervision for amarijuana charge.Vandals strike Elmwoodprior to P. Heights game

ELMWOOD – The ElmwoodPolice Department reported sev-eral incidents of vandalismovernight Oct. 23, includingburning a mailbox, defacing sev-eral garages, and vandalizingWest Park.

One officer said they suspectyouth from Peoria Heights, whosefootball team played Elmwood-Brimfield the next night.

A similar incident was reportedseveral years ago prior to a PeoriaHeights game, with arrests made

following the vandalism.

Police Reports• Deanna Christian, 24, of Elm-

wood was ticketed for failure toyield and an expired tag after atwo-car accident on Oct. 6.

• Charles Kennedy, 50, of Elm-wood on Oct. 15 reported thetheft of his 1995 Toyota, whichwas found abandoned in theKnoxville area by Knox Countyauthorities.

• Harms Metal Fabricators ofPrinceville on Oct. 20 reported anattempted break-in. Officers no-ticed evidence of a failed effort topry open the front door.

• Justin Schieferdecker, 26, ofElmwood before 8 a.m. on Oct.20 was ticketed for driving 45miles per hour in a 30 mph schoolzone at Magnolia and ButternutStreets, and also for not havingproof of insurance.

Deer accidents• Oct. 18 – Melissa Denham of

Yates City on U.S. Route 24 nearGlasford Road in Timber Town-ship.

• Oct. 20 – Chad Pyealte ofWashington, on Interstate 74 nearmile marker 67 in Elba Township.

• Oct. 22 – Karma Nguyen ofPeoria on Illinois Route 9 nearDickson Cemetery Road in Rad-nor Township.

• Oct. 22 – Mark Beenken ofBuffalo Center, Iowa, on Inter-state 74 east of Illinois Route 97in Persifer Township.

• Oct. 24 – Natalie Cline ofFarmington on Farmington Roadnear Downs School Road in Triv-oli Township.

• Oct. 24 – Stacy Price ofPrinceville on Illinois Route 9near 102000 W. County LineRoad in Princeville Township.

• Oct. 25 – William Ralston ofElmwood on Interstate 74 nearmile marker 61 in Elba Township.Clarification

• Matthew J. Boehm, 56, ofBrimfield was listed in the Oct.23 edition as having been arrestedfor Driving Under the Influence.Boehm was processed in relationto a previous DUI from 2013.

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I’m sure between now and ElectionDay, still more will come out aboutboth men. This election has become sodirty and mean, I’m not even sure thetwo will shake hands at the end likeopponents sometimes do. They seemto genuinely dislike each other.

The problem is: Who to vote for? DoI cast my vote for a guy who hasclosed many state offices (such as theunemployment office in Galesburg) tosave the taxpayers’ money while refus-ing to live in the governor’s mansion?

Or do I cast my vote for a million-aire who seems to be more concernedabout saving his own taxes than the

programs taxes support?I started leaning toward Rauner be-

cause of the job that Quinn has done,then I remembered that the devil we doknow is sometimes better than thedevil we don’t know.

I’m right back on the fence, notknowing who I’m going to vote for.

Since I’m guessing the ballot won’thave a “none of the above” choice, ifyou want to know how I end up voting,follow me to the booth Election Day.

If I don’t catch the quarter and itlands on the floor, you’ll be able totell. Heads – Quinn, Tails – Rauner.

Maybe we’ll have a decent choice infour years.

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WILLIAMSFIELD – The Williams-field Fire Protection District met onOct. 19, but conducted all its businessin a closed session and took no actionwhen trustees returned to an openmeeting, according to its attorney,Galesburg Lawyer Dawn Conolly.

“Litigation and personnel issueswere discussed in executive session,”she said.

The District and its ambulance pro-gram face a $90,000 fine and revoca-tion of its license to operate over acomplaint that requirements concern-ing oxygen tanks weren’t met, accord-ing to the Illinois Department ofPublic Health (IDPH).

The IDPH is also seeking to revokelicenses held by EMTs Jamie Klein(also Williamsfield’s Fire Chief) andTy Landon, and ambulance coordina-tor and founder Janet Collopy.

Collopy reportedly stepped downvoluntarily.

Conolly didn’t disclose any person-

nel moves, although other resignationshave been reported.

The IDPH initially proposed a set-tlement with the Williamsfield FireProtection District (WFPD), to whichanother WFPD lawyer, Chicago attor-ney Edward Bruno, did not agree. TheIDPH wanted WFPD to admit the alle-gations were against the law and weretrue, but WFPD lawyers say that was“unacceptable,” and “untrue.”

The fine sought stems from a $9,000annual figure for the duration of thealleged infraction – 10 years.

Williamsfield’s ambulance serviceassists about 100 patients a year.

Elsewhere, Dan Congreve, an OakRun resident also on the WFPD rosterof Oak Run First Responders, askedthe State for special permission topractice “at his level of license” andrequested additional equipment forOak Run’s non-transport service. Heis a surgeon and Chief of MedicalStaff at OSF St. Luke Medical Centerin Kewanee.

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It was simply pragmatic – thechurches appreciated the one night theschool did not compete with them forstudent time, which was thereforeavailable for church youth activities,and churches encouraged parishionersto support school activities.

It worked then; I hope it is given achance to work now.

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REPORT CARD: Billtown spending down often. We have been using our owndata through MAP testing to deter-mine where we have opportunitiesfor growth. We have been workingon effective and meaningful inter-vention strategies in math and read-ing for the past three years, with aspecial emphasis being placed onmath for the past year.”

Here are other observations:• In graduating students in four

years, Farmington’s rate went upand the other five all fell, with Elm-wood showing the steepest drop (an11 percent decline).

• In overall operational spendingper student, Brimfield, Elmwoodand Princeville spent more in oper-ating expenditures than last year,Brimfield up 0.4 percent, Elmwoodup 2.2 percent and Princeville 2percent. Farmington was down 2.1percent, and Williamsfield fell 11.9percent.

• And in instructional spendingper student, Elmwood andPrinceville were up, 4.5 percentand 5.8 percent, respectively, whilethe other three were down.

“The Report Card … illustratesthe continued academic achieve-ment by Elmwood students and itsstaff,” said Elmwood Superintend-ent Chad Wagner. But “these dataare just one measurement, andmany more elements contribute tothe overall quality of a school’s ed-ucational environment.”

ISBE is now using multiplemeasurements to evaluate schools,like how much academic growthstudents are making and how welleducators are able to narrowachievement gaps or improve grad-

uation rates. “This metric provides a better

picture of what’s happening in ourschools,” said State Board Chair-man Gery Chico. “It is informationschools and parents can use to ad-dress the reasons for attrition sothat high-quality educators can stayin classrooms and help improvestudent achievement.”

The ISBE raised the scores re-quired to pass beginning in the2013 test year with the idea that itwould better prepare students fortougher exams in the future. Thatcaused many passing rates to fall,along with more difficult questions.

ISBE spokeswoman Mary Fer-gus declined to comment onspecifics, but said the 2014 SchoolReport Cards reflect no changes inhow tests were scored, adding thatit’s “difficult to draw too manyconclusions” about one year of test-ing in which all questions werebased on the more challengingCommon Core standards.

“This year, the state is shiftingtheir assessment model to thePARCC [exam], which is a com-pletely new test for students acrossIllinois,” said Wagner, from Elm-wood. “It will be interesting to seehow they will accurately comparethe data from past, paper-and-pen-cil ISAT and PSAE tests, to thenew on-line version of the PARCCassessments.”

Princeville Superintendent Shan-non Duling and Brimfield Superin-tendent Joe Blessman said they arestill analyzing the data, and As-plund in Farmington questioned thestate’s investment.

“I have no problem with the new

School Report Card, but I have toquestion the massive expense toconvert to the new format,” he said.“At a time when the state is reduc-ing our General State Aid by hun-dreds of thousands of dollars, it isdisappointing to see that the statehas plenty of money to put towardnew report cards and new assess-ments. When I was a track coach, ifsomeone had given me a largeamount of money to invest in mytrack program in order to help myrunners improve, I wouldn’t havespent the money on new stop-watches. I would have spent it oneffective training and material.”

The 2014 Report Card includesperformance results from the state’sprevious assessment system, theISAT, and PSAE, which will be re-placed this spring with the Partner-ship for Assessment of Readinessfor College and Careers (PARCC)exams.

It’s unclear on the status of futurescience testing since new content inbeing taught in schools, but accom-panying statewide performancetests are finished. Also Illinois ap-parently has asked the U.S. Depart-ment of Education for a waiver intesting science this year.

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Dunblazier has lived inHanna City for manyyears, though Klatt isn’tsure how many. But it’senough that trees plantedwhen she and her hus-band Delbert Dunblazierfirst moved into thehome have grown to ma-turity.

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Dunblazier’s favoritebooks belong to the in-spirational fiction cate-gory, but she also enjoysWesterns and partici-pates in the Hanna CityUnited MethodistChurch women’s group’sreading challenge.

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A Knox County tax issue inTuesday’s election is a question ofnumbers – or change, according toKnox County Sheriff DavidClague.

For numbers, voters can choosebetween helping improve the 9-1-1system for a cost of a nickel forevery $20 they spend, or dialingseven digits to reach police, sevendifferent numbers to report a fire,and seven other numbers to sum-mon an ambulance.

As far as change, it’s a matter oftechnological change and pocketchange, Clague says.

“If this doesn’t pass this time,there’s a strong probability that 9-1-1 won’t exist, and instead of the‘one-stop shop’ of calling threenumbers, we’ll have to go back todifferent numbers – even the old‘fire phones’ that volunteer fire de-partments used to have to use.”

Tuesday’s ballot will ask voterswhether they approve a one-quar-ter of one percent retail sales taxincrease.

Voters in Knox County lastspring defeated a public safetysales tax increase that would havehelped support the 911 Center.

Installed in 1995, Knox County’s9-1-1 system is not only anti-quated, Clague says, it’s obsolete.

“They don’t even make parts forit anymore,” says Clague, who’sbeen speaking about the need toupgrade several times a week to

civic groups and on local radiosince the County Board in Augustapproved adding the measure tothe November ballot.

Knox’s 9-1-1 system needs anew switch to continue to serve theCounty’s 33 Emergency MedicalServices, police and fire agencies,say supporters, which also includethe Galesburg City Council,County Townships, and emergencydepartments including Elba-Salemand Williamsfield fire protectiondistricts.

“We don’t have the money to up-grade it,” he says. “And to put it inperspective, if someone spends $25at a restaurant – even visitors toour County – it will mean another6 cents. Six cents!”

Knox County 9-1-1’s 2013 costsfor its Emergency Telephone Sys-tem Board totaled $480,629, ac-cording to a 9-1-1 ServicesAdvisory Board report on 143 Illi-nois systems to the state legislature.

That compares to $882,158 inFulton County and $2.4 million in

Peoria County. Considered on aper-capita level, Knox County’ssystem costs $6.40 per person peryear; Fulton’s costs $25.20 per per-son per years and Peoria’s costs$6.65 per person per year.

The system relies on revenuesfrom a surcharge on landline tele-phones, but those monies havedropped with people’s switch fromlandlines to mobile devices.

“I don’t like taxes any more thananyone else,” Clague says, “butwe’ve lost some 8,000 phones inrecent years – and that funding.

“When people need to call us,they expect an immediate pickup,fast dispatch and prompt arrival,”he continued. “Without an up-grade, we’re jeopardizing publicsafety.”

Knox County took more than75,000 calls last year, says Clague,who thinks the public is starting to realize the urgency.

“A month ago I was not opti-mistic,” he says. “Now, I’d say it’s50-50.

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URBANA – One func-tion of crop markets is todirect planting decisionsby U.S. producers. Thatcan be a complicatedprocess.

“Providing direction forplanted acreage requiresanticipating the level ofold-crop inventoriesavailable for the upcom-ing marketing year, themagnitude of consump-tion during the upcomingmarketing year, the likelyaverage yield, and the de-sired level of year-endingstocks,” said DarrelGood, a University of Illi-nois agricultural econo-mist. “For corn, thesefactors all currently sug-gest that fewer acres ofcorn will likely be neededin the U.S. in 2015.”

In an October “WorldAgricultural Supply andDemand Estimates” re-port, the U.S. Departmentof Agriculture (USDA)projected stocks of old-crop corn at the start ofthe 2015-16 marketingyear will be at a 10-yearhigh – 2.081 billionbushels even with recordlarge consumption of13.655 billion bushels.

“Based on the patternof USDA yield forecastsin previous years, whenthe U.S. average yieldwas well above trendvalue, as is the case thisyear, many expect that thefinal yield estimate thisyear will exceed the Oc-tober forecast of 174.2bushels,” Good said. “Ifthe final 2014 productionestimate is larger than thecurrent forecast and con-sumption is near the cur-rent forecast, year-endingstocks may be near 2.2billion bushels. The large2014 crop and thebuildup in stocks are ex-pected to result in a 2014-15 marketing-year

average farm price in thelow- to mid- $3 level,well below the cost ofproduction for most pro-ducers.”

Good said one way toapproach the question ofhow many corn acres areneeded in 2015 is to de-termine the combinationof production, consump-tion, and year-endingstocks that would result ina 2015-16 marketing-yearaverage farm price closerto the cost of production– estimated to be in thelow $4 range in much ofthe Corn Belt.

According to Good, ifconsumption of U.S. cornduring the 2015-16 mar-keting year remains nearthe record level projectedfor this year, year-endingstocks near 1.64 billion

bushels would represent12 percent of consump-tion. With beginningstocks near 2.2 billionbushels, imports of 20million bushels, and con-sumption of 13.655 bil-lion bushels, a 2015 U.S.corn crop near 13.075 bil-lion bushels would resultin 2015-16 marketing-year-ending stocks near1.64 billion bushels.

With a yield near 162.5bushels in 2015, 80.46

million acres would needto be harvested – 2.65million fewer than theUSDA’s most recent esti-mate of planting acreagefor 2014, 8.895 millionless than the recordacreage of 2012, andequal to acreage plantedin 2010.

Good said the market’sassessment of neededcorn acreage in 2015 mayreflect different condi-tions than assumed here.

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Last year’s long cold wintertook many people by surprise andresulted in damage to otherwisehealthy plants, trees and shrubs.With the Farmer’s Almanac pre-dicting another extremely coldwinter, landscape experts from theProfessional Landcare Network(PLANET), the national land-scape and lawn care association,offer advice to homeowners.1. Water deeply in late fall. Many people think their plants

don’t need water in the winter orthey assume snow melt will pro-vide enough hydration. Plants doneed to have access to water in thesoil during winter.

Watering deeply in late fall be-fore the first frost will help ensurethat they have access to waterafter the ground freezes.2. Wrap plants or smaller trees.Many plant varieties like roses,

butterfly bushes, hydrangeas, andcrape myrtles experienced damagelast winter.

To provide plants with extraprotection from the wind andcold, wrap them in burlap or afrost protection fabric and plantthem along a building or fencethat offers some wind protection.Dead leaves can also be stuffedinside and around branches and atthe base to add extra insulation. 3. Don’t fertilize trees and shrubs

in fall.Plants need to slow down their

growth in the fall to ensure theyharden off and prepare for winter.In general, homeowners shouldstop giving fertilizer to plants wellbefore the first freeze.

Homeowners should always fol-low municipal rules for fertiliza-tion. Some locations regulate thetime of year fertilizer can be ap-

plied.4. Don’t prune plants in late fall. Pruning can encourage new

growth, so it is generally not agood idea to prune most plant va-rieties as winter nears because thecuts may not have time to heal be-fore it freezes.5. Apply anti-desiccant or anti-

transpirant to protect trees. Many tree care or landscape

companies can apply anti-desic-cants to trees to help protect themduring the winter. It coats the treesand can help shield them fromcold winds and dry air if appliedas the manufacturer recommends.

“It is also important that peopleplant trees and bushes in good lo-cations where they have protec-tion from the elements,” saidNikos Phelps, PLANET president.

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Eighth-grade students at BrimfieldJunior High start the year with an in-troduction to basic physics, with thefocus on Newton’s three Laws ofMotion. One way tomake the conceptsreal is to involvestudents by design-ing and building awater rocket usinga two-liter plasticbottle. “Allowingthem to apply their knowledge alsomakes learning it fun,” teacherKevin Faulkner said. Students usemath skills to collect data fromlaunches and to graph their findings.Photos by Lynne Breitbarth.

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Paul HayesPEORIA –Paul W. Hayes, 87, of

Peoria, formerly of Yates City, diedat 1:32 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 23,2014, at his home.

He was born Jan. 10, 1927 in Vi-vian, LA to Virgil R. and MaggieN. (Wood) Hayes.

He is survived by six children,Roger (Joan) Hayes of Fla., Tom(Denise) Hayes ofYates City, Timo-thy (Monica)Hayes of Elm-wood, Mary(Brad) Stevens ofFarmington,Robert (Evelyn)Hayes of Wash-ington, andWayne (Ashley) Hayes of Mar-quette Heights; one brother, Jim“RB” Hayes of Calif.; nine grand-children and four great-grandchil-dren.

He was preceded in death by hisparents, two brothers, and threesisters.

Paul was a veteran of the UnitedStates Army, serving during WorldWar II. He was the owner/operatorof Hayes Autobody in Yates Cityfor many years and retired from re-pair work in 1995.

He enjoyed gardening andspending time at his farm in ruralSchuyler County, where he livedfor many years in the log cabin hebuilt.

Cremation rites have accorded.A memorial service will be held at11:00 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 1,2014 at Elmwood UnitedMethodist Church, with Rev. BradWatkins officiating. Military riteswill be held at the church immedi-ately following services.

Burial will be held at Camp But-ler National Cemetery in Spring-field, at a later date. Oaks-HinesFuneral Home in Elmwood is incharge of arrangements.

Memorials may be made to theElmwood United MethodistChurch.

To leave online condolences,please visit www.oakshinesfuneral-home.com

Herman ‘Fred’ SilzerELMWOOD – Herman Frederick

“Fred” Silzer, 94, of Elmwood,died at 7:35 a.m. Monday, Oct. 27,

2014, at his residence.He was born on Jan. 17, 1920, in

Iowa to Herman F. and Nelle(Hunter) Silzer.

He married Lois E. West in Peo-ria on Aug. 1,1945. She pre-ceded him indeath on Nov. 2,2013.

Other survivorsinclude six chil-dren Allan (Gail)Silzer of Peoria,Tom (Becky)Silzer of Alvin,Gregg Silzer of Elmwood, Laurie(Chuck) Frazer of Elmwood,Penny (Bruce Hoffmann) Silzer ofElmwood and Betsy (Nick Perrow)Silzer of Brimfield, 11 grandchil-dren, Joy (Ed) Fitzgerald, TySilzer, Seth (Alex) Silzer, RhettSilzer, Mark Frazer, Carrie Frazer,Jordan Hoffmann, Kelly Hoff-mann, Cooper Hoffmann, LukeHoffmann, and Alexa Perrow, 8great grandchildren, SydneyFitzgerald, Jack Fitzgerald, OwenSilzer, Liam Silzer, Jett Silzer,Logan Silzer, Maggie Silzer andDaniel Pearson, and one sister Mil-dred Turbett of Hanna City.

He was preceded in death by hisson Randy and sister ElizabethMiles.

Fred was a life-long farmer inthe Elmwood Area and a memberof the Elmwood United MethodistChurch.

Cremation rites have been ac-corded. Oaks-Hines Funeral Homein Elmwood is in charge ofarrangements.

To celebrate Fred’s life, a time of

food and fellowship will be held 5-8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1 at Rose-field Twp. Hall at 16221 W.Southport Rd., Brimfield.

Memorials may be made to theElmwood School cross-countryprogram.

Online condolences may beposted at www.oakshinesfuneral-home.com.

Robert JosephsonWILLIAMSFIELD – Robert L.

Josephson, 85, of Galesburg, for-merly of Williamsfield, died onOct. 24 at OSF St. Mary MedicalCenter in Galesburg.

He is survived by a brother, Rus-sell Josephson of Galesburg and asister, Marian (George) Fidler ofWyoming.

Funeral services were Oct. 29 atRux Funeral Home in Galva, withthe. Rev. Ann Champion officiat-ing. Burial will be in the GalvaCemetery.

Rux Funeral Home in Galva is incharge of arrangements.

Christopher LammertPRINCEVILLE – Christopher Lam-

mert, 40, of Princeville died onOct. 18, at Loyola University Med-ical Center in Maywood.

He married Elizabeth Dunkin onMay 14, 2004, in Farmington,Conn. She survives. He is also sur-vived by his parents of Florissant,Mo.; his sister, Stephanie (Jeffrey)Lauman, and niece and nephews -

A funeral Mass was held on Oct.25 at St. Vincent de Paul CatholicChurch in Peoria, with burial inResurrection Cemetery.

Leave condolences atwww.wrightandsalmon.com.

Anna PeacockFARMINGTON – Anna Mae Pea-

cock, 89, of Eureka, formerly ofFarmington died on Oct. 23 at herhome.

Funeral services were Oct. 27 atArgo-Ruestman-Harris FuneralHome in Eureka, with burial inthe Olio Township Cemetery.

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obituaries for free. Longer obituariescost $1 per column inch and $5 perpicture. Forms are available at TheWeekly Post, 115 W. Main St.; Elm-wood, IL. Or call 309-741-9790.

OBITUARIES

This Week’s Obituaries• Paul Hayes, 87, Yates City• Robert Josephson, 85,Galesburg• Christopher Lammert, 40,Princeville• John Mahnesmith Jr., 86,Wataga• Marie McMillan, 90, EastPeoria • Anna Peacock, 89, Farm-ington• Walter Rosenthal, 78, Del-tona, Fla.• Herman ‘Fred’ Silzer, 94,Elmwood

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BRIMFIELDSt. Paul’s

Lutheran ChurchThe Lutheran Church –

Missouri Synod“Liturgical & Reverential”Pastor Michael Liese

204 W. Clay St., Brimfield(309) 446-3233

Sun. Divine Service: 10 amSun. School: 8:45 amBible Class: 8:45 amBrimfield UnitedMethodist Church

Pastor Leonard Thomas135 S. Galena St., Brimfield

(309) 446-9310Sun. Worship: 9 amSun. School: 9 am

Thurs. Bible Study: 7 pmUnion Church at BrimfieldUnited Church of ChristPastor Stephen Barch105 W. Clay StreetBrimfield, IL 61517(309) 446-3811

Sunday Worship: 9 amTuesday Bible Fun Night: 6 pm

EDWARDSChrist Alive!

Community ChurchPastor Lance Zaerr

9320 W US Hwy 150, Edwards(309) 231-8272

www.christalivecc.comSun. School: 9:15 amWorship: 10:30 amELMWOOD

Crossroads Assembly of GodPastor Tim Cavallo

615 E. Ash St., Elmwood(309) 830-4259

www.crossroadselmwood.orgWed. Worship: 7 pm

Sun. Worship: 10:30 am

Elmwood Baptist ChurchPastor Dennis Fitzgerald

701 W. Dearborn St. Elmwood(309) 742-7631, 742-7911 Sun. School: 9:30 am

Sun Worship: 10:30 am, 6 pmWed. Prayer Meeting: 7 pmFirst Presbyterian Church

of ElmwoodReverend Marla B. Bauler201 W. Evergreen, Elmwood

(309) 742-2631firstpresbyterianofelmwood.orgSun. Worship: 10:30 amSun. School: 9:30 am

St. Patrick’sCatholic ChurchFather Paul Stiene

802 W. Main St., Elmwood(309) 742-4921

Sat. Confession: 3:45 pmSat. Mass: 4:30 pmSun. Mass: 10 am

Tues. Rosary: 8:15 am

United Methodist Church of Elmwood

Pastor Bradley F. Watkins II821 W. Main St., Elmwood

(309) 742-7221www.elmwoodumc.org

Sun. Worship: 9 am, 10:30 amYouth Sun. School: 9 amAdult Sun. School: 8 amFARMINGTON

First Presbyterian Churchof Farmington

83 N. Cone Street, Farmington(309) 245-2914

www.firstpresfarmington.comSunday School: 9:30 amFellowship: 10:30 amWorship: 11:00 am

New Hope FellowshipAssembly of GodPastor Tom Wright

1102 N. Illinois Route 78Farmington, IL(309) 245-2957

Sun. Worship: 10 a.m.Wed. Worship: 7 p.m.YATES CITYFaith United

Presbyterian Church107 W. Bishop St.Yates City, IL 61572(309) 358-1170Worship: 9 am

Sun. School: 10:15 amThurs. Choir: 7 pm

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John Mahnesmith Jr.PRINCEVILLE – John Mahnesmith Jr.,

86, of Wataga, brother of a Yates Citywoman, died on Oct. 18, at HeartlandHealthcare Center in Galesburg.

He is survived by two sons, Allen(Jane) Mahnesmith and Roger (Di-anna) Mahnesmith, both of Wataga;one daughter, Rose (Rob) Robbins ofWataga; seven grandchildren; eightgreat-grandchildren; two sisters,Myrna (Jim) Moats of Yates City andJeanette (Sonny) Lucas of Wataga; twobrothers, Ken (Dixie) Mahnesmith andNorman Mahnesmith, both of Gales-burg; and a brother-in-law.

His funeral was Oct. 22 at Hurd-Hendricks Funeral Home in Knoxville.Interment will take place at the WatagaCemetery.

Leave condolences online atwww.hurd-hendricksfuneralhome.com.

Marie McMillanBRIMFIELD – Marie Eileen McMil-

lian, 90, of East Peoria, mother of aBrimfield woman, died on Oct. 24 ather residence.

Surviving are three daughters,

Michele (Tony) Karl of Brimfield,Linda (Scott) Crawford of Indianapo-lis, and Gail (Dave) Burrows of Peoria;seven grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.

Her funeral was Oct. 28 at Preston-Hanley Funeral Homes & Crematoryin Pekin, with burial in LakesideCemetery in Pekin.

To express condolences online, visitwww.preston-hanley.com.

Walter RosenthalPEORIA – Walter E. Rosenthal, 78, of

Deltona, Fla., grandfather of a Farm-ington woman, died on Oct. 13.

He is survived by his wife, Helen(Gray) Rosenthal; his daughter, Brenda(Ron) Crook, of Yorkville; son Mark(Amy) Rosenthal of Deltona, Fla.; twograndchildren, Jessica (Tyler) Utley ofFarmington, and Shelby Rosenthal(James Messersmith) of Deltona, Fla.;two great-grandchildren; his brother,James (Christine) Rosenthal of Texas;and many nieces and nephews.

A private memorial service was heldin Florida.

OBITUARIES

PRINCEVILLE – Earlier this fall thePrinceville Heritage Museum hosted theRev. Art Allen, who presented the pro-gram “Zeal to Educate Women.”

Nancy Allen, the late wife of ArtAllen, was the author of the book by thesame name. The book chronicles themissionary lives of Alice, Sarah andMary Peters, who were from Princevilleand served as missionaries in Chinafrom 1888-1924.

Allen’s presentation described theirhumble beginnings on a farm in ruralPrinceville through their experiences inChina. The three sisters were sponsoredby the Methodist Episcopal Woman’sForeign Missionary Society (WFMS)and were members of the PrincevilleUnited Methodist Church prior to theirmissionary service.

Research in-cluded a visit tothe PrincevilleHeritage Museumin 2010 to re-search the Petersfamily.

Alice and hermother are buriedin the PrincevilleCemetery. Themuseum did un-cover a few letterswritten that werepublished in thePrinceville Tele-phone which described her experiencesin China.

Copies of the book are available inthe museum for $21.

Museum hosts program on author

Art Allen signs thebook “Zeal to Edu-cate Women” dur-ing a recent visit toPrinceville.



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4507 W. Claredda, Peoria - $270,000Well-cared for brick & stucco home, great neighborhood on cul-du-sac. 5BR, 4 BA. Completely updated throughout. Open floor plan. Finished base-ment, fenced yard & above-ground pool. Motivated seller!

NEW LISTING! - 715 W. Fort, Farmington - $149,900Well-built 3-4 BRm 2 BA brick ranch on nice 1-acre lot on the edge of town.Awesome heated sun porch on back of house & 2-car garage w/workshop.

406 N. Kellogg, Yates City - $144,900Small-town living, nice 4-5 BR home w/fenced back yard, attached 2-cargar., deck & private back yard w/fields behind. Additional 21x18 garage inback. Motivated seller. Come and look today.

61 W. Fulton, Farmington - $144,900 Nice older 3 BR /2.5 BA. Recently added main floor master BR w/walk-incloset & large master bath In-ground pool & nice deck off kitchen.

23340 E. Park Rd., Farmington - $139,900Nice location on the edge of town. Park, lake, tennis & basketball courts justbeyond your back yard. 4BR/2BA. Updated kitchen, 2 fireplaces.

325 N. Second Ave., Farmington - $104,9003BR/ 1.5 BA ranch sits on double corner lot in quiet neighborhood. Largebreezeway & attached garage. Large open living room w/wood-burning fp.Big basement w/bar & storage, could easily be finished.

584 N. Main St., Farmington - $83,900Cute, must see this move-in ready home. Completely remodeled 2 BR, 1BA. Nice patio & landscaped yard, plus detached garage.

NEW LISTING! - 757 N. Avenue B, Canton - $69,900Cute home. Updates in last 5 years include electrical, plumbing, furnace,CA, windows (except 2), plastering, flooring, kitchen remodel w/original re-finished hardwood floors & bathroom remodel too! Fenced back yard. Mainfloor laundry. Move-in ready!

616 N. Grand St., St. David - $67,900Well maintained older home on nice corner lot, 2 BR 1 BA, nice 2-cargarage w/covered patio/carport leading to house. Recent updates includeroof on house & garage, some new carpet & paint.

00 E. Park, Farmington - $19,9001.37 acre building lot on south edge of Farmington. Close to park, lake, fish-ing, tennis & basketball courts. Motivated seller!

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We need your help packing boxes for children who neverexperience the joy of Christmas. The impact on the children

is so much more than toys. I encourage you to enclose a letter of hopeand encouragement to the child. Then by going online and donating$7.00 shipping, you are emailed a printable shipping label. This willallow you to follow your box to its destination.To get a box and information pamphlet contact your local church. All

boxes will be picked up on Nov. 22 by 9:00 am from the ElmwoodMethodist Church and the Brimfield Evangelical Free Church. You may also take your box to the Northwoods Church by Nov. 24.

For more information contact the Methodist Church at 742-7221or Shannon Courtright at 360-6372.

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Williamsfield District 210 is theonly area school included in theIllinois Science and Technology In-stitute (ISTI) expansion of its Re-search & Development STEMLearning Exchange, the ISTI an-nounced this month.

In its second year of implementa-tion, the exchange is a public-pri-vate partnership set up to helpconnect students to careers in Sci-ence, Technology, Engineering andMathematics fields. The initiativecould involve more than 50 cross-sector partners and reach more than1,000 students at the 28 Illinoishigh schools named, includingWashington (Ill.) Community HighSchool.

“The R&D STEM Learning Ex-change’s mission is to spark inter-

est and prepare students for R&Dcareers to build a pipeline of pro-fessionals that become Illinois’ fu-ture innovators,” said Mark Harris,president & CEO of the ISTI, anaffiliate of the Illinois Science &Technology Coalition.

“The growth of this program andour strong public-private coalitionhas allowed us to increase the ap-plied learning opportunities andcareer exploration for more Illinoisstudents.”

The program can arrange con-nections between students and avariety of companies, such as Illi-nois State University’s Center forRenewable Energy, Microsoft, Mo-torola Solutions and NorthropGrumman.

Also, through the affiliated Men-tor Matching Engine, high schoolstudents and their teachers can link

to a network including ArgonneNational Laboratory and the Uni-versity of Illinois at Urbana-Cham-paign.

“Microsoft is thrilled to partnerwith the R&D STEM Learning Ex-change,” said Shelley Stern Grach,Director of Technology and CivicInnovation at Microsoft. “By incor-porating the inter-disciplinary R&DSTEM Challenge into curriculum,and applying STEM principles toreal-life situations, the students willsee STEM ‘come alive’ inside andoutside of the classroom.”

The R&D STEM Learning Ex-change is part of Illinois Pathways,a $10.3 million initiative launchedin 2012 by Gov. Quinn to betterprepare students to compete in theglobal economy.

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Scoring SummaryFirst Quarter

EB - Houlihan 1 run (Roling kick)EB - Wyatt 66 run (Roling kick)EB - Wyatt 60 interception return (Rol-ing kick)EB - Bowers 33 yard blocked punt re-turn (Roling kick)EB - Sollenberger 11 run (Roling kick)

Second QuarterEB - Roling 29 FGEB - Wyatt 3 run (Roling kick)EB - Marincic 13 run (Roling kick)

Third QuarterEB - Roling 20 FG

Fourth QuarterEB - Bowers 27 run (Roling kick)

Team StatisticsPH EB

Rushes 19 33Rush yds 6 312Yds per carry 0.3 9.5Pass Att 19 5Pass Comp 6 3Had Intercepted 1 0Pass yds -8 31

Individual StatisticsRushing - Sollenberger 7-116, Wyatt4-90, Bowers 3-53, D.McCoy 4-36,Fales 6-31, Marincic 3-20, McKinty 2-10, McQuellon 1-9, Hart 1-7, Houlihan1-3.Passing - Houlihan 2-4-0 11, McK-inty 1-10-20.Receiving - White 1-20, Totton 1-0,Demmin 1-1.Tackles - N.McCoy 5, Stephens 5,

Johnson 3, Gilles 3, Roling 3, Fales 3.

Farmington 46Rushville-Industry 22

Rushville-Ind 0 6 8 8 – 22Farmington 14 12 12 8 – 46


F - Lozier 51 pass from Gilstrap (con-version good)F - Lozier 32 pass from Gilstrap (conv.failed)

Second QuarterF - Gilstrap 10 run (conv. failed)RI - #44 14 pass from #8 (kick failed)F - Berry 28 pass from Gilstrap (conv.failed)

Third QuarterRI - #44 15 interception return (conv.good)F - Martinez 5 run (conv. failed)F - Jepson 43 pass from Gilstrap(conv. failed)

Fourth QuarterRI - #8 2 run (conv. good)F - Gilstrap 45 run (conv. good)

Individual StatisticsRushing - Gilstrap 7-203, Martinez 5-33, Balagna 3-2.Passing - Gilstrap 12-21-1 251.Receiving - Lozier 2-83, Berry 4-52,Jepson 2-85, Fruendt 2-26, Balagna 2-5.Tackles - Martinez 9, Lozier 8, Jepson

7, Garcia 7, Isbell 6.

Stark Co. 38, Princeville 14Stark Co. 0 14 10 14 – 38Princeville 7 0 7 0 – 14


P - Janssen 4 run (Janssen kick)Second Quarter

SC - Johnston 34 run (Helleberg kick)SC - Goodman 12 run (Helleberg kick)

Third QuarterP - Harrison 5 pass from Janssen(Janssen kick)SC - Helleberg 32 FGSC - Dorsey 18 int. return (Hellebergkick)

Fourth QuarterSC - Hicks 3 pass from Charvat (Helle-berg kick)SC - Hollis 22 run (Helleberg kick)

Team StatisticsSC Prin

First Downs 21 10Rushes 45 31Rush yds 300 85Yds per carry 6.7 2.7Pass Att 18 24Pass Comp 9 12Had Intercepted 0 2Pass yds 92 189

Individual StatisticsRushing - Janssen 12-31, Green 8-28, Harrison 11-26.Passing - Janssen 12-24-2 189.Receiving - Harrison 5-103, Smith4-49, Green 1-20, Sheets 2-16, Thole1-1.Tackles - Janssen 14, Eads 9, Mar-

tin 9, Remmert 8, Simmons 7, Del-bridge 6, Sheets 4, Hefler 4, Jenkins4.

FINAL STANDINGSPrairieland Blue

Overall ConfW L W L

Elmwood-Brim 7 2 5 0Knoxville 6 3 4 1Farmington 5 4 3 2West Prairie 3 6 2 3Havana 2 7 1 4Beardstown 0 9 0 5

Last FridayElmwood-Brim. 61, Peoria Heights 0Farmington 46, Rushville-Ind. 22Lewistown 55, Beardstown 12Havana 29, North Fulton 28A-Town 52, Knoxville 0South Fulton 41, West Prairie 0

This SaturdayElmwood-Brimfield vs. Monticello, 3pm (Class 3A) Knoxville at Spring Valley Hall, 1 pm(Class 2A)

Lincoln TrailOverall ConfW L W L

Stark County 9 0 7 0Mercer Co. 7 2 6 1Princeville 7 2 5 2United 5 4 4 3Annawan-Weth. 5 4 3 4Mid-County 3 6 2 5Ridgewood 3 6 1 6West Central 0 9 0 7

Last FridayStark County 38, Princeville 14Mercer County 21, United 14Ridgewood 57, West Central 14Annawan-Weth. 21, Mid-County 14

This SaturdayPrinceville at Chicago Hope, 6 pm(Class 1A)United at Stark County, 1 pm (1A)Orion at Mercer County, 1 pm (2A)Annawan-Wetherfield at Rockridge,1 pm (2A)

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VOLLEYBALL: Farmington rallies

XC: Boys field not as strong as last year

LAMPE: Lincoln Trail teams are ‘battle tested’

“We’ve still got to make anothermove, but that was definitely a stepin the right direction,” said E-Bcoach Gregg Meyers, whose teamis ranked third in the final DyeStatpoll behind top-ranked Monticelloand Tolono Unity. “We looked a lotsharper, we looked like we wereracing.”

Another boost at sectional couldcome from sophomore John Bar-ratt, a top-seven runner on lastyear’s state champion squad who isexpected to compete for the fifthspot Saturday.

“They’ll get a little more rest thisweek and next so they should beready to go,” Meyers said.

Unlike last year, when E-B fin-ished fourth at sectional beforewinning at state, the Elmwoodboys field is not as strong.

The opposite is true for the girls

race, which features five of thestate’s top 14 teams according toDyeStat: No. 2 Petersburg Porta,No. 4 Rochester, No. 10 Rock Is-land Alleman, No. 11 Eureka andNo. 14 Elmwood.

Given that, it’s a good thing theE-B girls have shown signs ofpeaking at the right time.

“If you would have asked meeight weeks ago I’d say we werehoping for fifth” at sectional, E-Bcoach Hayley Davis said. “Nowwe’re gunning for top three.”

Davis is optimistic after severalstrong meets of late, a good re-gional and a “fantastic practice” onMonday. She noted Elmwood wasjust 21 points behind Alleman atFarmington and 12 back of Eureka.

Senior Kendra Gorham placedeighth in 19:39 to lead Elmwood-Brimfield, senior Hannelore Bookwas 10th in 19:47, freshman Emily

McCauley was 15th in 20:07, sen-ior Taylor Armbruster was 21st in20:29 and sophomore Cassie Karnwas 22nd in 20:30.

“Our top-five split was 50 sec-onds which was good,” Davis said.“If we can all get under 20 minutes(at the sectional) that would be fan-tastic.”

E-B assistant Tom Gorham pre-dicts improvement from McCauleyand Armbruster at sectional, notingthey have yet to wear spikes.

Elsewhere, in boys action at theRock Falls Regional, Princevillehad two individuals advance to theOregon Sectional: senior LeifPhillips (16:56) and freshmanCreigh Schock (18:10).

In girls action, Princeville was10th at Rock Falls led by seniorJaNae Knobloch, who was 12th in20:56 and advanced to the OregonSectional.

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There’s merit to that line ofthinking. Fact is, a loss against agood team is often better than awin over a weak team, the likes ofwhich are all too common in thePrairieland Conference.

If nothing else, having LincolnTrail foes helped secure a homegame for the 7-2 Trojans.

“I thought we were going to beon the road. I didn’t think we’dhave enough points,” Hollis said.“I’d say the Lincoln Trail helpedus out.”

We’ll find out soon. Monticellohas a pass-happy spread formationand can put up points – as in a 58-55 win over Tolono Unity. Yes,that’s the same Unity team that

has lost only once and has beenranked third in Class 3A for muchof the year.

But enough about Elmwood. Princeville should be proud of

its play this fall. The Princes wereright there with Stark County latein the third quarter Friday nightand in their only other loss of theseason (to Mercer County) werevictimized by a blown coverage.

Going 5-2 in the LTC, as thePrinces did, means something.You stand toe-to-toe with StarkCounty for three quarters and youcan feel good about going any-where – even Chicago – and hav-ing a chance.

“You come out of the LincolnTrail and you are going to be bat-tle-tested,” Princes coach Jon Car-ruthers said. “Chicago Hope isgoing to be a handful. And their

interior line is big. But I told ourkids in meetings Monday that Idon’t think their line is as good asStark County’s line.”

That’s probably true, but unfor-tunately I don’t see either areasquad winning on Saturday.

While E-B should be able to runand score against Monticello, thequestion remains whether the Tro-jans can stop a passing attack.

And while Princeville is a hard-hitting, rugged team blessed withseveral athletes, the trip toChicago and a game on turfagainst a foe blessed with speed isan awful lot to overcome.

I hate to pick against areateams. But deadline calls and mybrain tells me ... Monticello 36, Elmwood-Brim-field 26Chicago Hope 30, Princeville 20

got a girl who hitsquicks a lot,” Waid said.“I think it will be a goodmatch. I really do.”

Elsewhere, Farming-ton (11-18) rallied tobeat West Central 19-25,25-16, 25-23 at the Class2A Abingdon Regional.

Paige Paisley had 17kills and Maicee Ralstonhad 27 assists.

The Farmers advanceto today’s regional finalagainst top-seed United

at 6 p.m. United won 25-12, 25-15 Tuesdayagainst Spoon River Val-ley.

In Class 2A action,Brimfield-Elmwood lostits first regional contestat Eureka to Illini Bluffs,17-25, 25-14, 25-12.

The Lady Indiansstarted strong in theopening set, but couldnot maintain control.

“We were able to con-trol the game and playour game,” B-E coach

Troy Tilly told the Peo-ria Journal Star. “Wewere able to get aggres-sive right away.”

That did not last in thenext two games, as IlliniBluffs (15-8-1) usedstrong serving and hit-ting to record its secondwin of the season overB-E (16-13).

Morgan Florey andRachel Jacobson led theIndians with 14 digsapiece while Payton Teelhad six kills.

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FOOTBALL: Chicago Hope led by pair of speedy running backs22.7 yards per catch.

“His receivers are verygood scrambling aroundand getting open once aplay breaks down,” Hol-lis said.

But on defense Monti-cello is yielding nearly200 rushing yards pergame and is “not verybig,” Hollis said.

“The teams we’vewatched them play thatrun the ball well havebeen able to move theball,” Hollis said. “Atthat point sometimes itgets into a track meet ofcan you run the ball aswell as they are going tothrow the ball.”

Monticello also has anace on the sidelines inveteran coach Cully Wel-ter, who in his previousjob was 113-22 in 11 sea-sons at Aledo, winningthree state titles and fin-ishing second twice.

Stark County 38Princeville 14

PRINCEVILLE – Forthree quarters Friday, thePrinces were right therewith state-ranked LincolnTrail Conference champStark County (9-0, 7-0).

With Mitchell Janssenthrowing the ball welland flying all over the

field on defense, thePrinces (7-2, 5-2) werewithin 17-14 after a fieldgoal.

But on the Princes’next possession, TylerDorsey intercepted ascreen pass and returnedit 18 yards for a back-breaking touchdown.

“The wind kind ofwent out of our sails,”Princes coach Jon Car-ruthers said. “You can’tmake mistakes against agood team like StarkCounty. They will takeadvantage of it.”

That negated stronggames by Janssen (12-of-24 for 189 yards) and re-ceiver Zach Harrison,who caught five passesfor 103 yards and a score.

That’s also a good les-son for the Princes head-ing into Saturday’s Class1A game at ChicagoHope, bumped back to 6p.m. by rugby matcheson the artificial turf fieldearlier in the day.

Turf helps Hope (8-1),which is blessed withvery good team speed,according to Carruthers.

Top backs LafayetteMcGary and KeandreMurph have run for mostof the team’s 2,000+rushing yards.

“They are going to be ahandful,” Carruthers said.“You watch one film andit’s (Murph) doing all thedamage. You watch thenext film and (McGary)looks like Barry Sandersjumping around.”

“Life is full of experi-ences and the kids won’tever forget this one.”

While the backs getmost of the press, Hopecoach Stephen Pagh saidhis line has played well.

“We’ve grown a couplekids through the systemand are relatively youngup front, but we do havesize,” said Pagh, whoseteam has reached theplayoffs in two of histhree seasons.

Pagh said he is im-

pressed with Princeville’soffensive balance andwith Janssen.

“Hes got a pretty livearm and seems to makegood decisions,” Paghsaid.

Farmington 46Rushville-Industry 22FARMINGTON – Jun-

ior quarterback StevenGilstrap put on a show asthe Farmers (5-4) didtheir part to become play-off eligible.

Gilstrap was 12-for-21passing for four touch-downs and 251 yards andran for another 203 yardsand two scores on just

seven carries.Josh Lozier caught TD

passes of 51 and 32 yardsand Cody Jepson had a43-yard scoring grab.

“(Gilstrap) playedgreat, easily his bestgame of the year,” coachToby Vallas said. “Hehad been in a double-wing offense until thisyear and I asked him toread the field and throwmore. In the past fewweeks he’s really startedto understand what wewant him to do.”

Gilstrap was 9-for-11for three TDs and 160yards in the first half and

ran for another score asthe Farmers grabbed a26-6 lead in a must-wingame. For the season, heran for 857 yards andpassed for 1,213.

Ultimately, the victorywas not enough to boostFarmington into the Class3A postseason.

“We had done the mathand knew it was a long-shot,” Vallas said. “But Ithink we got better andbetter as the season wenton. That we were playingour best football at theend of the year is a goodsign heading into nextyear.”


Zach Harrison had 103yards and a touchdownon five catches forPrinceville last Friday.Photo by Jeff Lampe.

Junior quarterback Steven Gilstrap (6) had an impressive season-ending gamefor Farmington, leading the Farmers to a 46-22 win over Rushville-Industry. Hecompleted 12 of 21 passes for 251 yards and four touchdowns and ran for twomore scores and 203 yards in seven carries. Photo by Crystal Prahl.



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Trojans, Princes prepare for playoffs

By JEFF LAMPEWeekly Post Staff Writer

Princeville and Farmingtonopened the volleyball postseasonwith victories.

The Lady Princes downed hostWilliamsfield 25-23, 25-23 Tuesdaynight behind 10 kills from freshmanLucy Waid in a Class 1A regionalsemifinal.

Anna Schupbach had 7 digs,Claire Berchtold had 18 assists andTasha Martin had 3 aces.

“It wasn’t that we played bad, wejust seemed flat,” Princeville coachShan Waid said. “It wasn’t us at all.It’s been eight days since weplayed, which is a really long time.”

Princeville’s performance wasenough to offset a strong showingby Billtown, which got 6 kills fromMadison Stewart, 5 blocks fromTaylor Dorethy, 8 digs from HaleySmith and 11 assists from KimmyCampbell.

Princeville (23-7) advances toface top-seed Hartsburg-Emden inthe regional final Thursday at 7p.m. Hartsburg beat Delavan 25-6,25-6 on Tuesday.

“They’re real quick on their feet,they play good defense and they’ve


Last Friday’s end of the reg-ular season elicited a mix ofreactions from local footballprograms: playoff fever forElmwood-Brimfield andPrinceville and plans for thefuture for Farmington.

Here’s a look at the finalgame for all three teams andpreviews of playoff matchups.

Elmwood-Brimfield 61Peoria Heights 0

ELMWOOD – You can for-give the Trojans if they startedpondering their next gameearly in this blowout.

E-B (7-2) jumped to a 35-0

first quarter lead against hap-less Heights (0-9) and thenused a stream of substitutes tohold on for the shutout.

Top rusher Layne Wyattsaw limited action but scoredon a 66-yard run and tackedon a 60-yard interception re-turn for a score moments later.

The Trojans also got twoscores from Tommy Bowers,one on a blocked punt return,the other a 27-yard run.

Wyatt doesn’t figure to restin E-B’s Class 3A home play-off game against Monticello(6-3) Saturday at 3 p.m. Tothe contrary, Wyatt – who has1,362 rushing yards thisyear – and his offensive matesneed to be in top scoring formto keep up with the Sages.

Monticello comes to Elm-wood with a pass-happyspread offense that averages37 points per game.

“They run the ball just tokind of keep you honest. Theywant to spread you out andline up and throw the ball,” E-B coach Todd Hollis said.“We saw that with Farming-

ton and Abingdon.”Hollis acknowledged that in

those games the Trojans hadproblems on pass defense.

“If nothing else the Farm-ington and Abingdon gamespointed out things we need tofix,” he said. “The next thingis fixing it.”

That means slowing Monti-cello’s 6-foot-4, 195-poundquarterback Brandon Wild-man, who has passed for2,574 yards and 28 touch-downs. The Sages also havefive receivers with 20 or morecatches, led by NoahFreemon’s 39 receptions for

Princeville,FarmingtonVB advance

Continued on Page 18


Junior Matt Osmulski placed first in 15:22 to lead Elmwood Brimfield’s first-placeteam finish at Saturday’s Farmington Regional. Photo by Dave Giagnoni.

ON TO SECTIONALS

Trojans XC peaking at right time

Ponderingthe pigskinpostseason


FARMINGTON – Theseason starts in earnest onSaturday for Elmwood-Brimfield cross country.

While many teams raceall season for trophies andtitles, the Trojans way isall about the postseason.And with one hurdledown at last week’s re-gional prelude, the focusis now on Saturday’s sec-tional – and the next step

beyond that.Based on regional re-

sults, both the boys andgirls teams look to be ingood position headinginto the races at MapleLane Country Club. Girlsrun at 10:30 a.m., boys at11:15.

Junior Matt Osmulskiwon the Class 1A Farm-ington Regional in 15:22last Saturday, six secondsahead of senior teammateNate Herridge (15:28),

who was second. Overall E-B had four of

the top seven boys finish-ers – senior Kelly Hoff-mann was sixth in 15:35and sophomore DerekMcCoy was seventh in15:37 – and five of the top19, with a 1-5 gap of 59seconds to senior TylerMeyers (16:31).

Freshman Carter Hintzplaced 43rd in 17:52 tolead Farmington.


Playoff football is that odd timeof the fall when you see some un-known team with a 6-3 or 5-4record beat up on a ranked 8-1team. Afterwards, you are left toponder, “What happened?”

The answer, more often than not,is that the team with the not-so-pretty record played in a strongconferencewhile the otherbeat up weak-lings to pad apretty record.

Which is aroundabout wayof saying folksin Elmwood andBrimfieldshould be leeryof Saturday’s home game, whilefolks in Princeville should not losehope just because they have tovoyage to Chicago.

First to E-B. Saturday’s foeMonticello may be 6-3, but thatrepresents six wins in one of thebest small-school leagues around.

How good is the Okaw ValleyConference? Consider that leaguemember Maroa-Forsyth won statetitles in 2012 and 2006 and wassecond in 2009 and 2010; TolonoUnity has four second-place fin-ishes in Class 3A (2012, 2009,2005 and 2000); and St. Joseph-Ogden has placed second threetimes in Class 3A (2013, 2006,1999) and twice more in Class 2A(1997, 1989).

That’s a lot of trophies and a lotof tough hombres – the type ofteams that force you to be betterprepared for the playoffs.

Given that, the timing for thisyear’s upgrade of the E-B schedulecould not have been better. Thanksto the inclusion of Lincoln Trailfoes Mercer County and Annawan-Wethersfield – and drastic im-provement in A-Town – E-Bplayed a much better slate this fall.

Yes, the Trojans are 1-2 in thosegames. But you can learn from los-

JeffLAMPE


Saturday’s Games• Monticello (6-3) at Elm-wood-Brimfield (7-2), 3 p.m.• Princeville (7-2) at ChicagoHope (8-1), 6 p.m.

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