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Carrier Route PresortThursdayApril 2, 2015Vol. 3, No. 6

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

Area school financing takes another hard hit

Common goalfor candidatesin Farmington

Residentsvoice roadcomplaints

By MICHELLE SHERMANFor The Weekly Post

FARMINGTON – Continuing to pro-vide Farmington students with a 21st-century education is a common goalshared by the five candidates for Farm-ington Community Unit School District265 Board of Education.

At a Meet the Candidates forum onMarch 24, all five candidates – three in-cumbents andtwo newcomers –answered ques-tions posed bymembers of theaudience of about40. Questionsranged from classsizes in grades K-2 to school uni-forms and frombudget cuts tosupporting the arts.

Incumbents Kelly Threw, DakotaHorn and Todd Guidi all touted stridesmade in further integrating technologyinto classrooms and cutting-edge proj-ects such as District 265’s solar panelproject which is nearing completion asproof that they have served the commu-nity well during previous terms.

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The fate of what area resi-dents for decades havedubbed “Breakneck Hill”may be at stake after a hear-ing Friday (March 27) beforePeoria County EngineerAmy Benecke McLaren inresponse to three propertyowners on Greengold Roadcomplaining about its condi-tion.

Represented by attorneyChester Fuller, rural neigh-bors Cheryl Harden, MikeInnes and Ron Nelson alltestified that GreengoldRoad between Murphy Roadand Illinois Route 116 northand east of Hanna City is insuch bad shape it’s causeddamage to vehicles, pre-vented companies from in-suring homes because ofinadequate access, and pre-vented Ameren from readingmeters.

In the evidence-gatheringsession, convened accordingto state law, Harden testifiedthat Rosefield Township

By BILL KNIGHTFor The Weekly Post

The Illinois General Assem-bly last week passed a stopgapmeasure to address a $1.6 bil-lion budget shortfall throughJune, and its 2.25 percent,across-the-board cuts includemore reductions to education– on the heels of new findingsthat show previous fundingwoes have hit schools hard.

School finances are soshaky that the area school dis-trict with the best FinancialProfile ranking – Williams-

field, with a perfect 4.00 – isdeficit spending just like theother four districts in TheWeekly Post area. (See box atright).

Reacting to the stop-gapmeasure, the Illinois StateBoard of Education (ISBE)expressed apprehension.

“While we understand thedire circumstances facing thestate, we have grave concernsabout these cuts and their im-pact to school districts, espe-cially this late in the fiscalyear,” says ISBE’s Mary Fer-

gus. “These districts have verylittle leeway to absorb thesecut and make the necessaryfiscal adjustments this late inthe fiscal year given thespending pressures they’re al-ready under.”

The state’s school districtsalready show the burden ofoperating with fewer govern-ment funds, according to theISBE, which recently showedthat 64.2 percent of Illinoisdistricts are projected todeficit-spend this school year.

Fewer districts score at the

By JEFF LAMPEWeekly Post Staff Writer

KICKAPOO – Huntersin Illinois attend safetyclasses each spring be-cause they have to – andbecause they want to besafer in the field.

But what draws flocksof people to safety classesat the Kickapoo Sports-man’s Club is the food and

the hospitality – hallmarksof a series of classes thatlast weekend celebrated 30years at the club.

The Kickapoo class isbelieved to be the fourth-longest running in Illinoisand started during a con-versation at the old GillesTap in Kickapoo.

“We were sitting atNorma’s (Gilles Tap) and

started talking about howthe NRA used to do safetyclasses,” Larry Kelch re-called. “After that, westarted making somephone calls and...”

Next thing he knewKelch was in charge of thePeoria area’s most popularhunter safety classes.Since they started offering

From left to right, Cynthia Brewer, Phil Blackburn and Larry Kelch share a laugh whilerecognizing 30 years of Illinois hunter safety classes at the Kickapoo Sportsman’sClub. Photo by Jeff Lampe.

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Local school financingSchool Financial 2015 budget Revenue % fromDistrict Profile deficit state funding

Brimfield 3.70 - Recognition $104,880 20.7Elmwood 3.55 - Recognition $447,403 30.6Farmington 3.65 - Recognition $863,524 42.3Princeville 3.45 - Review $586,051 31.7Williamsfield 4.00 - Recognition $509,198 10.4

NOTE: Brimfield has improved from 2013, when it was under Review;Elmwood in 2003 was Early Warning; Farmington was under Review in2006 and 2007, and Watch in 2005; Princeville is unchanged from Re-view status from 2013; and Williamsfield has been a perfect 4.00 since2007, when its 3.65 was still determined a Recognition.

SOURCE: Illinois State Board of Education

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ROAD: ‘Breakneck Hill’ nearly impassableroad crews have tried totake out ruts on thegravel road, but twohills and a sinkhole thatemerged last June maketraveling difficult.

Nelson testified thathe’s never talked to aroad commissioner, butagreed that emergencyvehicles can’t get to thearea from the west.

“It’s virtually impassa-ble,” he said. “It’s an ac-cident waiting tohappen.” In Innes’ testimony, he

conceded that he has ac-cess to his property butit’s in terrible shape, andhis appeals to State Sen.Darin LaHood’s officeand trustees at bothRosefield and LoganTownships haven’thelped.

Greengold is on theborder between Rose-field and Logan Town-ships, and the IllinoisDepartment of Trans-portation has determinedthat Rosefield is respon-sible for less than half amile and the rest isLogan’s obligation.

“I’ve been to bothtownship meetings andthey won’t listen. Theyjust ignore me,” Innes

said. “I get nothing formy tax dollars.”

For his part, RosefieldRoad CommissionerMatt Windish didn’t dis-pute Greengold’s condi-tion.

“I appreciate the inputand ideas [and] I under-stand the frustration,”said Windish, who’sbeen in office for abouttwo years. “The road’shorrible. I agree thatsomething needs to bedone.”

The problem, he said,is balancing needs andresources.

Fixing that stretch ofroad could run some$75,000, Windish said,and the township re-ceives about $500 a year

from state Motor FuelTax revenues for main-taining the 0.44 mile ofroad where three peoplelive.

“I can’t justify funding[that] to help someone’sconvenience” to accessproperty from the westin addition to accessfrom the east, he said. “Idon’t know where thefunding is to fix it.”

State law says thecounty can order“proper and necessary”repairs “when there aresufficient funds to per-mit a compliance withsuch order.”

McLaren said shehopes to rule on the peti-tion in about two weeks.

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Mike Innesdiscusses thepoor conditionof GreengoldRoad during ahearing withPeoria Countylast week.Photo by BillKnight.

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THE WEEK AHEAD

This Week’s Eventss St. Jude Meeting – Anyone inter-

ested in the Elmwood to Peoria St. Juderun on Aug. 1 should attend a meetingtoday (April 2) at 7 p.m. at the Elm-wood Tap banquet hall. Contact LynnTannock at (309) 303-2411 or [email protected].

s Maundy Thursday – Maundy Thurs-day Service with communion at FirstPresbyterian Church of Farmington, 83N. Cone St. in sanctuary at 6 p.m. today(April 2) followed by simple meal inFellowship Hall.

s Tanebrae Service –Jessica Baldyga willlead a Tanebrae Servicehosted by FarmingtonCouncil of Churches at6:30 p.m. Friday (April3) in the sanctuary ofFirst Presbyterian Church of Farming-ton, 83 N. Cone St..

s Free Bread – Free bread is availableFriday (April 3) at 10 a.m. at ElmwoodMethodist Church.

s Easter Egg Hunt – Princeville LionsClub has its Easter egg hunt Saturday(April 4) at noon at Cutter’s Grove Park.

s Easter Celebration – Easter Celebra-tion Service Sunday (April 5) at 10 a.m.at Brimfield Evangelical Free Church,11724 N. Maher Rd. 8:30 a.m. Eastermorning breakfast. Call (309) 446-3571or [email protected].

s St. Jude Fishing – Annual Fishingfor St. Jude family fun day May 3 from1-4 p.m. at Brimfield Community Park.Contact [email protected]. T-shirtdeadline April 7.

s Knitting Meeting – Next meeting ofthe Heart of Illinois Knitting Guide isApril 7, 9 a.m. at Memorial Hall atMaple Lawn Homes, Eureka. BobbieJennings and Paula Emons-Fuessle willgive a program on chart reading andadding life lines when knitting lace. All

knitters or want-to-be-knitters welcometo attend. Call to ask for a supply list,Char Rickey (309) 472-7085.

s Antler Contest – Shed Antler contestthrough April 15. Bring sheds to Elm-wood Insurance Agency, 102 E. Main,Elmwood. Call (309) 742-2141. Topthree entries scored. Free t-shirt for eachentry. This year’s sheds only.

Future Eventss Movie Time – All ages invited to

watch “Big Hero 6” from 3:30- 5:30p.m. at the Brimfield Public Library.Popcorn provided. Children in Pre-K

must be accompanied byan adult.

s Family Bingo –Family Bingo April 9 at6 p.m. at Mary and Mor-rison Wiley Library,Elmwood. Call (309)742-2431.

s SAMS Fund Raiser – SAMS fifthannual Beer & Wine Tasting fund raiserApril 10, 4:30-8 p.m. at Barracks on Pio-neer Parkway. Tickets $35 in advance,$40 at the door.

s School Play – The Elmwood HighSchool Drama Club presents the play“Arsenic and Old Lace” April 10 and 11at 7 p.m. in the school auditorium. Cost$6 adults, $4 students.

s Farmington Musical – “High SchoolMusical 2 on Stage” performed April 10-12 at Farmington High School. Showtimes for April 10-11 at 7 p.m.; April 12at 2 p.m.

s Bass Seminar – Pro-staff anglerDustin Taylor gives a free bass fishingseminar April 11 at 1 p.m. at The GreatOutdoors in Knoxville, 205 E. MainStreet. Call (309) 388-0159.

s Alumni Banquet – Elmwood’s 80thannual Alumni Banquet is April 25 at6:30 p.m. in the Grade School gym.Tickets $18 at Jordan’s Mobil and Elm-wood Pharmacy until April 15.

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FARMINGTON – I left thesprawling Farmington Centralcomplex Tuesday evening ponder-ing the importance of schools inour communities.

Outside Farmington’s relativelynew facility, parents, athletes andfans were busywith a baseballgame, a trackmeet and softballpractice.

Inside, singerstuned up for nextweek’s musicalwhile tutorshelped young-sters strugglingin one academicsubject or another.

Everywhere you looked, peopleof all ages were walking around,squinting happily at the return ofour long-lost friend, the sun. Therewas no busier place in Farmingtonon this fine spring afternoon.

So it goes quite often, and notjust in Farmington. That’s the casein any town with a school – a factmagnified even more by the quietthat settles when kids are not in ses-sion.

Schools play a huge role in ourlives. That’s a critical factor to con-sider with an election looming andwith a statewide financial crisis stillin full bloom.

Surely it’s no coincidence theonly contested races in next week’sApril 7 election are for school

board. Elmwood, Farmington andPrinceville all have more candi-dates running than spaces availableon their boards.

Meanwhile, every other local of-fice is there for the taking: Run andyou will win, my favorite kind ofrace.

Why the interest in schoolboards?

Money? Sure. Keeping an eye onwhere all those tax dollars are spentappeals to some.

Sports? Unfortunately. More thanone Illinois board member hasthrown their hat into the ring to geta coach fired – or to assure a childextra playing time.

Education? Hopefully that’s auniversal reason. What and howwell we teach our children has a di-rect impact on our lives.

(On a side note, I applaud anycandidate who grumbles about test-ing. Kids are spending too muchtime in standardized tests.)

Consider all possible motivationsas you vote Tuesday. And please,make sure to vote. The schoolboard members we elect will facean increasingly difficult job.

On the front page of this issueBill Knight penned an informativestory about the latest budget cutsthat will impact our area schools.

While the Illinois State Board ofEducation disagrees, I think manyof Gov. Rauner’s cuts are needed –in education and elsewhere. Wecan’t afford to maintain the status

quo of our broken system, wherethe loudest lobbyists maintain fund-ing for their employers and sendIllinois spiraling into a deeperdeficit.

That is not to suggest schoolboards are at fault for Springfield’sstupidity. But school boards willhave to help solve the problems ourpoliticians have hatched withdecades of shortsighted decisions.

Some of that will be by continu-ing to make the cuts boards havegrudgingly approved for severalyears now.

I also think taxpayers need toface the reality we will pay morefor our schools.

I sometimes hear people saywhat a bad job their local superin-tendent or school board is doing.I don’t listen much. While I’m surethere are areas for improvement,overall I’d rather let local schoolboards spend my money than ca-reer politicians in Springfield who Inever bump into at the grocerystore.

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Warning: This is a column aboutbaseball. If you don’t like baseball– tough. I’m writing it anyway.

Those who follow the columnknow that I’m aDodger fan andhave been sincethe early 1960s. My dad tried toturn me into aChicago Cubsfan early on bytaking me to agame in which aguy named SandyKoufax pitched for the Dodgers,and the magic is still there some 50years later.

Having said that, I do feel sorryfor the Cubs sometimes. I mean,here’s a team that hasn’t been in aWorld Series since the year wedropped a couple of nuclear bombson Japan. It’s been 70 years sincethey’ve served hot dogs at WrigleyField in October.

That’s more than 25,000 days! They’ve played more than 10,000games!

And if you want to talk about thelast time they WON the Fall Clas-sic, well, we’ve fought in twoWorld Wars, elected 17 presidents(plus had one who wasn’t elected),made 11 amendments to the U.S.Constitution, added five new states(New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arizona,Alaska and Hawaii), 14 new base-ball teams, and Haley’s Comet haspassed the Earth ... twice.

In fact, there may not even be aperson alive today who was bornprior to their last win in 1908.There have been times when itlooked like the Cubs might begearing up for a chance to win itall. Back in 1969, it looked likethey were going to run away withit before a black cat sauntered outonto the field in New York andcursed them.

Fifteen years later in 1984, they

actually made it to the playoffs, butlost to the San Diego Padres. The Cubbies took a 2-0 game leadin the best of five series before SanDiego tied the series with twohome wins.

Chicago’s Northsiders held a 3-0lead going into the sixth inning be-fore the Californians scored a cou-ple of runs. The wheels came offthe bus in the next inning when thePadres scored four times, partlydue to a ball that dribbled throughthe legs of Cubs’ first basemanLeon Durham.

The Cubs lost the game 6-3 aswell as the series, despite havingoutscored the Padres as a whole.

It would be five years until theCubs made it into the playoffsagain, this time against the Giantsof San Francisco. The Cubs lostthe series 4-1 and Mother Naturewas so shocked to see the Cubs inthe playoffs that San Francisco had

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Will Cubs’ sad postseason run continue?

JonGALLAGHER

It is 7:20 p.m., Sunday, March29, and I just returned from mydaily walk, al-beit 13 hourslater than nor-mal. I wasstruck by thethought that thisday epitomizedthe March that“comes in like alion and goesout like a lamb”better than any entire March I canremember.

My walk was delayed by ablustery, chilly morning that soondeteriorated into a morning filledby a cold, driving rain, and thisevening I passed the bank mar-quee announcing a balmy 53 de-grees.

Oscar Hammerstein – the word-smith of the Rodgers and Ham-merstein duo, which gave us suchwonderful musicals as “Okla-homa” and “The Sound of Music”– wrote of this season for theshow “Carousel.”

He penned, “March came in

like a lion ..., then April cried andstepped aside, and along came ...May, was full of promises,” andthen it was June, which was“busting out all over” with thepromised summer.

I hope my knee is right; it tellsme this may be just such a year,and I’ll gladly take the wet ofApril and the tease of May if theycan lead us to a glorious June.

Meanwhile, I’ll simply enjoyeach day for what it is.

Enjoying the ‘Carousel’ of an Illinois spring

To the Editor:After Congress came a hair’s

breadth from shutting down the De-partment of Homeland Security,members of the leadership tried toreassure the Ameri-can people. “We’recertainly not going toshut down the gov-ernment or default onthe national debt,”Majority LeaderMitch McConnelldeclared on CBS’s “Face the Na-tion.” Congress, he said, would notlurch from crisis to crisis.

I wish I could be so confident. Ifyou look at the year ahead, the con-gressional calendar is littered withopportunities to do just that. My bet

is not on smooth sailing.This is a problem. Great democ-

racies do not veer from one dooms-day moment to the next, nor dothey fund government on a week-

to-week basis. Yet thatis precisely the habitCongress has devel-oped. It’s embarrassing.

We need a Congressthat can address itsproblems before a crisiscomes up. What will it

take? Members need to work atlegislating every day – not just thethree days in the middle of theweek.

The so-called “Hastert Rule” –that the Speaker of the House willnot allow a vote on a bill unless he

has a majority of his own party be-hind it – needs to be jettisoned forgood.

And perhaps most important, thetactic of tying two unrelated issuestogether in order to force an oppo-nent’s hand needs to be rejected.

The parade of make-or-break is-sues that Congress faces this yearpresents myriad opportunities forlegislative mischief. If all we seebefore us is one government-shut-down threat after another, the re-maining faith Americans hold inour chief lawmaking body coulddisappear altogether. And de-servedly so.

– Lee HamiltonDirector, Center on Congress

at Indiana University

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PRINCEVILLE – The PeoriaCounty Sheriff’s Office said theywere called to the VFW Hall hereabout 10 p.m. on March 28 on areport of an armed patron at anestablishment displaying a signprohibiting customers from carry-ing concealed weapons on thepremises.

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YATES CITY – A resident inthe 100 block of North BursonStreet on March 29 reported a se-ries of late-night disturbances in-volving a few male juveniles saidto have been targeting the homein several recent incidents of ha-rassment, according to reports

Local and County police are in-vestigating.Police reports

• Angel Amick, 25, of

Williamsfield on March 22 wasarrested by Knox County policeon an outstanding warrant fromanother county and transported tothe Knox County Jail.

• Clay Chatten, 22, of Farming-ton on March 26 was arrested forpossession of marijuana and for atraffic violation and was thentransported to the Peoria CountyJail.

• David Vonk, 23, of Edwardson March 26 was arrested for bat-tery and transported to the PeoriaCounty Jail.

• Jerry Poole, 31, of Princevilleon March 28 was arrested forFailure To Appear and transportedto the Peoria County Jail.

• Elizabeth Stufflebeam, 22, ofElmwood on March 28 was de-tained on a traffic stop and citedfor driving with no proof of insur-ance.

• Dillon Dawson, 21, of Ed-wards on March 29 was arrestedfor Driving Under the Influenceand three traffic violations, and

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• March 25 – Judith Taylor ofFarmington on Illinois Route 116near County Highway 18 inFarmington Township.

• March 26 – Marc Koch ofBrimfield on U.S. Route 150 nearHeinz Lane in Radnor Township.

• March 28 – Laurel Plumer ofHanna City on Martin Road nearMcCluskey Road in BrimfieldTownship.

• March 29 – Michael Gen-ovese of Edwards on Taylor Roadnear Ashbury Court in KickapooTownship.

• March 29 – Richard Philipp ofBrimfield on Brimfield-JubileeRoad near Princeville-JubileeRoad in Jubilee Township.Marriage licenses

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• Rik Whitley and CassandraHill, both of Farmington

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a major earthquake prior to thestart of a World Series game.

Nine years would pass before theCubs were swept in three games bythe Braves in 1998.

There was some hope in 2003,when the Cubs got revenge overthe tomahawk-chopping, war-whooping Atlanta fans, taking theDivision Series 3-2.

Then came the most famous lossin all of Cub history.

The Cubs were playing theFlorida Marlins for the NationalLeague Championship. They wereleading the series 3-2 and held a 3-0 advantage going into the 8th in-ning in the sixth game. Theyrecorded the first out, leaving theCubs just five outs away fromgoing to the World Series.

With a runner on second, thenext batter lifted a high fly ball to-ward the stands in left field foulterritory. As Cubs outfielder Moi-ses Alou reached into the seats infoul territory, a fan reached out and

tried to catch the ball. Chaos en-sued.

The fan was clearly not reachinginto the field of play, but Alou mayhave had a play on the ball.

Instead, it was ruled a plain oldfoul ball, the fan was escorted fromthe stadium (and subsequently hadto go into hiding, his whereaboutsremaining a mystery to this day),and the game resumed.

Not only did the wheels fall offthis bus, the engine blew a rod, thetransmission scattered itself overmiles, and the rust protection quitworking.

The Marlins – with the help ofthe Cubs’ shortstop dropping aneasy grounder – scored eight timesto tie the series before winning itthe next night in front of a veryquiet Wrigley Field.

In 2007 the Cubs were swept bythe Diamondbacks and in 2008,my Dodgers dispatched them inthree games as well.

Since then, the Cubs have under-gone some drastic changes.

Theo Epstein, the general man-ager of the Boson Red Sox teamthat ended its long world champi-onship drought, was brought in tobuild a team. His first few yearswere uneventful on the field.

This year, he seems to have gonea little nutso.

He brought in a manager, JoeMaddon, who has World Series ex-perience. He signed free agentslike Jon Lester to join with a coreof talented prospects, and sud-denly, people are starting to takenotice of the upstart Cubs.

They even changed their radioflagship from WGN to WBBM,making the “Go Cubs Go” themesong obsolete (or at least the line“You can catch it all on WGN”).

I’m no great prognosticator, but Iam a huge baseball fan. If I had togo out on a limb, I’d pick the Cubsto win the National League CentralDivision crown this year.

Then I’ll pick whoever they playin the playoffs to break Cubs fans’hearts one more time.

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Hometown pharmacies fret over budgetBy BILL KNIGHTFor The Weekly Post

BRIMFIELD – Local pharma-cies for weeks have become in-creasingly concerned about cuts tohealth care for the poor proposedin Gov. Bruce Rauner’s budget,announced in February.

Rauner’s plans to cut Medicaid$1.4 billion could lower fees thatpharmacists charge for filling pre-scriptions, and that alone couldtotal $46 million statewide, ac-cording to Rob Karr of the IllinoisRetail Merchants Association(IRMA).

Pharmacies “already have takenhits,” said Curt Sherman of Sher-man’s Pharmacy here. “We had a10 percent cut and an 8 percentcut in the last three years. If itcontinues, we won’t be able toprovide the service.

“The chain [drug] stores don’tmind it as much,” he continued.“They just want people in thestore so they can buy liquor orwhatever. But these cuts on reim-bursements would be terrible –stupid low. Tell me how to stay inbusiness.”

About 20 percent of Sherman’scustomers are Medicaid patients,he said. Some 12 miles north, BobGestrine at Princeville Pharmacysays Medicaid customers amountto some 25 percent of his busi-ness.

“Sure, it’s going to hurt – it’snot going to help,” Gestrine said.“We’ve been cut before, and therejust aren’t many options.”

With the economy struggling torecover from the Great Recessionbeginning in 2007, the need forMedicaid has increased, accordingto the Illinois Department ofHealthcare and Family Services.

There are about 7,600 peopleenrolled in Medicaid in FultonCounty (a 14.7 percent increasesince 2006); 12,000 in KnoxCounty (up 17.3 percent since2006); and 45,000 in PeoriaCounty (up 28 percent since2006).

The availability of pharmacyservices to Medicaid patientscould drop dramatically if the leg-islature enacts Rauner’s budgetbecause if fees that drug stores get

keeping dropping, pharmacistswould almost have to work fornothing.

Plus, the drastic cuts would justmove the responsibility.

Danny Chun of the Illinois Hos-pital Association said cuttingMedicaid doesn't exactly cut thestate’s costs because those costsstill must be paid.

“It gets cost-shifted to peoplewith private insurance,” Chun toldthe Chicago Tribune. “Middle-class working families end uppaying higher premiums, co-paysand deductibles.”

Meanwhile, Illinois hospitalsalso would suffer in Rauner’sMedicaid cuts, half of whichwould be Medicaid cuts to hospi-tals – about 13 percent of hospi-tals’ Medicaid reimbursements.

Rauner has warned that cuttingspending will mean “shared sacri-fice” by Illinoisans, but IRMA’sKarr doesn’t see it.

“This is asking more than a fairshare of pharmacy providers,” hesaid. “It’s a huge deal.”

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FARMINGTON – Ashlan Ed-wards, daughter of Daniel and JulieEdwards and granddaughter ofLarry and Marilyn Walters, all ofFarmington, received the AmericanFFA (Future Farmers of America)Degree Nov. 1 at the FFA NationalConvention in Louisville, Ky.

This is the highest award that canbe earned in FFA. Ashlan is thefirst girl to receive this award atFarmington and only the seventhperson from the Farmington Chap-ter.

The National FFA Organizationis an organization that encouragesleadership and education in agricul-ture. The National FFA Conventionallows students the opportunities tocompete in events, leadershipworkshops and education sessions.

Active members of FFA are in-volved in several Supervised Agri-cultural Experience programs.Members must keep an accurateand detailed report of their SAEhours in order to be chosen for thedifferent degrees and awards of-fered in FFA.

There are four degree levels inthe FFA: Greenhand, Chapter,State, and American. The Americandegree is the hardest to achieve. Inorder to be considered for theAmerican degree, an FFA membermust have received her State de-gree, kept detailed and accuraterecords of her SAE hours, be a highschool graduate, been active for thelast three years, have at least a “C”average in high school, and earnedat least $1,500 and worked 2,250hours.Route 8 lane reduction atKickapoo Creek bridge

EDWARDS – Traffic will beslowed this summer and fall on Illi-nois Route 8 due to work by theIllinois Department of Transporta-tion on the bridge at KickapooCreek.

As a result of the bridge replace-ment construction, Route 8 will bereduced to one lane at that point

starting April 1. Construction is ex-pected to last until November.

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ELMWOOD – The public is in-vited to RSVP before Saturday(April 4) to attend a meeting of Illi-nois Citizens for Clean Air & Waterat Maple Lane County Club, whereseveral agriculture and environ-mental experts will discuss researchand legislation concerning Concen-trated Animal Feeding Operations(CAFOs) and related matters, ac-cording to group co-founder KarenHudson.

The 10 a.m.-3 p.m. meeting willfeature Dr. John Ikerd, ProfessorEmeritus of Agricultural & AppliedEconomics of the University ofMissouri; Dr. Kendall Thu, chair ofNorthern Illinois University’s An-thropology department; Dr. StacyJames, a water resources scientist atPrairie Rivers Network; and Hud-son, who’s also an associate withthe Socially Responsible Agricul-ture Project.

Refreshments and a lunch cateredfrom Chipotle will be provided.

To RSVP, contact Hudson [email protected] or (309)742-8895.Spoon River DAR honorsgood citizen winners

WILLIAMSFIELD – The SpoonRiver Chapter of Daughters of the

American Revolution recently hon-ored the 2015 winners of the DARGood Citizen Awards.

This year’s winners are HannahHuber of Elmwood, Ava Alford ofWilliamsfield and Harley Carlsonof ROWVA High School.Farm labor programhelps develop housing

CHAMPAIGN – The Rural De-velopment Farm Labor Housingprogram helps qualified non-profitapplicants develop housing foryear-round and migrant/seasonalhousing on terms which will allowrents that are affordable to low-in-come farmworkers and farm pro-cessing workers.

Pre-applications to construct off-farm units and related facilities, orto purchase and substantially reha-bilitate off-farm labor housingproperties are being acceptedthrough June 23.

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PEORIA – Help raise awarenessof child abuse by joining “HandsAround the Courthouse” on Friday,April 17, at noon in the PeoriaCounty Courthouse Plaza. April isChild Abuse Prevention Month andthe Youth Services Network Panelis hosting its Eighth Annual HandsAround the Courthouse event todraw attention to the 1,098 pendingchild abuse and neglect cases inPeoria County.

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‘High School Musical 2’ at FarmingtonBy MICHELLE SHERMAN

For The Weekly Post

FARMINGTON – Stu-dent thespians at Farm-ington Community HighSchool are “all in this to-gether” as they prepare topresent “High SchoolMusical 2” April 10-12.

Made famous by theDisney TV movie, themusical tells the contin-ued story of Troy,Gabriella and theirfriends as they participatein a talent show.

Director Ryan Lamberttakes great care in choos-ing the shows presentedannually, tailoring themto fit the talents and per-sonalities of his students.

“We could have just aseasily chosen ‘Okla-homa!’ or ‘Seven Bridesfor Seven Brothers’ –both great shows, but notthe personality of thesekids,” he said. “I tailor

my show choice to whothe kids are and whatwould benefit them themost.”

Auditions take placebefore winter break, withrehearsals beginning inearnest in January. Thecast practices everyevening, sometimes jug-gling multiple commit-ments to other activities.

“We have students in-volved in sports, afterschool work, tutoring andwhatnot, so I workaround those things,” Lambert said, adding thatcoaches and employersare very understandingshould the musical need astudent right after school.

Inclusiveness is notonly something that“High School Musical 2,”with its catchy tunes andteenaged characters, ad-vocates, but also some-thing the director strives

for in all his productions.“I want them to under-

stand that, no matter whatthey do, where they go,the theater is there forthem. It is a place youdon’t have to be afraid tobe yourself and you cando so without judgment,”he said. “We are a smallfamily within the schooland you can see thatwhen you come see therehearsals.”

Senior Colton Evans,18, who plays the leadrole of Troy Bolton, saysthat his time in theaterhas been among the mostchallenging things he’sdone in his high schoolcareer.

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“They’re just so easyto work with,” said Cyn-thia Brewer, who over-sees hunter safety for theIllinois Department ofNatural Resources. “Andthey have this fish fry.”

As she said that, Kelchtold the students and par-ents assembled lastweekend that food wasready.

In no time, pounds offish filets, baked beansand cole slaw were gob-bled up.

“I never have any trou-ble filling this class,”said head instructor PhilBlackburn, who is in his25th year of instructionin Peoria County. “Ihope it’s the quality ofthe class, but I have afeeling it’s the fish.”

Illinois mandatedsafety classes for huntersin 1996 and Kelch hasseen generations passthrough the club.

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Kelch singled outCraig Tiezzi of Kick-apoo as one who hasbeen with him since thestart.

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FUNDING: Schools tapping reservestop rank, FinancialRecognition, and morehave dropped to the nexttier, Financial Review.

From bottom to top,ISBE financial scoresare 1.00-2.61 (FinancialWatch); 2.62-3.07 (EarlyWarning), 3.08-3.53 (Fi-nancial Review), and3.54-4.00 (FinancialRecognition).

“Our Financial Profiledata shows that while

our schools continue tocut costs and stretchshrinking financial re-sources, many still mustborrow or dip into theirreserves in order to stayin the black,” said StateSuperintendent of Edu-cation Christopher A.Koch. “There also ap-pears to be a direct cor-relation between thedecrease in state fundingand the declining num-ber of districts in Finan-cial Recognition.

“Our Board will con-tinue to advocate formore state educationfunding.”

The ISBE, now led byGov. Bruce Rauner ap-pointee James Meeks, aformer State Senator, isasking for an additional$729.9 million to fullyfund General State Aid,which has been proratedfor the last four years.

Adjusted for inflation,the proposed Fiscal Year2016 budget amount isstill 5.2 percent less thanthe FY 2009 generalfund appropriation level,ISBE says.

State-funding reduc-tions since 2009 includea 3.6 percent drop inGeneral State Aid($165.5 millionstatewide), a 39.4 per-cent drop in transporta-tion ($133.7 million), a45.6 percent drop in freelunches ($12 million), a46.8 percent drop inagriculture education($1.6 million), and a 40percent drop in tech sup-port ($1.7 million).

ISBE’s adjusted Finan-cial Profiles for area dis-tricts show that all butPrinceville CUSD 326still score a Recognition,with Princeville oncemore under Review.

(See box on Page 1.)“This latest reduction

stands to cost us an addi-tional $167,000,” saidSuperintendent John As-plund of FarmingtonCentral CUSD 265. “Butwe have also been in-

formed that we will notreceive half of our Man-dated Categorical fund-ing for the year as well(transportation, specialeducation). That standsto cost us an additional$419,000.”

The March 24 stopgapmeasure will cost Elm-wood District 322 about$150,000, says ElmwoodSuperintendent ChadWagner.

“With the passage ofthe FY15 budget fix leg-islation, we are lookingat a deficit-spending sce-nario of around$550,000,” he says.

Ahead, the proposedFY 2016 budget, whichtries to fund governmentwith a 35 percent declinein revenue due to the ex-piration of the state in-come tax hike, aims for araise in General StateAid from 89 percent to94 percent, but it hasmany questions marks –such as a $21 million cutin other education pro-grams.

That makes it difficultto plan, Wagner says.

“The unknown factorswill include future cutsto MCAT [MandatedCategorical reimburse-ments, such as specialeducation, free lunch andtransportation], reduc-tions in other essentialprograms, and the pen-sion cost-shift issue –where districts will takeon the state's responsibil-ity of paying for pensioncosts, about 8 percent ofoverall certified payroll,or almost $200,000 forElmwood,” Wagner says.“I think we will be luckyto see a break-even sce-nario.”

Williamsfield District210, which depends farless on state funding (seebox), is nevertheless still“conservatively prepar-ing for any and all sce-narios,” saysWilliamsfield Superin-tendent Tim Farquer.

“We try to end each

fiscal year with at least360 days cash on handso we can absorb bumpsin the road like the onewe are all heading to-ward,” he says. “We doso while working tomaintain one of the (ifnot the) lowest tax ratesin the area.”

“Cash on hand” is aprojected estimate of thenumber of days a districtcould meet operating ex-penditures provided noadditional revenues werereceived.

Additional revenuemeans different things tothe state and to schools.

“It is difficult to sayhow the FY16 budgetwill affect us, as the gov-ernment clearly doesn’tfollow the budget any-way,” Asplund adds.

“We were told to counton a certain amount ofmoney this year (whichwas already greatly re-duced from previousyears), and now we arebeing told very late inthe process that we willnot even be receiving theamount they promisedus.”

Schools’ managementand labor are on thesame side concerning in-adequate funding.

Illinois Federation ofTeachers leader EllieSullivan said, “We arecalling on our electedstate officials to stop cut-ting public education,our state universities,and student financial as-sistance.

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(hereinafter the “Property”). Only the Improvements will be sold. TheDistrict will retain ownership of the Property other than the Improve-ments.

The Improvements shall be sold under the terms and conditions setforth in a form “Offer to Purchase” available at the office of the Super-intendent of the District located at 301 W. Butternut Street, Elmwood,IL 61529 (the “District Office”). The Board will receive offers to pur-chase the Improvements until 11:00 a.m. on the 23rd day of April,2015, at the District Office. Information concerning the Improvementsis available at the District Office.

1. The minimum acceptable offer for purchase of the Improvements is$5,000.00.

2. The person or persons submitting an Offer to Purchase which is ac-cepted by the Board (the “Buyer”) shall at the Buyer’s sole cost andexpense remove the Improvements from the Property no later thanJune 1, 2015.

3. The Buyer shall at the Buyer’s sole cost and expense disconnect anyand all utilities serving the Improvements including, without limitation,electrical lines, natural gas lines, water lines and sanitary sewer mainsin accordance with any and all regulations applicable to such discon-nections.

4. The Improvements will be sold in “as is” condition.

5. A minimum down payment of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) inthe form of a cashier’s check made payable to the Board of Educationof Elmwood Community Unit School District No. 322 must accompanyeach Offer to Purchase.

6. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by cashier’s checkpayable to the Board of Education of Elmwood Community Unit SchoolDistrict No. 322 at closing, or by such other form of payment as maybe acceptable to the Board.

7. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all offers submittedand to waive any and all informalities or irregularities in any offer sub-mitted.

8. Persons interested in submitting an Offer to Purchase the Improve-ments may arrange for an inspection of the Property and the Improve-ments at reasonable times prior to the deadline for submission of anOffer to Purchase by contacting Superintendent Chad Wagner at theDistrict Office, Phone (309) 782-8464.

Envelopes containing an Offer to Purchase with a certified check in theamount of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) shall be clearly marked,“Offer to Purchase School Property at 308 North Morgan Street.” Of-fers must be received in the District Office on or before 11:00 a.m. onthe 23rd day of April, 2015.

Board of Education of Elmwood Community Unit School District No. 322

BILL FRIETSCH, Secretary

Three write-ins vying for Princeville boardFrom Weekly Post Staff Reports

There is another contested areaelection, after all.

Three late write-in candidateshave rounded out a now-competi-tive field for the PrincevilleC.U.S.D. 326 Board of Education.

Those three candidates are KristiDaugherty, Ben Herrmann and RobHilsabeck.

They will be vying for the fourseats open in the April 7 election,but face the disadvantage of notbeing on the ballot. The candidates

who are on the ballot are DarinCowser, Susan Hefler and DarwinStahl.

Here is the most recent list fromKnox and Peoria County Clerks ofpeople who filed declarations oftheir intent to be write-in candi-dates for positions in the newspa-per’s circulation area:

• Brimfield – Paul Dye for theVillage Board

• Elmwood – Adam Lee Rue forWard 2 of the City Council

For Library Trustees for the Elm-

wood Township Library District –Stephanie Colgan, Kimberly S. De-Splinter, Monica Lampe and TomHerman

• Princeville - Mary Ann Mercerfor Village Clerk

• Yates City – Doug Passmore forSalem Library Trustee

Saturday (April 4) is the last dayfor grace-period registration andgrace-period voting, and the lastday for early voting at the office ofthe election authority or at a loca-tion designated by the authority.

Area County Clerkshave verified the loca-tions of polling places inThe Weekly Post area forthe April 7 consolidatedelection:

FULTON COUNTYFarmington

• Farmington 1 – 5St. Matthews CatholicChurch, 156 E. Vernon,Farmington

• Farmington 2 – 4, 6Baptist Church, 135 N.West, Farmington

• Farmington 3 –Norris United MethodistChurch, 241 N. Main,Norris

KNOX COUNTYYates City

• ElbaTownship Hall,Elba Township

• Salem CommunityCenter in Yates City

Williamsfield• Persifer Township

Hall, U.S. Route 150 andDahinda Road

Truro• Williamsfield Fire

Station, WilliamsfieldPEORIA COUNTY

Brimfield• Brimfield 1 – W. F.

Harding Memorial Bldg.,106 E. Knoxville St.,Brimfield

Elmwood• Elmwood 1, 2, 3 –

United MethodistChurch, 821 W Main,Elmwood

Jubilee Township• Jubilee 1, 2 – Jubilee

Township Hall, 12807 NPrinceville-Jubilee Rd.,Brimfield

Kickapoo Township• Kickapoo 1, 2 –

Kickapoo TownshipHall, 10025 W. Route150, Kickapoo

• Kickapoo 3 – Re-deemer PresbyterianChurch, 2025 N. Kick-apoo Creek Rd., Peoria

• Peoria 68 – El VistaBaptist Church, 6301 N.Syler St., Peoria

• Peoria 69, 70– Charter Oak School,5221 Timberedge Dr.,Peoria

• Peoria 71 – LibertyVillage, 6906 N. Stall-worth Dr., Peoria

• Peoria 74 – GracePresbyterian Church,8607 Ill. Route 91, Peo-ria

• Peoria 75 – GolfLearning Center, 7815 N.Radnor Rd., Peoria

Millbrook Township• Millbrook 1 –

Millbrook TownshipCenter, 20923 W. CedarSt., Laura

Radnor Township• Radnor 1, 2, 3 –

Dunlap Prospect UnitedMethodist Church, 300E. Ash St., Dunlap

• Peoria 73 – GracePresbyterian Church,8607 Ill. Route 91, Peo-ria

• Peoria 93, 95 – NorthBranch Library, 3001 W.Grand Parkway, Peoria

Rosefield Township• Rosefield 1, 2 –

Rosefield TownshipBuilding, 16221 W.Southport Rd., Brimfield

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Farmington picks Constellation EnergyBy MICHELLE SHERMAN

For The Weekly Post

FARMINGTON – Farmingtonresidents wishing to take part in theelectrical aggregation programsoon will have their energy sup-plied by Constellation Energy.

The Farmington City Council onMarch 16 authorized SIMEC En-ergy to seek proposals from carri-ers. A request for proposal was sentout March 20.

Farmington voters in November2014 approved a ballot measurewhich gave residential and smallbusiness customers the opportunity

to break away from Ameren Illinoisfor electricity.

The measure previously was de-feated by a dead tie in March ofthat year.

Farmington joins a collective ofmore than 600 municipalities com-prising some 3 million individualcustomers seeking to receive lowerenergy prices.

Ameren still will provide electri-cal distribution to the city, and alsowill respond in the event of outagesor repairs.

Individual customers can choose

to opt out of the collective.Constellation’s proposed price is

set to save customers 15 percent ontheir energy bills, said Mayor KennStufflebeam.

Should the market price on elec-tricity drop, Stufflebeam says, resi-dents still will receive the best priceon their electricity.

“If the default rate drops belowthe rate at which” SIMEC boughtit, he said, “the citizenry would getthe lower of the two” prices.

The new supplier is set to take ef-fect in May.

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Beverly DozardFARMINGTON – Barbara J.

Dozard, 42, of Farmington diedon March 21 in Peoria County.

Survivors include two children,Rhiannon Perry and Cole Ballard,both of Farmington and severalnieces and nephews.

Cremation has been accorded. Agraveside service was March 24 atOak Ridge Cemetery in Farming-ton.

Condolences may be left atwww.sedgwickfuneralhomes.com.

Robert Greer PEORIA – Robert R. “Shorty”

Greer, 84, of Peoria, stepfather ofa Princeville man, died March 23at OSF Saint Francis MedicalCenter in Peoria.

Survivors include his wife, Lola(Lingenfelter) Greer; his stepsonLeonard D. (Kilo) Lance ofPrinceville; two step-granddaugh-ters Austin Miller and TrinityLance; two step-great-grandchil-dren; and a niece.

Funeral services were March 27at First English Lutheran Church,with burial and military honorsfollowing at Springdale Cemeteryin Peoria.

Condolences may be left atwww.thewiltonmortuary.com.

Ida A. LakePRINCEVILLE – Ida Arline

Lake, 95, of Peoria, mother of aPrinceville man, died March 24 ather home.

Survivors include her son, Dean(Terry) Lake of Princeville; fivegrandchildren; 14 great-grandchil-dren; two great-great-grandchil-dren; and one sister.

Cremation rites have been ac-corded. Private family serviceswill be held at a later date.

Condolences may be left atwww.wrightandsalmon.com.

Beverly JohnsonPRINCEVILLE – Beverly Max-

ine Johnson, 89, of Normal, diedon March 22.

Survivors include daughterGayle (and Mark) Brackett ofPrinceville, eight grandchildrenand one great-grandson.

The funeral was March 25 atEast Lawn Funeral Home inBloomington.

Condolences may be left at

www.dignitymemorial.com.Loretta McClain

PRINCEVILLE – Loretta Mc-Clain, 89, of Princeville, formerlyof Washington, D.C., died onMarch 20 at Grand ViewAlzheimer's Special Care Centerin Peoria.

Loretta is survived by her lov-ing family, Yolanda (and Glenn)Branche of Washington, D.C.;Lamar (and Kimberly) McClainof New Carrolton, Md.; Jocelyn(and Dexter) Hazlewood ofPrinceville; and six grandchildren.

Funeral services were March 30at the 19th Street Baptist Churchin Washington, D.C. She will belaid to rest at Camp Butler Na-tional Cemetery in Springfield,with her beloved husband, JohnWalter McClain, who died in2014.

Simons Mortuary has been en-trusted with arrangements in Illi-nois and McGuire FuneralServices, Inc., is handling servicesin Washington, D.C.

Condolences may be left atlegacy.com.

Mark RossBRIMFIELD – Mark Ross, 61,

formerly of Peoria and stepfatherof a Brimfield man, died onMarch 22 at home on Lake Ke-owee in South Carolina.

Survivors include his wife,Maribeth (Schachtrup) Ross; step-sons Jeffrey Rule of Brimfield andGregory Rule of Washougal,Wash.; along with two grandchil-dren.

A celebration of life was March30 at St. Thomas Catholic Churchin Peoria Heights, with burial inSt. Mary’s Cemetery, West Peoria.

Condolences may be left atwww.wrightandsalmon.com.

Betty SeidelELMWOOD – Betty J. Seidel,

age 83, of Peoria, mother of anElmwood man, died March 25 ather home.

Survivors include son Dennis(Tracie) Seidel of Elmwood; 13grandchildren; 25 great-grandchil-dren; 5 great-great-grandchildren;and 4 brothers.

Funeral services were March 31at the Davison-Fulton WoodlandChapel in Peoria, with burial inParkview Cemetery.

Condolences may be left atwww.Davison-Fulton.com.

Paul WayFARMINGTON – Paul A. Way

Jr., 77, of Abingdon, father of aFarmington man, died March 23at OSF Richard L. Owens Hos-pice Home in Peoria.

Survivors include his wife,Sharon (Suydam) Way, son Todd(Irene) Way of Farmington; ninegrandchildren; 12 great-grandchil-dren; one brother; and severalnieces and nephews and their fam-ilies.

His celebration of life servicewas March 27 at Abingdon Chris-tian Church, with burial in theAbingdon Cemetery.

Condolences may be left atwww.h-p-w.com.

Reva WilliamsPRINCEVILLE – Reva J.

Williams, 89, of Princeville diedon March 22 at Cornerstone Reha-bilitation & Health Care Center inPeoria Heights.

Surviving are one son, Ron(Diana) Williams of Princeville;one daughter, Chris Williams ofNormal; three grandchildren,Ryan (Sue) Williams ofPrinceville, Niki Williams ofNapa, Calif., and Bret (Rachel)Williams of Henry; and two great-grandsons, Chase and JakeWilliams; and many nieces andnephews.

Funeral services were March 27at Haskell-Hott Funeral Homes inPrinceville with burial inPrinceville Cemetery.

Condolences may be left atwww.haskellhott.com.

OBITUARIES

This Week’s Obituaries• Beverly Dozard, 42, Farming-ton• Robert Greer, 84, Peoria• Ida Lake, 95, Princeville• Beverly Maxine Johnson, 89,Princeville• Loretta McClain, 89,Princeville• Mark Ross, 61, Brimfield• Betty Seidel, 83, Elmwood• Paul Way, 77, Farmington• Reva Williams, 89, Princeville• Patricia Yager, 75, Princeville

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

Sun. Divine Service: 10 amSun. School: 8:45 amBible Class: 8:45 am

Brimfield UnitedMethodist Church

Pastor Leonard Thomas135 S. Galena St., Brimfield

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

Thurs. Bible Study: 7 pm

Union Church at BrimfieldUnited Church of ChristPastor Stephen Barch

105 W. Clay Street, Brimfield(309) 446-3811

Sunday Worship: 9 amTuesday Bible Fun Night: 6 pm

EDWARDSBethany Baptist Church

7422 N. Heinz Ln., Edwards(309) 692-1755

www.bethanycentral.orgSat. Evening Worship: 6 pmSun. Worship 8:15 & 11 amWednesday Awana: 6:15 pm

Christ Alive! Community ChurchPastor Lance Zaerr

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

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Crossroads Assembly of GodPastor Tim Cavallo

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

www.crossroadselmwood.orgWed. Worship: 7 pm

Sun. Worship: 10:30 amElmwood Baptist ChurchPastor Dennis Fitzgerald

701 W. Dearborn St., Elmwood(309) 742-7631, 742-7911

Sun. School: 9:30 amSun Worship: 10:30 am, 6 pmWed. Prayer Meeting: 7 pmFirst Presbyterian Church

of ElmwoodReverend Marla B. Bauler

201 W. Evergreen, Elmwood(309) 742-2631

firstpresbyterianofelmwood.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 p.m.Sat. Mass: 4:30 p.m.Sun. Mass: 10 am

Tues. Rosary: 8:15 amUnited Methodist Church

of ElmwoodPastor Bradley F. Watkins II821 W. Main St., Elmwood

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

FARMINGTONFirst Presbyterian Church

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Sunday School: 9:30 amFellowship: 10:30 amWorship: 11:00 am

New Hope FellowshipAssembly of GodPastor Tom Wright

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FARMINGTON: ‘Frequent change necessary’to offer the best education possibleto our students,” Guidi said.

Retired teacher Faralli said shewants to “give back to the childrenof the district” and to be a voice forthe teachers and staff members whomay not be comfortable bringingtheir concerns to the board.

When she was a teacher, she said,her co-workers were apprehensiveto bring up issues with board mem-bers.

“They were afraid to say some-thing for fear of the backlash,” shesaid.

To help combat that, Faralli saidshe would like to see a focus groupcomprised of teachers, staff mem-bers and board members wheregrievances could be aired and,hopefully, rectified.

Zessin, who currently serves asthe high school wrestling coach andpreviously has served in otherelected positions, believes that,even though the district is headingin a positive direction, frequentchange is necessary.

“It’s other people’s turn to takethe place” on the board, he said, “toget their different ideas” heard.

Weighing heavily on the mindsof audience members were prob-lems with the school bus companyand mandatory testing.

On both accounts, the candidatessaid their hands are tied. As far asbuses, the district is not only boundby the contract it signs with aprovider, but also by the law whensoliciting bids.

Testing is mandated by the fed-eral government and individual dis-tricts cannot opt out.

The five candidates are runningfor four seats on Tuesday’s (April7) ballot.


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Question: Is there a cost in-volved to get a revoked or sus-pended driver’s licensereinstated?

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OBITUARIESPatricia Yager

PRINCEVILLE - Patricia AnnHountz Yager, 75, of Peoria, for-merly of Princeville, died onMarch 25 at UnityPoint Health-Proctor in Peoria.

Surviving are her children,Denise L. Yager, Kenneth F. Yager

II and James L. Yager; grandsons,John and Joseph Yager; sister,Doris (Bill) Hegwood; brothers,Ernie (Nancy) Hountz and Jim(Ellen) Hountz; and several niecesand nephews.

Cremation has been accordedand a graveside service will be at

11 a.m. Saturday, June 20 at St.Mary of the Woods Cemetery inPrinceville.

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Subtlety of most farmers translates nicelyBy WILLIAM C. BAILEY

For The Weekly Post

One of the more rewarding as-pects of attending a university isthe opportunity to meet peoplefrom other countries. This schoolyear, a number of Brazilian stu-dents are attending classes at West-ern Illinois, with 16 of themfocusing on agriculture.

I am fortunate to have some ofthese students in one of the classesI teach – U.S. Agricultural Trade.One recent topic focused on thechallenges of interacting withsomeone for whom English is nottheir native language.

In an effort to make Western’sagricultural students aware of thechallenges to do business overseasand in a foreign language, I dividedmy class into five sections – witheach section having a blend of na-tive English speakers and nativePortuguese speakers.

Each section was given a sen-tence, in English, which they trans-lated into Portuguese, and passedthe translation to the next group tobe translated from Portuguese backinto English. We then compared theoriginal material with the twice-

translated product. The exercisewas huge fun and, I believe, quiteuseful.

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By PHIL JOHNSONFor The Weekly Post

PRINCEVILLE – A blazing start hasthe Princeville baseball team at 5-0.

Coach Chris Delbridges’ team is com-ing off a 10-0 stomping of Knoxville anda 3-0 blanking of ROWVA-Williams-field last week.

Against Knoxville Cole Hartley wasstingy by giving up only three hits. ZachSimmons helped by slugging a homer.

In the Williamsfield win, Austin Bro-dine drove in all three runs and acepitcher Mitchell Janssen froze the oppo-nents with 18 strikeouts.

Brimfield-ElmwoodBrimfield-Elmwood (5-6) played big

boys of the area this past week withmixed results. A seven-run third inningby Putnam County last Wednesday wastoo much to overcome in an 8-4 loss.

Control pitcher Austin Sims justcouldn’t change locations nor speedsenough to stop the visitors. Jake Robertsdid have a big offensive day in the losingeffort with three hits and three RBIs.

A day later the team re-grouped in a14-4 win over Stark County. MichaelHoulihan pitched a complete game andCarson Cuevas had three hits, includinga homer and three RBI.

At a very cold Limestone round-robinFriday, Brimfield got strong pitchingfrom Cuevas and Sims, but the offensemanaged only two hits in a 4-0 loss. Sat-urday at still-cold Limestone, the offenseimproved, but too many walks to Molineby normally commanding Brad Demminhurt.

Brimfield lost Tuesday to Canton, 16-4after a 6-5 Monday win over Kewanee.

“We have a lot to work on yet, but it’s

definitely early, and our players are verywilling,” coach Brandon Porter said.

FarmingtonThe Farmers (2-3) topped Annawan-

Wethersfield (12-7) and Havana (6-4)this past week. Pitchers Caleb Gilstrapand Jordan McCance kept things closeagainst A-W into the sixth when Farmerbats found their pop for seven runs.

Coach Josh Putrich made good use ofhis pitching staff by bringing in DylanHayden to finish off the win.

In the Havana victory a combinationof pitchers Jake Johnson, Jake Settles,and Hayden gave the team a chance forlate-inning Farmington bats to overcomea deficit for a 6-4 win.

“Our hitting is starting to comearound, and a number of pitchers arestepping up for us. We’re starting to playgood baseball,” Putrich said.

ROWVA-WilliamsfieldThe new co-op Cougars topped im-

proving Peoria Heights, 5-2, as EthenHunt knocked in three runs and WyattBrodie and Garrett Wight combined topitch the team to the victory.

In a 3-0 loss to Princeville, Zach Smithkept the team close allowing only threeruns and six hits.

A doubleheader sweep of West Central(6-5 and 4-3) got the team to 4-1 on theseason on Saturday. In game one Wightand Brodie again worked the pitchingduties. In the nightcap Easton Beardpitched efficiently through five, andCharlie Gibbons worked out of jams inthe final two innings for the sweep.

“Charlie gave us a scare in each of thelast two innings, but persevered in eachof those two for the win,” said coachJohn Clark.

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TRACK: Qualifiers back

CANTON – Carson Cuevas andNate Wallace combined for 31points Saturday in the 10th annualKiwanis Club of Canton Girls andBoys All-Star games at Alice In-gersoll Gym.

The Brimfield duo played forthe North team, which dropped a97-84 decision. Tyler Jones ofWilliamsfield had 11 points forthe North while Matt Williamsonof Farmington scored five andJack McKinty of Elmwood addedfour.

Hannah Jostes of Farmingtonhad 13 points for the South in thegirls game and teammates PaigePasley added six points and Ken-zie Skaggs scored one.

The North team won, 67-66,and got three points from AbbyFrietsch of Elmwood and onefrom Ashley Perryman of Elm-

wood. Brimfield’s Ryleigh Keithalso played.300 Game: Jim Dura of Edwards

rolled a 300 game Sunday after-noon in the Knights of ColumbusBowling Association tournamentat Landmark Lanes in Peoria.

The tournament is being heldover three weekends and attractsbowlers from around the UnitedStates.Junior High: The junior high

track season is gearing up acrossthe area, with practices underwayand meets starting soon.

Boys and girls Class A section-als are May 9 with the state meetMay 15-16.

Boys and girls Class AA sec-tionals are May 16 and their statemeet is May 22-23.Shrine Game: For the first time

in a few years, there are no area

players competing in the annualIllinois High School Shrine Gameon June 20 at Illinois WesleyanUniversity.

Quarterback Zach Glisan ofAbingdon-Avon will play in thegame hosted by the IllinoisCoaches Association and theShriners of Illinois at 1:00 p.m. Learn more about the game atwww.ilshrinegame.com.Hoops Honors: Brimfield junior

guard Kennedy Dura made theJournal-Star’s five-player small-school all-area basketball teamafter averaging 17.2 points, 7.6assists and 4.4 rebounds.

Hannah Jostes of Farmingtonwas a second-teamer and RyleighKeith of Brimfield earned third-team honors.Email information to jeff@wkly-

post.com.

ALL SPORTS ROUNDUP

Area hoops players score in all-star game

Taylor Armbruster, ElmwoodVery active Elmwood High School senior Tay-

lor Armbruster advises up-and-coming young ladystudent athletes, “Believe in yourself.” She hasbeen doing that, and there can be no doubt shewill continue. The accomplishments speak forthemselves.

The four-year Lady Trojan cross country harrierhas been an EHS Scholastic Bowl team leader, aspeech team drama duet performer, a drama clubactor, plays the clarinet in the band, is a Key Clubvolunteer and a NationalHonor Society and ElmwoodExcellence honoree. It wouldseem there could be nothingmore for Taylor to participatein the high school experience.Along with that, she doesn’texactly let up in her sparetime. She plays the piano andstudies various languages ofthe world in her spare time.

Taylor reached a hard-fought personal goal as arunner this year, running 19 minutes, 56 secondsat the Elmwood Sectional. She feels this goal washelped by a strong finish, her favorite part of arace. As mentioned, she has been significant in therecent success of the EHS “Scho Bowl” team,which made an Elite Eight appearance in 2014and won a regional championship this spring.

As far as favorites go for Taylor, she admiresone of the greatest Americans in history, AbrahamLincoln. She chooses “Indiana Jones and the LastCrusade” as her top movie and “Psych” as her fa-vorite TV show. Taylor also “chills” to her besttunes, which are of the pop and foreign variety.

This fall she’s headed either for Cornell Collegein Mt. Vernon, Iowa or DePaul University in the“Windy City” to learn about Latin American stud-ies. It sounds like a challenge, but Taylor Arm-bruster can do it. It’s important that she believesin herself!

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“The great competitionoverall in the Peoria areacan only help to make usbetter,” Hardesty added.

GIRLSFarmington

The Lady Farmers re-turn state performersAllyx Camp, CalliFletcher, vaulter AmberCampen and throwerHannah Jostes (who wassecond Tuesday in thediscus at Farmington).

“Maggie Cecil shouldlead our distance run-ners. Seniors BrittneyHammond and CortneyWorkman are at the topof a hard working sprintgroup, and a key new-comer to our team willbe senior sprinter andjumper Kenzie Skaggs,”coach Toby Vallas said.

Farmington will also

add versatile freshmanrunners Haley Huls, Jor-dan Peckham and PaytonPeckham.

Elmwood-BrimfieldYouth abounds for the

girls team in the wake ofseveral seniors optingnot to go out, coachBrett Morse said.

“We’re in a buildingyear, we’re kind of try-ing to find our way at themoment,” he said.

Morse said severalathletes were near statequalifying standards lastspring. That list includesIzzy Ott in the triplejump, Jenna Musgrave inthe shot put and ShaylaMcCormick and AllieMeyers in the high jump.

“Hopefully we can getthem a couple moreinches and get them tostate,” Morse said.



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SOFTBALL: 15 Ks on Saturdayseven innings, but also yielded sixwalks.

Morgan Ledbetter also drove in tworuns for Brimfield with a double andKendra Gorham singled and scored arun. Abby Frietsch walked for Brim-field and scored the Lady Indians’ otherrun.

Florey was also dominant Saturdaywhen The Lady Indians traveled toPekin for a doubleheader versus theLady Dragons. Game one was a Floreypitching gem that featured 15 strikeoutsand just one walk.

Ledbetter, Gorham, Allison Pillman,and Hannah Baysingar led the offensiveattack in the 11-0 victory. Pillman hadthree hits and Baysingar contributedtwo while Gorham drove in three runswith a double.

Ledbetter took one out of the yard atPekin, slammed two doubles and hadfour RBIs.

In the nightcap errors derailed hopesof a sweep and were a factor in a 14-8setback. Kendra Gorham and Ledbetterpitched, while Ryleigh Keith went deepand Kennedy Dura had two hits forBrimfield.

“It was a good starting point for us toknow what we need to work on movingforward,” Juerjens said.

On Tuesday Florey fanned 21 in a 17-1 win over Midwest Central.

FarmingtonThe Lady Farmers opened their sea-

son by thrashing Annawan-Wethersfield16-2 as pitcher Alli Sprague recordedsix strikeouts with just one free pass.

The big blow on offense for theyoung Farmington team was a three-runshot off the bat of Maddie Murphy.

PrincevilleThe loss to Brimfield last Monday

continued a challenging and busyschedule in the early going.

Prior to making the trip to Brimfield,the ladies of Princeville also came upshort to larger schools Seneca (6-1) andOttawa Marquette Academy (10-9)while winning over Rock Island (8-6).

Princeville had 11 hits against RockIsland including two by Natalie Cokeland Jessica Devries. Maddie Hite ledthe team with two RBIs.

Then, after a defeat at the hands ofAbingdon-Avon (8-4), the Lady Princesbegan conference play with a resound-ing 10-0 victory over ROWVA-Williamsfield.

Kraft had a five-inning no-hitter inthat game, striking out 10 and allowingno walks while tossing 45 strikes out of62 pitches.

Gardner and Cokel each had two hitsin the win and Gardner drove in tworuns with her two doubles.

“We’re (3-4) so far, but we’ll benefitin the long run by taking on strongcompetition,” coach Chad Gardner said.

Tuesday was a good example of that,as Princeville routed Kewanee, 20-1.

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Back on trackDistance, throwingstrong for E-B boys

Brimfield,Florey topPrincevilleBy PHIL JOHNSON

For The Weekly Post

With a trophy case full of cross coun-try hardware, it should come as no sur-prise that distance events are typically astrong suit for the Elmwood-Brimfieldboys track team.

This season is no different for coachGregg Meyers, whose team will againbe strong in diatance events, led byNate Herridge, Kelly Hoffmann, DerekMcCoy and Matt Osmulski.

E-B opened its outdoor season Tues-day at Farmington, along with the hostteam, Monmouth-Roseville andKnoxville.

While meet results were not final atpress time, that quadrangular was thefirst glance at what Meyers figures willbe a solid track season.

“Our middle distance begins as aquestion mark.We’re hoping for KelbyBarnewolt, Matthew Gerontes andDakota Swadinsky to step up in thoseevents,” Meyers said.

Hayden Golemon and Sam Marincicreturn for hurdles competition and willbe looked on for team points. ThrowersJackson Harkness and Brad Novak givethe team considerable strength in shotand discus competition, while Swadin-

sky (who is out for a few days with aninjury) and Devin Jones are strongjumpers.

“Harkness and Novak are very hardworkers, and Dakota could be one ofthe best triple jumpers in the area,”Meyers said.

FarmingtonCoach Jim Hardesty’s Farmington

boys track team has youth in 11 fresh-men but also five returnees with stateexperience. Colton Evans leads thethrowing department while Josh Lozierreturns in pole vault.

Evans topped 42 feet in Tuesday’s

meet to finish behind E-B’s dynamicduo of Harkness (45-8) and Novak.

“We feel we are deep in sprints withsenior Max Balagna having the mostexperience. The team is very excitedabout the season; have been workingvery hard; and are very dedicated toimproving,” Hardesty said.

“We think the Prairieland Conferenceis an excellent Class 1A track confer-ence and look forward to the challengespresented, with Elmwood-Brimfieldand Rushville-Industry being thestrongest of our competition.

Farmington’s Colton Evans is one of several talented shotputters in the area. Photoby Jeff Lampe.

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By PHIL JOHNSONFor The Weekly Post

Three games into the season, Brim-field’s Morgan Florey already looksto be in mid-season form.

A senior pitcher, Florey (3-0)tossed a no-hitterMonday, struck out18 Princeville bat-ters and slammed atwo-run home run inthe first inning to liftBrimfield (3-1) pastthe Lady Princes (2-4).

The only blot onFlorey’s otherwiseperfect seven-inning performancewere two walks. Overall, 61 of her 97pitches were strikes.

“She was unhittable,” Brimfieldcoach Kurt Juerjens said. “The onlyball put in play was a bunt.”

Florey’s dominance overshadoweda solid complete game on the moundby senior Jordan Kraft, who allowedjust three hits and struck out eight in

FloreyNo-hitter

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