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ABC Day Care
Center closing
ABC Day Care Center
will be closing its doors on
Wednesday.
The center has been
serving the community
for over 35 years.
The ABC families will
need uninterrupted childcare and local providers
are encouraged to call
the center with available
openings in January 2015.
The sale of all equipment, toys and furniture
started Jan. 5.
Call 274-2766 for more
information.
‘Change in the
culture’ at IVC
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January
February
• Mossville School updates were finished
at the first of the year. The updates included
a secure front door with a new office for visitors to check in at, a new library and a new
outside awning. The school was the last in
Illinois Valley Central District 321 to receive
a facelift and a secured entryway.
• The red kettle drive set new records this
year, topping the $20,000 mark for the first
time. Overall, $21,200 was raised for the
Salvation Army.
• Chillicothe’s
second K-9 unit,
Gosh, was put
down after a few
months of deteriorating health.
The 8-year-old
German Shepherd had been in
service for about
three-and-onehalf years. A new
K-9 unit was approved later in February.
• Bad weather forced the school to use more
of their emergency days than expected. By the
first week of February, four of the five emergency days had been used due to snowfall and
severely cold temperatures.
• Former Chillicothe high school teacher
Polly Benten died at the age of 100.
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March
• Shaun Grant was hired
by IVC District 321 to replace
longtime principal Mike Bethel at South School. Grant has
a three-year contact with the
district.
• The 68th annual Chamber
of Commerce Banquet at the Shaun Grant
end of March culminated with
its annual awards.
Winning awards were: Rachael Parker of
Sweet Cakes by Rachael, Business of the Year;
Mike Krost, Past President’s Award; Sandi
Levell, Civic Achievement Award presented
by the city; the Rev. Ted Mitchell of First
United Methodist Church, Organization of
the Year; Teresa Storti, Ambassador of the
Year; and Irvin Latta of Maloof Realty, Member of the Year.
June
• Sharon Crabel resigned as city clerk
after holding the position for 25 years. Crabel remains the Chillicothe Township clerk.
Crabel’s mother-in-law, Ilion Crabel, served
as city clerk for 66 years and Chillicothe
Township clerk for 65 years.
• A new K-9
unit joined the
Chillicothe Police
Department. K-9
Dark was flown
from Germany
to Chicago to become a part of the
department.
• After almost
five decades of
bowlers, the Chilli Bowl closed its
doors April 18.
• A K-9 memorial honoring former K-9’s
Konan and Gosh was unveiled at the Chillicothe Police Department.
• A month after Sharon Crabel resigned as
city clerk, Margaret Hurd was approved to
be the new city clerk for the city. Hurd is the
third city clerk in 91 years.
• Rescue 33 started making its return with
ambulance coverage for Hopewell.
July
August
September
• The Chillicothe Relay for Life team raised
$328,727.93 this year, over $60,000 more
from last year’s total.
• Sgt. Nick Bridges was awarded the Fraternal Order of Police’s leadership award in
Springfield.
• Bill Batek retired as president and CEO
of First National Bank in Chillicothe after
24 years.
• A few weeks after the start of the school
year, the IVC District 321 school board noted
that enrollment was down 75 students over
the district. The largest decline was at Mossville School.
• The former Pizza Hut found new owners and a new business in September. Lucky
Dog’s Pub & Eatery, owned by Dennis and
Sandy Luckett, opened its doors on Sept. 8
and features much of the food that was found
at the Chilli Bowl.
• A strong storm swept through Chillicothe
in late September, downing power lines
throughout the city and closing IVC District
321 schools. Both
South Elementary
and Chillicothe Elementary Center
were left without
power.
October
November
December
• After 16 years, Spider Hill once again
opened in October with Massacre Mansion,
the Trail of Terror and the option to shoot
zombies from a wagon with paintball guns.
• Michael Ratcliff was sworn in as the
Chillicothe Township supervisor at the end of
September. Ratcliff filled the unexpired term
of Karen Moewe, who stepped down after her
and her husband moved out of state.
• A new festival is planned for next year.
ZorroFest is capitalizing on the fact that creator Johnston McCulley is a 1901 Chillicothe
High School graduate.
• Fifteen teachers were awarded minigrants from IVC District 321. The grants
totaled almost $9,900. The IVC Educational
Foundation annually shares its proceeds to
help enrich students’ education in the classroom, above and beyond what the district
can provide.
• Chillicothe Fire Chief John Myers was
honored by the Chillicothe City Council for 50
years of fire service. Myers has been the chief
of the Chillicothe and Chillicothe Community
fire departments for the last 12 years.
• Chillicothe veterans revealed plans for
a Veterans Memorial Park. The park will be
located on a triangular property near Pearce
Community Center, Santa Fe Avenue and
Chestnut Street.
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• A new agriculture museum dedicated to
the history of local agriculture was opened
in July at Three Sisters Park. The museum
is housed in a new building located near the
park chapel northwest of the main pavilion.
So far, exhibits include an antique Avery
steam engine, a small buggy and a working
model of a self-propelled plow.
• Mossville saw a new drive-thru open
with The Other Dawg. The joint features
hot dogs, tenderloins, appetizers, ice cream
and more.
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• While Summer Camp was host to a slew
of attendees in May, police reported in June
that drug arrests were down compared to
previous years. However, more than three
pounds of marijuana
was seized by undercover agents.
• The annual
Claude-Elen Days
saw IVC senior Lauren Weber crowned
Miss Chillicothe, and
Sharon and Sid Crabel the 2014 parade
marshalls.
• A new apparel
store owned by Jamie Balfanz opened
on 4th Street called
Route 29.
• After more than 70 years, Blarney Castle
closed its doors in Rome. However, the pizza
recipe will continue on as the Slide Inn has
opened in its place and uses the same pizza
making style that patrons have enjoyed for
years.
• It was announced that the Steve Miller
Band will headline the 2015 Summer Camp
Music Festival that takes place on Memorial
Day weekend.
• Somber news shocked IVC high school as
six teenagers were injured and a former IVC
student was killed in a rollover crash Dec. 20
at Detweiller Park.
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The Running Club Winter
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13 at the Pearce Community
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to all ages and skill levels,
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age of 10 must run with an
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Weekend Snackpac The
January assembly dates
are 6 p.m. Jan. 7 and 21
at First United Methodist Church, Chillicothe in
Parish Hall. Use the Sixth
Street entrance. Everyone
is welcome. Like Chillicothe
Weekend Snackpac on
Facebook for updates and
reminders.
Celery Night Fever CCC
Children’s Ministry will be
hosting a family Veggie
Tales movie night at 6:30
p.m. Jan. 23 in the church’s
multi-purpose room. The
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will be from noon until food
is gone Jan. 10. The cost
is $2 each or three for $5
and carry out is available.
Proceeds are designated
for the Chillicothe Veterans
memorial Project. For more
information, call 274-4999.
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Bradley Ave., 274-2719. Visit
www.chillicothepubliclibrary.org for more info.
Closed all day Jan. 1 for New
Year and Jan. 23 for training
and maintenance.
Altrusa Club of Chillicothe has set out a “Cell
Phones for Soldiers” collection box at the Chillicothe
Public Library. Bring in old,
unused cellphones to be recycled. More info is available
at www.cellphonesforsoldiers.com.
Librarians Currently Looking for: artificial Christmas
trees, Beanie Babies, Lego
and Duplo blocks, games
and craft supplies and wrapping paper tubes.
Friday Night Gaming is
from 5 to 11 p.m. Jan. 9.
People can create a char-
acter or join the ongoing
Pathfinder RPG. There also
will be tabletop and strategy
games like Munchkin, Chez
Geek and Risk. Attendees
are encouraged to play one
of the games or bring their
own. Pizza and snacks will
be provided but outside
food is encouraged. The
event is for people 18 years
and older and no new players will be admitted after
8 p.m. This is a recurring
program. For more information, contact Genevieve at
274-2719.
Books and Tea will be Jan.
26 from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30
p.m. The group will discuss
“All the Light We Cannot
See” by Anthony Doerr.
The group meets once a
month to discuss a variety
of books. Tea and refreshments will be served.
AREA
The Penguin Project is
presenting “Seussical Jr.”
at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 23 and 24
and 2 p.m. Jan. 25 at Eastlight Theatre in East Peoria.
Tickets are $10 for adults
and $5 for youth. To reserve
tickets, call 699-SHOW or
visit EastlightTheatre.com.
alonetogether Grief Support Group 4:30-6 p.m.
Mondays in Group Room 4
of the Counseling Center at
Proctor Hospital. The grief
support group is opened to
the public and can help people experiencing grief from
loss of a loved one, divorce
or separation, loss of a pet,
or experiencing grief of any
kind. For more information
contact Steve at 672-5695
or steve.wilson@unitypoint.
org.
Central Illinois OCD Support Group meetings are
second and fourth Thurs.
of each month. Any person
with obsessive compulsive
disorder, or a friend or family member may attend.
Meetings are 7-8:30 p.m. at
Morton Public Library, 315
W. Pershing St., Morton.
713-3277.
Encore 2015 Morton Civic
Chorus show at Bradley
University May 19-24 to
support Central Illinois Memorial Kidney Fund’s effort
to help keep food on tables
of kidney dialysis patients in
central Illinois all year long.
To make a donation or for
more info, visit CIMKF.org.
Brighter Days Ahead
meetings offer support
for people who have experienced a mental illness.
Socialize, recovery-oriented
activities. Hours are 9
a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Thurs.;
9 a.m.-8 p.m. Fri; 9 a.m.-5
p.m. Sat. and noon-5 p.m.
Sun. For more info, call
222-2012.
Dickson Mounds Museum Bus Trip Participate
in a day-long bus trip to
Champaign-Urbana for the
Day of the Drum Festival
at the Krannert Center for
the Performing Arts March
14. Enjoy percussion music
from around the world and
listen to live music by artists
Rocky Maffit, the Billy Jonas
Band, body percussionists
Crosspulse Duo and Uzbekistan frame drummer Abbos
Kosimov. Drum circles and
workshops will also be held
throughout the day. In addition, participants may
explore the exhibits at the
Spurlock Museum. Cost is
$75 per person for Illinois
State Museum Society
members and $85 for nonmembers. The fee includes
travel to Champaign-Urbana, activities, and dinner.
Lunch on own. Registration
is required with a deadline
of Feb. 13. Space is limited.
For more information or
to register, contact Curator of Education Christa
Christensen at 547-3721.
The Illinois State Museum Dickson Mounds is located
between Lewistown and
Havana off Illinois Routes
78 and 97. The museum is
open free to the public from
8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. every day.
Tours and special programs
are available for groups
with reservations. For more
information call 547-3721 or
TTY 217.782.9175 or visit the
www.experienceDicksonMounds.com. Also check
out weekly updates on Facebook at “Illinois State Museum – Dickson Mounds.”
Toastmasters Meetings 5
p.m. the first Tuesday of the
month at the Morton Public
Library. Each meeting, a
speech manual project will
be explained and demonstrated through a presentation of the topics: happiness
and/or wellness. Members
and guests are encouraged
to participate to develop
speaking and leadership
skills. Call Linda at 397-7778
for more info, or visit www.
toastmasters.org.
Women’s Conference
at Redeemer Lutheran
Church, 6801 N. Allen Road,
Peoria, 7-9 p.m. Jan. 30 and
9 a.m.-3 p.m. Jan. 31. Keynote speakers: Julie Black
and Katie Black, Contemporary Christian Women’s
Academy. Conference
cost is $35 and includes
breakfast pastries, lunch
and materials. (Friday night
only — $10; Saturday only
$30; $5 late fee if registered
after Jan. 23). Childcare
available by trained staff at
no additional charge (donations appreciated but not
necessary). Pre-registration
required for each child. Sign
language interpreters will be
provided by student interns
from the Interpreter Preparation Program at Illinois
Central College. Women are
encouraged to bring their
Bibles. This conference is
for all women, teenage girls,
moms, grandmas, singles
and college-age of all denominations. For registration information visit the
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Return to the Peoria State
Hospital Gary Lisman
shares information about
the former mental hospital
and its history, treatments,
myths and legends, 6:30
p.m. Jan. 13 at the Washington Main Library, 380 N.
Wilmor Road.
Morton/East Peoria
Christian Singles meet at
7 p.m. every Thurs. at East
Peoria First United Methodist Church, 154 E. Washington St., in East Peoria.
Peoria Symphony Orchestra 2014-15 season tickets
on sale now. Festa Italiana 8
p.m. Jan. 17, Grace Presbyterian Church on Route 91;
Valentine’s Day with Quartetto Gelato, 8 p.m. Feb. 14
Peoria Civic Center Theater;
Visions of Vienna 8 p.m.
March 14 at Grace Presbyterian Church; Matinee at
the Movies 3 p.m. April 19
Peoria Civic Center Theater;
Gustav Mahler Symphony
No. 7, 8 p.m. May 9 at Peoria
Civic Center Theater; For
more info, call 671-1096 or
visit peoriasymphony.org.
Limelight Eventplex 8102
N. University St., Peoria.
693-1234. Get tickets at
ticketfly.com. An Evening
with Yvonne Greer, doors
7 p.m., show at 8 p.m.
Jan. 17. Tickets $20-$25;
WWCT-99.9’s Discovery
Concert Series with Bad
Suns. Tickets are standing
only general admission. A
non-perishable food item
to be donated to Friendship
House is requested when
arriving. Doors 6 p.m., show
at 7 p.m. Feb. 8. Tickets are
$6; Jay Goldberg Events
& Entertainment presents
Here Come the Mummies,
doors at 6 p.m., show at
8 p.m. Feb. 13. Tickets are
$22-$25; The Sound Bar
at Limelight Eventplex
presents Dead Language,
progressive rock band from
Peoria. Doors at 6 p.m.,
show at 8 p.m. Feb. 21. Tickets are $5-$10.
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Joann said collecting,
selling and even living
in a home of antiques is
a “lifestyle.”
Being drawn to antiques is not something
that Joann said necessarily reminds her of a
grandmother or other
family member.
“We go back further
than that. We like really, really early primitives. We like early
painted furniture. We
like really old pewter
… I love Firkins (sugar
buckets) and pantry
boxes,” Joann said.
In addition to offering some of their
own items at their new
business, the Smileys
also have 11 vendors
with room for 25 total.
Vendors may sell items
that are 25 years old or
older. No crafts or collectibles are allowed.
Vendors rent booth
space and are paid on
the 15th of the month
from the previous
month’s sales.
Some of the items
seen in the store prior
to Christmas were
lightning rods, lamps,
dishes, vases, a bicycle,
games and pictures.
“We really want a
variety in here. We
want to appeal to as
many people as we can,”
Joann said.
The Smileys found
the spot for their
business while driving by one day. They
purchased the 3,600square-foot building in
Sunnyland Oct. 15.
“We’d been looking around for a while
and just couldn’t find
something in our price
range that we thought
could make it work for
a mall,” Joann said.
Prior to opening, the
Smileys did a lot of
work. They knocked out
walls, doors and ripped
up carpet. They opened
their doors Nov. 29.
Joann is mainly
working at Homestead
Antiques as Glen still
works full-time for an
engineering firm.
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“That’s what we call
our business when
we’re out doing our
shows so we just naturally decided to call
them all the same
thing,” she said. “I like
to keep it short and
sweet.”
Joann said she thinks
there is a market for
antiques.
“With the closing of
Illinois Antique Center
in Peoria, there’s no
other mall in this area
that sells just antiques
and has a criteria like
we do, so I just felt like
there was a need for
something like this.”
So far, Joann said
they have had a good
amount of traffic in
their business.
“It’s right on Route 8
so we have four lanes
of traffic going past us
and I think Sunnyland’s
growing,” Joann said,
adding that her husband lived in the area
as a youth. “There are
good places to eat down
here. People should
WE ARE THE ORIGINAL
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Glen and Joann Smiley of Washington stand with some of the items they had for
sale prior to Christmas at their new business Homestead Antiques located at 2407
Washington Road. jeanette kendall/TimesNewspapers
CS-02518447
Joann Smiley laughed
when asked how her
new business Homestead Antiques came
about.
“On my part, it started in my late 20s and I
just always knew that I
wanted to do this someday,” Joann, who is now
57, said. “After family
obligations, it finally
got to be my time.”
She and her husband,
Glen Smiley, 62, of
Washington, opened
their new business at
2407 Washington Road.
The Smileys frequent
antique shows and are
avid collectors. Over
the past seven years
they have rented space
and sold their antiques
in various places, such
as Bishop Hill, Arthur
and the Bloomington
Third Sunday Market.
Prior to that they sold
some antiques out of
their home.
“We really enjoyed
that part of it, so now,
we’ll kind of combine
it,” Joann said. “We’re
passionate about out
antiques. We’re just really passionate about
finding that special
thing that speaks to us,
something that makes
us feel warm and fuzzy.”
The Smileys even
have their home decorated with antiques, including a rope bed and
trundle bed.
“I just like the
warmth of antiques.
I’ve always liked that.
I’m not a person that
likes the modern of
brass and glass and
leather and all of that,”
Joann said.
One item Joann said
she found recently that
gave her a “warm fuzzy”
feeling was an old
cheese basket.
“I’d been looking for
one for a long time
that I could afford and
a dealer happened to
have bought two of
them from Pennsylva-
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OPINION
THE FIRST AMENDMENT
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exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of people
peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Questions? Contact Editor Marianne Gillespie at 686-3016 or email at ctb@timestoday.com
America’s best days ahead or behind?
The Washington Post
recently ran a fascinating interactive graphic
that allowed readers to
click on any county in
the nation to find out
when median household
income, adjusted for
inflation, peaked there.
One guess when that
happened in Peoria and
Tazewell counties.
Anyone who’s lived in
central Illinois for any
length of time and has
a historical perspective
knows the answer. It was
1979, of course, just before the Caterpillar crash
that saw thousands of
local layoffs, which reverberated throughout
the region and became
synonymous with the
Rust Belt blues.
Residents of Peoria
County never had it so
good, financially speaking, as they did about
the time disco was phasing out, with a typical
family earning $62,247
in today’s dollars. In
Tazewell, that number
was $67,853.
Indeed, if despite our
local economic rebounds
we’ve still been on a
35-year wage slide, most
of America can pinpoint
its decline starting in the
mid-1990s; 81 percent of
U.S. counties now have
lower income levels than
they did 15 years ago, according to the Post.
Is it any wonder the
newspaper put that
story under the headline,
“Most Americans’ best
days are behind them”?
America has had its
economic ups and downs
over its nearly 240 years,
of course, but arguably
not since the Great Depression have attitudes
about the potential for a
brighter tomorrow been
more despairing. And
for legitimate reason.
If economic growth
is up 83 percent in real
terms over the last 25
years, if corporate profits have doubled as a
percentage of America’s
overall economic pie
over that time, if workers have become twice as
productive — with the
help of technological advancements, which can
be a double-edged sword
— the income needle for
the typical family seems
permanently stuck on
1989. The New York
Times reports that 16
percent of men — triple
the rate of the 1960s
— and 30 percent of
women ages 25-54 are
not working.
Yet we read that the
economy is on the uptick, with the 321,000
jobs added last month
the best in years, with
overall unemployment
declining, the stock market robust and house
prices up. It’s just not
being seen in paychecks
outside of the rich, who
the statistics suggest are
doing fine. The nation’s
wealth gap — not just
annual incomes, but accumulated assets — just
hit a 30-year high.
And yet, outside rhetoric about raising the
minimum wage, it’s the
most unaddressed political issue in the nation.
That’s curious, given the
undeniable link between
financial insecurity and
social instability. When
people can’t keep up,
families disintegrate,
educational outcomes
decline, substance abuse
elevates, prisons fill up,
governments with more
demands on them than
ever struggle as the vast
majority with less disposable income punish
public budgets.
Central Illinois was
among the first to feel
the effects of all this
because of its manufacturing-based economy.
Companies like Caterpillar, confronted by unprecedented global competition, dramatically
transformed themselves
to survive.
Is anybody in politics
asking how the nation is going to support
the rising number of
Americans — including the young, college
grads among them —
for whom there are not
enough jobs paying a liv-
ing wage?
Evidently not. Congress just passed a
budget that disproportionately helps the
wealthy. Local economic
development efforts consist mostly of throwing
taxpayer money at wellheeled developers, perhaps under the theory —
or illusion — there will
be trickle-down benefits
that, for decades, have
not materialized as advertised.
Perhaps we’re about
to turn the corner, with
a wave of prosperity
coming in which more
Americans get to participate.
We’ll keep our fingers
crossed, while confident
only in the belief that
democracy is a delicate
balance that can never
be divorced from economic security, and that
this nation is far better
off with a hopeful middle
class than without one.
— GateHouse Media
Illinois
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Commentary
Does media excuse homegrown terrorists?
U.S. airstrikes from 52
percent to 78 percent, for
deploying U.S. ground
troops from 19 percent
to 44 percent, and for
providing arms to Syrian
rebels from 25 percent to
62 percent.”
If the specter of ISIS
atrocities or jihadist
attacks on U.S. soil has
provoked an outcry,
where is the outrage
from media, politicians
or even the public about
Americans murdering
Americans?
Indeed, since the
9-11 attacks, on Sept.
11, 2001, jihadists have
killed 20, including three
in the Boston Marathon
bombing, according to
researcher Peter Bergen
of the New America
Foundation. Over the
same time period, rightwing extremists have
killed more than 30
Americans.
Since 9-11, more than
62 “major terrorist plots
and racist rampages
have emerged from the
American radical Right,”
according to the Southern Poverty Law Center,
which maintains a thorough database on such
crimes.
Those attacks by
Americans on Americans
include Ku Klux Klan
members, American Nazis, white supremacists,
self-styled militia, and
anti-Semitic and other
violent extremists.
They were nabbed
using pipe bombs, hand
grenades, firebombs, C-4
explosives, nerve gas,
radioactive materials and
even an antiaircraft gun.
They planned to kill or
kidnap police, elected
officials, banks, National
Guard troops, minori-
ties, Jews, judges, people
of other religions, and
government facilities.
“We have become
fairly inoculated to such
horrors,” Zemko writes,
“even those identical to
what terrorists groups
GateHouse Media Illinois
Police are urging
motorists to avoid the
most common causes
of fatal accidents as
the busy holiday travel
season closes out a year
with the fewest number
of traffic deaths in the
state since 2009.
Through Dec. 23, 898
deaths have been recorded on Illinois roadways — 7 percent fewer
than the 965 people
who had died through
the same date last year,
according to the Illinois
Department of Transportation.
The Peoria region,
however, has experienced a year-over-year
increase, with a pronounced spike on certain types of roads.
“There was an increase in deaths on city
roads from the previous
year,” said Trooper Ross
Green, the safety education officer for the area.
Figures provided
by the Illinois State
Police in District 8
show the five-county
region around Peoria
has had 11 fatalities on
city streets, up from
six total in all of 2013.
Counted among those is
the fatal crash at Detweiller Park.
Overall, 41 people
in Peoria, Tazewell,
Woodford, Marshall
and Stark counties have
died in traffic crashes
in 2014. A total of 34
people died on the same
roads in all of 2013.
Deaths on interstates
in the region are down
— to two from three —
while fatalities on state
and U.S. highways and
on county roads are up.
Highway deaths are at
18 from 16. Fatalities
on county roads are up
by one, to 10 so far this
year.
Green said the regional decrease on
interstates is significant because the speed
limit was raised to 70
mph this year. Some
opposed the speed
limit hike on grounds
it could lead to more
interstate deaths.
Troopers have focused on state and
U.S. highways since
the number of deaths
on those roads began
to trend higher earlier
this year, Green added.
“Mainly during work
days, we focus hard on
seat belts and speed
— and being visible,”
Green said. “At night,
we look more for impaired driving.”
State and local police
will conduct special
holiday patrols through
the end of the year
watching for the fatal
four — speed, seat belt
usage, distracted driving and impaired driving.
—Contact Bill at Bill.
Knight@hotmail.com;
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are archived at billknightcolumn.blogspot.
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A couple of
after ThanksgivSt. Louis men in
ing shot about
November were
100 rounds of
arraigned on federal
ammunition
charges for plotin downtown
ting to bomb the
Austin, Texas.
Gateway Arch with
However, such
a pipe bomb and
an attack by
Bill Knight
to kill the county
an American is
prosecutor and
hardly isolated.
Ferguson, Mo., poFrom Timothy
lice chief, apparently in
McVeigh to Cliven Bunretaliation for one of the
dy, a series of right-wing
grand juries not indictattacks has repeatedly ocing white policemen for
curred with comparably
killing unarmed African
scant attention by major
Americans.
newspapers, much less
The arrest of Brandon
cable TV or talk radio.
Baldwin and Olajuwon
A gunman shot and
Davis got a little atkilled three people at
tention, as it should,
a Jewish Community
although suspects are
Center and a retirement
innocent until proven
home in Overland Park,
guilty.
Kan., in April; a deputy
But getting far less atsheriff was shot at the
tention are the dozens of
Forsyth County Courtother Americans arresthouse in Cuming, Ga., in
ed, many already conJune; and Amanda and
victed, of equally serious
Jerad Miller shot two pocharges or worse, from
licemen and a bystander
killing lawful abortion
in Las Vegas also in June.
providers to planning to
They are terrorists, alattack undocumented
though they don’t neatly
immigrant children
fit media stereotypes.
crossing the border into
Still, polls show that
the American Southwest. the percentage of AmeriJust as there’s no
cans who think a foreign
excuse for violence
terrorist attack is “likely”
against those with whom has gone up 10 percent
you disagree, there’s no
since last spring, when
excuse for news media
the so-called Islamic
ignoring homegrown
State (ISIS) started getterrorists or essentially
ting coverage by broaddismissing them as discasters and attention
gruntled “patriots.”
on Capitol Hill, and the
Eric Boehler of Media
percentage of us who feel
Matters said, “Fox News
“less safe” than before
has routinely paid very
9-11 is up 19 percent, aclittle attention to breakcording to Micah Zenko
ing news stories that
in Foreign Policy magafeature right-wing, or an- zine.
ti-government, gunmen
TV viewers have become “far more likely to
who target law enforcesupport hawkish foreign
ment officials as a way
policies,” Zenko shows.
to deliver their warped
Since video of ISIS bepolitical messages.”
headings were released,
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Gas prices continue to fall in local areas
BY Dylan Polk and
Marlo Guetersloh
TimesNewspapers
The dropping gas
prices have been a
welcomed sight at the
pumps in the last few
months.
And while the lower
prices are giving some
area cities a break in
the fuel budgets, several area city officials
say the continued high
diesel prices may keep
some communities
from reaping big savings of taxpayer dollars.
In Chillicothe, city officials have not seen the
dip in prices having any
effect on their budget,
thanks mostly to Mother Nature.
Because of the relatively mild weather so
far this winter, there
hasn’t been a need to
deploy city vehicles.
Therefore, Public
Works Superintendent
Josh Cooper said the
city cannot tell whether
low gas prices have had
any effect on the city’s
budget.
“With the weather
Antique
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know about us down
here.”
Joann also credits
the vendors for making
their booths attractive
and inviting.
“I think we have wonderful dealers here so
far,” she said.
Plus, Joann said,
“When people are passionate about antiques,
they’ll drive anywhere.”
Homestead Antiques
the way it is, we haven’t
had to fuel up the big
(trucks),” Cooper said.
“...So we haven’t really
noticed much of a difference.”
Cooper did say while
the city has not had to
spend as much money
on gas because of the
weather, there are no
plans for how the city
would use leftover
funds.
In any case, Cooper
anticipates the low
prices as a temporary
luxury.
“It’s going to go up
eventually, right?” Cooper said. “It’s never going to stay down.”
So far, area cities
such as Washington
and East Peoria are
reporting 5-8 percent
savings on fuel costs.
The village of Morton
is expected this week
to approve a new fuel
contract that could save
the village 33 percent,
or more than $50,000
this year.
The U.S. Department
of Energy’s website lists
the monthly national
average for regular
gasoline in July of 2014
was $3.61. From July
to December, the average price dropped 45
percent.
Area gas prices have
hovered at $1.99 in recent weeks.
However, the price
of diesel has dropped
14 percent in that same
time, said the department of energy.
For the city of Washington, the drop in
gas prices has meant
about $6,000 in savings through the end of
October. Public Works
Director Ed Andrews
said the city is still
compiling its fuel bills
for November and December.
Andrews said from
May to October 2014
Washington spent
about $84,543 in fuel.
Washington spent
$90,741 during the
same time period in
2012 — a more typical
year for the city’s budget.
The city budgeted
about $200,000 a year
for fuel cost, Andrews
said.
Andrews was cautious about predicting
how much the city will
see in fuel savings this
fiscal year with snow
plowing still ahead.
“Given our blended
fleet of both diesel and
gasoline powered vehicles, as well as the
historic trend for price
rebounding and what
winter may still bring
as far as snow plowing,
we would not yet anticipate a large savings on
fuel costs for fiscal year
end in April,” Andrews
said.
Meanwhile the city
of East Peoria has seen
about a 5 percent savings in gasoline prices,
said City Administrator
Tom Brimberry.
Typically, the
city budgets about
$300,000 a year to
keep the city’s fleet of
squad cars, snow plows
and utility trucks running.
“The city is thankful for lower gasoline
costs for both itself and
residents,” Brimberry
said. “Thus far we have
savings of about 5 per-
has a Facebook page
where they post items
they have for sale.
Prior to Christmas,
the Smileys sold a lot
of vintage Christmas
items. They also sell
items that are nostalgic
to people.
“A lot of people are
attracted to things they
had as kids. I just had
a guy buy a bowling
game. He was laughing
and playing with it,”
Joann said.
Joann said she enjoys
talking to customers
and hearing their stories.
“I’m learning the first
names of people who
come in here to check
us out. They just want
to come in and see what
we’re doing,” Joann
said, adding that they
offer free coffee to patrons.
“She doesn’t know a
stranger,” Glen said of
his wife.
In the future, Joann
said she wants a website and to host special
events at the business.
“We’d like to have a
spring show and have
some goodies and
treats,” she said.
Although being a bit
tired, Joann said she is
very excited about her
new venture.
“It is a dream come
true for me,” she said.
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cent, not as much as
gasoline is down right
now, but the city’s budget includes diesel as
well as gasoline and it
is calculated to cover a
12-month period.”
Brimberry said so far,
there are no plans for
how the city will use
the extra money if the
gas prices continue to
remain low.
The village of Morton planned to award
its fuel contract with
Ag-Land FS Inc. at its
village board meeting
Monday.
The new contract
priced unleaded gasoline at $2.05 per gallon, which includes
the state motor fuel
tax.
Ag-Land FS was the
only company to place
bids and the contract
will begin Feb. 1.
Morton director of
public works Craig
Loudermilk said the
new contract will offer
about $53,000 in savings, or 33 percent.
Morton provides fuel
to its village vehicles
along with four other
agencies.
Morton Unit School
District 709, the park
district, TazWood
Community Services
and We Care all obtain
fuel through Morton
public works.
With all these
groups needing fuel,
the Morton depot
will go through about
210,000 gallons in the
fiscal year.
The village uses
about 68,000 gallons
of that.
“Obviously, I was
excited,” Loudermilk
said. “I knew we were
going to see a savings,
but I was pleasantly
surprised to see a 33
percent savings, because that’s money
that’s directly budgeted.
“Any time it gets in
that dollar range, it
looks pretty good,” he
added.
— TimesNewspapers
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story.
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Red Cross schedules
blood donation dates
The American Red
Cross is asking regular
and new blood donors
in Tazewell County to
remember January is
National Blood Donor
Month by scheduling a
donation over the month’s
first two weeks.
January is recognized
as a special month for donations due to a typically
significant decline in giving as the winter season
closes in and the holiday
season passes.
Donations in Tazewell
County can be made:
• Jan. 7 from 2-6 p.m.
at Dee-Mack Intermediate School, 506 N. Logan,
Deer Creek.
• Jan. 5 from 2-6 p.m.
at First Baptist Church,
700 S. Capitol St., Pekin.
• Jan. 12 from 2-7 p.m.
at United Methodist
Church, 107 N. Orchard,
Mackinaw.
• Jan. 12 from
12:30-6:30 p.m. at Washington Community at Five
Points, 360 N. Wilmor.
• Jan. 14 from noon-6
p.m.at Tremont Junior
High School, 400 W.
Pearl St., Tremont.
• Jan. 14 from 3-8 p.m.
at Washington Community Five Points in Washington.
• Jan 15 from noon6p.m. at St. Paul’s United
Church of Christ, 101 N.
Eighth St., Pekin.
To schedule donations
call (800) 733-2767 or
visit www.RedCrossBlood.
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Jukebox to put on holiday show
A special Christmas
family friendly music
variety show for all ages
featuring the band Jukebox Saturday Night will
take place from 7 to 9 p.m.
Friday at the Fon du Lac
Park District Administration Building, 201 Veterans Drive, in East Peoria.
Doors will open at 6:15
p.m. and the show starts
at 7 p.m. Admission is
$8 per person or $15 per
couple.
Jukebox Saturday Night
features a variety of musical styles including country, oldies, gospel, soft
rock and more, along with
jokes and audience participation. The band will
perform the second Friday
night of each month.
Jukebox Saturday Night
features vocalist Steve
Hargis, winner of multiple
music and entertainment
awards, as well as wellknown area performers
Rocky Matlock on drums,
Gary Nabors on keyboards
and vocals, Janice Zilm
on steel guitar and vocals,
and Chuck Tucker on guitar and vocals, and Mark
Nabors on bass guitar.
Seating is open and
reservations are not
needed. The Park District
Administration building
is handicapped accessible. Refreshments will
be available. For more
information or in case of
bad weather call 369-8487
or email rockcandy1976@
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Carpet Weaver’s named Floorscapes Retailer of Year
At its 2015 Solutions
Convention, Mohawk announced the winners of
the company’s National
Retailer of the Year awards,
which recognizes the topperforming retailers in the
company’s Floorscapes
aligned retailer program.
Central Illinois-based
Carpet Weaver’s was
named Floorscapes Retailer of the Year. Owners
Mark Weaver and Tyler
Weaver were recognized
before industry leaders and
retailer peers at the Mohawk aligned retailer gala
in Orlando, Fla.
“Under the leadership
of Mark and Tyler, the associates of Carpet Weaver’s
are leaders in their field
and set the standard for
the flooring retail industry,”
said David Duncan, senior
vice president of marketing at Mohawk. “Carpet
Weaver’s eight locations are
best-in-class retail flooring
businesses. Their associates
are experts in all aspects of
flooring, including product,
marketing, service and
installation. These retailers
are assets to their communities, and we are proud to
include them as a business
partner and an integral
part of the Mohawk family.”
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What’s going on: Lady Grey Ghosts seeing change in team’s culture. IVC boys go 0-4 at
State Farm Classic. Three wrestlers go 10-0, make all-tourney team at Champaign St.
Thomas More holiday tournament.
Questions? Contact Reporter Dylan Polk at 274-2185, 686-3032 or email at ctbsports@timestoday.com
Grey Ghosts swept at State Farm Classic
Coming up:
Saturday — vs. MahometSeymour, 6:30 p.m.
By DYLAN POLK
TimesNewspapers
NORMAL — Any efforts
to salvage a win in the
State Farm Classic were
dashed for the Illinois Valley Central boys basketball
team on Dec. 29 when the
Grey Ghosts exited the
tournament with a 61-42
loss to 16th-seeded Plainfield South, ending IVC’s
tourney appearance and
completing a four-game
skid for the Grey Ghosts.
IVC matched the Cougars’ offensive efforts in
the opening frame, tied
Tuesday — vs. Stanford
Olympia, 6:30 p.m.
13-13 at the end of the first
quarter. Plainfield South
outshot IVC in the second
frame, scoring 10 points
to IVC’s eight and taking a
23-21 lead at halftime.
The Cougars pulled
away in the third quarter,
outscoring IVC 19-11 to
take a 42-32 lead headed
into the final frame.
Another 19-point performance for the Cougars
proved to be the dagger
as Plainfield South held
IVC to 10 fourth-quarter
points to secure a win.
Junior Matt Keffeler led
the Grey Ghosts with 12
points, followed by senior
Mason Schaub with seven,
senior Jarom Hutson
with six and sophomore
Cameron Owdom with
five. Junior Noah Benson
added four points for IVC,
and McMorrow, Layne,
Mercer and senior Taylor
Nieukirk each added two
points.
Senior Shane Ritter led
Plainfield South with 22
points, followed by junior
Jacob Buchner with 16
and junior Nick Welter
with 12.
Illinois Valley Central sophomore Jordan Mercer, right,
is guarded by Champaign Centennial senior Anthony
Martin during the opening round of the State Farm
Classic on Dec. 26 at Normal West Community High
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‘Change in the culture’
Lady Ghosts embrace attitude change under first-year coach
By ADAM DUVALL
This Christmas, everything was
new for Illinois Valley Central.
The Grey Ghosts found themselves
at an unfamiliar girls basketball
holiday tournament under a firstyear coach.
Five seniors — Katelyn Heinz,
Erica Larson, Shayna VanOstrand,
Demi Johnson and Madi Horack —
are embracing the changes and looking to build a solid team chemistry.
“We just really want to work hard,”
Heinz said. “That’s our big push ...
just get in the gym (for practice)
and spend two solid hours in there
working and come out here and do
our best.
“It’s been fun so far.”
IVC went winless in pool play at
the 36th Annual Manual Holiday
Tournament on Dec. 26. Losses to
the hosts, 54-49, and Limestone, 5551, put the Lady Grey Ghosts in the
Saturday loser’s bracket game versus
Dunlap, a game IVC lost 44-40.
IVC would eventually come away
with a win on the final day of the
tournament, topping Springfield
Lanphier by a score of 65-46.
Larson led the way against the
Rams with 13 points, five assists,
four rebounds and three steals.
Junior Haylea Johnigk came off
the bench to score 12 points, while
VanOstrand added 10 points and
eight rebounds.
Heinz grabbed 11 of the Ghosts’ 34
rebounds.
“There’s not a star on the team and
that’s what I love about us,” Heinz
said.
In previous years, IVC played the
small-school field at the Lady Bruins
Classic hosted by St. Bede in Peru.
This year the Ghosts get a taste of
going head-to-head against Class 3A
and 4A schools.
Plus, IVC is a part of the Corn Belt
Conference and will play teams like
Normal U-High, Bloomington Central Catholic, Eureka, Pontiac and
Mahomet-Seymour twice a season.
“These are the types of games we
want to play to get better,” coach
Martin Pazanin said following the
Three Grey
Ghosts go
unbeaten in
tournament
By DYLAN POLK
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Illinois Valley Central senior Katelyn Heinz, right, goes up for a shot against
Dunlap junior Callie Fisher, left, during a Dec. 27 game at the Peoria Manual
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five-point loss to Manual. “We just
want to continually improve.”
That growth on the court has come
from IVC’s senior core. They all have
played together since freshmen year,
have some classes together and are
friends off the court.
VanOstrand says everyone getting
along has changed the general outlook throughout the entire program.
“There’s a really positive attitude
and it’s nice to have it like that,
because in the past, it really wasn’t,”
she said.
At the Springfield Southeast
Thanksgiving Tournament, IVC
showed what it could to do. The
Ghosts, who went 8-21 last season,
CHAMPAIGN — The Illinois Valley
Central wrestling team finished 6-4 and
sent three wrestlers to the All-Tournament Team at the Champaign St. Thomas
More New Year’s Challenge at Champaign.
IVC seniors Riley Beard and Jordan
Ladd, and junior Nick Norris all finished
undefeated in the tournament, each taking 10 wins to earn spots on the All-Tournament Team.
IVC finished 20th of 37 teams. LenaWinslow took first place, followed by Coal
City.
The Grey Ghosts (13-8) opened the
tournament against Pool A opponent
Mount Carmel, taking a 42-30 win.
Norris earned a 10-second fall over
Mount Carmel’s Cindy Mauck in the
106-pound division, while junior Ethan
Sutherland (138) took a win with a
48-second fall against Mount Carmel’s
Brayden Berbrich.
Beard (152) earned a win with a 34-second fall against Tristian Riley, and senior
Chase Dietrich (170) earned a win with
a 36-second fall against Mount Carmel’s
Tyler Moore.
IVC freshman Caleb Fritz (145) and
Ladd (195) both earned a win by forfeit.
In Match 2, the Grey Ghosts fell to
Clinton by a score of 52-23.
Norris earned his second win of the day
with a 1-minute fall over Clinton’s Kaleb
Johnson, while Beard earned his second
with a 1-minute, 35-second fall over Luke
Shobe.
IVC junior Nick Jennings earned a
2-minute, 15-second fall against Logan
Wood in the heavyweight division, while
Ladd earned a 15-0 technical fall over
Clinton’s Dalton Whitted.
The Grey Ghosts took their second win
of the tournament with a 34-31 win over
Beardstown in Match 3.
Senior Elijah Repke earned his first
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Years later, Chief Illiniwek still a source of controversy
In 2007, the University of
Illinois retired Chief Illiniwek,
the official mascot and symbol of the Fighting Illini since
1926.
Admittedly, I was among the
throng of Illini fans desparately petitioning to keep our
beloved mascot in place.
It’s not racist, we’d cry. It’s
honorable! It’s tradition! The
NCAA has no right to tell us
what to do!
Despite the outcry, the
Chief danced his last halftime
performance on Feb. 21, 2007,
during a game against Big Ten
rival Michigan.
In the month following, the
U. of I. board of trustees voted
to retire the Chief ’s name, image and regalia.
At the time, everyone
thought that was the end of the
Chief.
However, upon being exiled
by the university, ownership
of the Chief transferred to a
group calling itself “the Council of Chiefs,” a group of former
Chief portrayers that named a
student to carry on the headdress in 2008.
Since then, the Chief has
made numerous appearances on or around the U. of
I.’s campus, all of which were
unsanctioned by the university,
including a halftime appearance during a game between
Illinois and Indiana in October
2012.
Now, the Chief is about one
step away from becoming the
novelty party
clown you
might invite to
a child’s birthday party.
On Sunday,
the sports
blog Deadspin
DESKTOP
reported the
PUNDITRY
Chief would
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perform during a high
school boys
basketball
game when Tuscola hosts Sullivan on Friday.
The event was even promoted through the Tuscola school
district’s Twitter account (@
TuscolaCUSD301), which last
week posted two promos for
the performance.
Throughout the last year,
the use of Native American
imagery and mascots has come
under heavy scrutiny from the
national media.
Catching the most ire is the
Washington Redskins, who
have been criticized for everything from their team name
— interpreted as a racial slur
— to their logo.
All the while, Washington
owner Dan Snyder — notorious for his contentious relationships with the press — has
been as stubborn to listen to
the other side of the coin as he
has to put a winning team on
the field.
The controversy sparked a
Super Bowl commercial by the
National Congress of Ameri-
can Indians — which didn’t air,
thanks in part to the price tag
for running a Super Bowl commercial — and a Daily Show
segment that almost didn’t air
because of fan outrage.
The Cleveland Indians have
also drawn criticism for their
use of the cartoony Chief
Wahoo, but to their credit, the
team seems to be moving away
from the controversial mascot,
opting instead for a block “C”
as their primary cap logo.
Even my beloved Chicago
Blackhawks, whose use of
Native American imagery is
limited to just the primary and
secondary logos, have drawn
some criticism for their logos,
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started 3-0 before a
56-39 loss to 3A stateranked Rochester in the
title game.
When talk of that first
tournament is brought
up, surprising is one
word that gets thrown
around.
“Going into the tournament, we thought we
were going to come out
and not win a game,
because (we were play-
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tame as they are compared to Washington or
Cleveland.
In the eight years —
My god, it’s been that
long?! — since the Chief ’s
retirement, my views on
the mascot have radically
changed.
It’s impossible to view
the character as nothing more than a racist
caricature.
Let’s look at the Chief
for exactly what he was,
in the simplest terms:
A white student would
dress in stereotypical Native American garb, supposedly resembling what
the “real Chief ” would
have worn, and would
dance around like a Hollywood Indian would to
music reminscent of old
cowboys versus Indians
westerns.
Call it tradition, call
it honorable, but the
plain and simple truth
is there was no difference between that and
the old minstrel shows
of the early 20th century,
during which white actors would smear black
paint on their faces and
unabashedly mock black
people.
Like many Illini fans,
I defended the Chief by
saying it was an honor-
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win of the tourney with a
12-2 major decision over
Julian Perales.
After Beardstown took
three straight matches,
Ladd answered with a
5-minute, 26-second fall
over Jonathon Juarez.
Sophomore Fred Milliman (220) and Jennings
ing) bigger schools,” said
Larson, who was named
a Springfield Southeast
all-tournament team selection with VanOstrand,
“but I think we surprised
ourselves as well as the
community and the surrounding area.”
An aggressive defense
— man-to-man along
with a full-court press —
kept the Ghosts right in
the game with Manual,
which were outrebounded, 34-32. Ten of the
Rams’ 15 turnovers were
IVC steals.
A nine-point second
quarter run gave IVC a
one-point advantage,
then it tied the contest
late in the third quarter.
But a 13-2 push gave
Manual a lasting lead.
So where does IVC go
from here?
“There’s been a big
change in the culture,”
Pazanin said. “The way
we compete. The way we
practice. I think the girls
know what to expect and
buy into it.
“I think it’s going to be
a process.”
able representation of
Native Americans.
But how was it honorable? I never had any
evidence to back up this
claim. All I could say
was, “It was an honorable representation,” over
and over without ever
supporting my argument
with facts. Not once did
I consider the Native
American students and
fans who felt marginalized by an inaccurate,
offensive representation
of their own race.
Following the Deadspin report, the Tuscola
school district announced
it had canceled the
Chief ’s apperance, saying
it was in the interest of
ensuring the “highest
level of student/community safety.”
The decision was met
with a chorus of detraction as Twitter users
berated school administrators, calling them
“gutless” and other words
that aren’t suitable for
print.
On the Facebook page
for The Champaign
Room, an Illini blog
hosted by SBNation.com,
users again whined and
cried about how their
“constitutional rights”
— ah yes, the right to
watch a white guy poorly
pretend to be Native
American — were being
infringed. Again, the P.C.
liberals strike again!
As it did in 2007, the
argument became, “This
is OUR tradition!”
All this over a mascot
and a logo. That’s what’s
considered “tradition” in
first-world, middle-class
America: representations
of a sports team.
Remove your emotions from the situation
and analyze it from the
Native American point of
view. How would you feel
to see your culture being
so poorly represented,
essentially mocked, after
your ancestors were
systematically oppressed
to the point of many of
their descendants living
in poverty today? Does
the Chief really seem so
important after that?
It’s just a logo. It’s just
a mascot. If the Blackhawks announced today
they would change their
famous logo, guess who
would have a new hockey
sweater Thursday? I will
support that team no
matter what logo they
wear.
After all these years,
the Chief is still a controversy. And if the logic
behind his retirement is
still not understood now,
I’m afraid it never will be.
followed with back-toback wins by forfeit for
the Grey Ghosts, followed by Norris with a
over Andrew Flynn.
Beard rounded out
the third match with a
over McQuade Jackson
in the 145-pound division.
In the fourth match,
IVC took a 43-30 win
over Litchfield.
Norris opened the
match with a 30-second
fall over Collin Davidson.
Litchfield answered
back with four straight
wins, but IVC answered
right back with a 7-0 run.
Sutherland and Fritz
began the Grey Ghosts’
streak with wins by
forfeit, followed by Beard
with a 56-second fall
against Litchfield’s Doug
Carlile.
Repke followed with
a 15-1 major decision
against Billy Ringering,
then Dietrich earned an
11-0 major decision over
Isaac Shade.
Sophomore Mike
Meister (182) earned a
3-minute, 45-second fall,
and Ladd rounded out
the IVC wins with a 15-0
technical fall over Reese
Radtke.
The Grey Ghosts’ win
streak came to a halt in
the final match of pool
play, however, as IVC lost
to Lena-Winslow by a
score of 50-18.
Norris picked up a 2-0
decision to open the Grey
Ghosts’ scoring before
IVC gave up five straight
wins.
Beard followed that
with a 13-2 major decision over Kyle Kalkbrenner, and Dietrich
earned a 6-0 decision
over J.T. Barker.
Ladd earned a 15-0
technical fall over Anthony Martinez, and Jennings picked up the Grey
Ghosts final win of the
match with a 4-2 decision over Lena-Winslow’s
Tristan Miller.
In the championship
bracket, IVC dropped in
the opening round, losing by a score of 51-26 to
Murphysboro.
Norris earned a
over Sam Dietz. After
four straight losses, the
Grey Ghosts earned wins
by forfeit courtesy of
Sutherland and Beard.
Murphysboro then
gained another four
straight wins, but Ladd
answered with a 16-0
technical fall.
Jennings ended the
Grey Ghosts’ scoring
with a 9-4 decision over
Mason Osterhout.
In the first round of
consolation, IVC fell to
Monmouth-Roseville by
a score of 48-34.
Norris earned his
seventh win of the day
with a 47-second fall
over Kody Atwell, but
Monmouth-Roseville answered with five straight
wins.
Fritz answered back
with a 2-minute, 47-second fall over Zach Williams, followed by Beard
with a 1-minute fall over
Jonathan Valdivia.
Repke picked up a
over Jose Miranda, and
Dietrich won on a 1-minute, 20-second fall over
Devon Tate.
Ladd rounded out
IVC’s wins with a 14-4
major decision over Logan Millizer.
IVC would pick up two
more wins in consolation,
topping Braidwood Reed
Custer 42-27, and beating Benton by a score of
49-24.
The Grey Ghosts
return to Chillicothe to
host Farmington at 5
p.m. today.
—Dylan Polk is the
Times-Bulletin’s sports
editor, and still an Illini
fan.
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Comcast offers new streaming app ICC accepting
By jeanette kendall
TimesNewspapers
Remember when most
households had one
television with 13 channels that viewers had to
manually change via a
knob? Technology has
changed a bit since then,
and Comcast recently
announced its newest
technology for TV viewing called X1 DVR with
Cloud Technology for
central Illinois.
“It’s really cool,” Jack
Segal, Comcast’s regional
vice president of communications, said about
the new technology.
X1 is an app on a
smartphone, Android,
tablet, etc. that can be
downloaded for free.
With the app customers
can stream and watch
live TV and DVR recordings in the home anywhere. Those Comcast
customers who have the
X1 cable box can get this
new technology. Segal
said there are about 5
million X1’s in the market nationwide, with
more being added.
“So if I don’t have a
TV in my living room or
my back porch, in the
kid’s room, I can actually watch live TV on this
app,” Segal said. “You
can move it to anywhere
you want it. … You want
to watch in the kitchen
while you’re cooking and
then you want to move
outside in the backyard
while you’re eating, you
can do that as long as
you have a Wi-Fi signal.”
Another change with
the new technology
is that customers can
stream any TV programs
they have recorded on
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their DVR, whereas
them and take them on
before they could only
the go to watch without
stream
needing a Wi-Fi signal.
what they
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some things
do, you can
that are not available on
go to your recordings,
OnDemand that you can because you can’t get a
record and now you have consistent signal in your
access on the go to the
car … you can record it
OnDemand content and
and take it to go,” Segal
the DVR recordings,” Se- said.
gal said.
Another benefit, Segal
The other benefit of
said, is using the app
the new X1 app is that
on airplanes where the
customers can record
Wi-Fi signals may not be
programs, download
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“This is great to have
entertainment with
you when you’re on the
plane,” Segal said.
Segal said there are
over 9,700 Xfinity WiFi hotspots in Peoria
County: 9,000 homes,
53 outdoors and 624 in
businesses.
“As we’ve expanded
the ability to access
content on the go, we’ve
also expanded the Wi-Fi
hotspots,” Segal said.
The Xfinity Wi-Fi app
is free to download. Segal said there are about 8
million of these hotspots
across the country.
Customers can download the Xfinity TV app
from the Android and
iOS app stores, open it
and sign-in with their
Xfinity TV credentials.
Once they’re signed-in,
customers can begin
browsing their full
channel lineups in the
“Guide” section or scan
available recordings for
download in the “Saved”
section. On laptops and
computers, customers
can sign-in through the
Xfinity TV site to access
their X1 guides and DVR
recordings.
For more information,
customers can visit the
Xfinity support page on
www.comcast.com.
To locate Wi-Fi
hotspots, customers
can visit www.xfinity.
com/wifi or download
the Xfinity Wi-Fi app
on the Android and iOS
app stores. Xfinity WiFi is available to Xfinity
High-Speed Internet
customers for no additional charge. Noncustomers can have two
free one-hour sessions
per month.
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Appointments are
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Dental hygiene care
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Appointment times
vary, according to the
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approximately three
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Utilizing the G.I. Bill, Joe graduated from the University of
Illinois in 1992 with a Bachelor of Science degree and from
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Joe began his legal career in Bloomington, Illinois at the law firm of
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ICC counselor and author James Bryson opening Life Skills Academy
By Daria Sokolova
Throughout his career in social services
and education, James
Bryson has taught
many people how to
stop tripping and start
living.
As a counselor at Illinois Central College,
the Peoria native spent
years coaching and
mentoring those who
were falling behind on
their career and life.
While at ICC, Bryson
said he had noticed
certain changes in the
student population that
were negatively affecting people of all races
and socio-economic
backgrounds.
“Students not only
were coming in less
academically prepared,
but they were also coming in socially and emotionally unprepared,”
Bryson said. “And so,
with all those factors
put together, this was
causing a tremendous
low-retention rate, particularly for AfricanAmerican males.”
To address the situation, Bryson devised
in 2009 the Harvesting
Dreams African-American Male Program
at ICC. The program
addresses behavioral
problems and created
a welcoming environment for African-American males through a
non-traditional approach.
Bryson recalled the
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day when he heard
one of his students use
the N-word to greet
him. He was shocked
how freely some of the
students were using
the word that in Bryson’s mind brought up
haunting memories.
But he said the problem
was students didn’t understand the meaning
of the word.
This occurrence
prompted Bryson to
start working on something that later ventured far beyond ICC.
His book “Stop Tripping: Empowering African-American Males
to Succeed,” has taught
many how to overcome
a “self-handicapping
mindset,” transform
from a thug to a nerd
and connect body, mind
and soul to achieve
their full potential.
One of the key concepts that Bryson addresses in his program
and books is “selfhandicapping behavior,” where individuals
avoid responsibility for
their failures by using
their ethnicity, socioeconomic background
and other personal data
as an excuse.
“Most of this behavior
is unconscious,” Bryson said, noting that
such behavior not only
sabotages individuals’ opportunities to
succeed, but creates
“stumbling blocks” that
can lead to disengaging from society. In
most severe cases, Bryson said it’s a pipeline
to incarceration and
Convention 10 a.m.-4
p.m. Sunday at the Travelodge (former Grand
Hotel) located at 4400
N Brandywine Drive
in Peoria. The event is
open to the public. Ad-
mission is free. Dealers
specializing in comic
books new and old, toys
and related collectibles
will be on hand. Those
who have comics they
no longer want may
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the destruction of the
African-American male
persona.
“This is how African-American males
become socially, politically and economically
obsolete,” Bryson said.
“That’s a dispensable
group of individuals.”
According to the National Association for
the Advancement of
Colored People, African
Americans are incarcerated at nearly six times
the rate of whites and
make up for nearly 1
million of the total 2.3
million incarcerated
population in the United States.
Although he initially
focused his book on
helping African-American males, Bryson said
he has done training
with people from all
ethnicities and socioeconomic backgrounds.
The Harvesting Dreams
African-American Male
Program has been used
in GED programs and
workshops. A few years
back, Bryson founded
New Millennium Institute that teaches people
soft skills and helps to
maximize their potential.
“Our mission is to
help our students become the next generation of global leaders,”
he said.
Early next year, Bryson plans to open his
first Life Skills Academy, a community center with a job coach and
other specialists to help
unemployed and underemployed residents
of Peoria’s south side
and East Bluff promote
training and work force
development to become
self-sufficient.
Bryson can be
reached at 208-8778.
“Everybody has setbacks,” Bryson said.
“But everybody has a
comeback from (setbacks). So we talk
about how to help
people maximize their
potential.”
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AUTOMOTIVE
The world simply loves a Wrangler
in little more than trim.
Every single one comes
with the same engine: the
Chrysler/Jeep family’s
3.6-liter, 285-horsepower
Pentastar V-6, like it or
leave it. Happily, there’s
nothing wrong with this
motor, and it moves even
our four-door, steel-box
Sahara Unlimited’s twoplus tons every bit as fast
as you’d ever want to go,
considering its canal-boat
steering. Unhappily, however, neither the manual
transmission nor the
optional automatic (both
five-speeds) can crank out
more than about 20 mpg
— and that’s on the highway, in warm weather,
with no headwinds, in
2X4 RWD mode. Maybe
downhill, too.
Around town, we got
less than 16 mpg. When
tomorrow’s snowstorm
arrives, I won’t care about
gas mileage as we grind
down to the store for beer
and jerky, but day in and
day out I’d likely start fantasizing about, I dunno,
maybe 25 mpg? But to
the Jeep faithful, this is
like fretting about Megan
Fox’s IQ — who cares?
Like a date with Ms.
Fox, this machine is a
fantasy, an automotive
costume meant to tell the
world something about
us and what we like. All
Wranglers are the lineal
descendants of the little
olive-drab 4x4s our
fathers (or grandfathers)
bashed around Europe in
during the Big War. Take
the top off a Wrangler
and you can still fold the
windshield down onto the
hood, like in old MASH
episodes.
With this in mind, it’s
incredible that Jeep has
been able to make today’s
Wranglers so comfortable and quiet, relatively
speaking, and without
sacrificing their angle-iron
Jeepiness. In this respect,
the Wrangler Unlimited
is a lot like yet another
pricey German, the
Mercedes-Benz Geländewagen, or G-Class.
That too is a gussied-up
war veteran, a cinder
block of a 4×4 now with
a big motor and a fancy
interior.
While a bare-metal,
For 2015, Jeep offers still more variations on its evergreen Wrangler theme and
expands the options menu with new colors (here Baja Yellow) and infotainment
systems, plus a Torx tool kit in every vehicle. PHOTOS BY JEEP
short-wheelbase ragtop
Wrangler at 24 grand
is a heck of a deal for a
genuinely rugged booniebasher, our Sahara
Unlimited’s sticker of
$41,515 is what prompted
the “cash cow” comment earlier. That’s a
lot of extra money for
bigger wheels, two more
doors, leather trim, seat
heaters, a nine-speaker
stereo and a connectivity
and navigation package.
However, the extra inches
between the Unlimited’s
axles, not to mention
the second pair of doors,
make the stretch Wranglers that much more
useful, comfortable and
road-worthy than the
rockhopper two-doors.
And yet the four-door
versions, while doing a
fair imitation of a family
car, at least in town, can
still crawl over or around
most obstacles, space
permitting.
If you’re a baby Russian mobster who can’t
yet afford G-wagens for
your bodyguards, consider a couple of Wrangler
Unlimiteds. If you wear
cowboy boots under your
business suit, this may
be your vehicle. If you
already have a proper car
for the highway and are
looking for a round-town
rig with the character of a
bulldog and the mechanical machismo of a, well,
an old Jeep — this definitely is your vehicle.
Silvio Calabi reviews
the latest from Detroit,
Munich, Yokohama,
Gothenburg, Crewe,
Seoul and wherever else
interesting cars are born.
Silvio is a member of the
International Motor Press
Association, and former
publisher of Speedway
Illustrated magazine and
an author. Contact him at
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Peoria to host ICC accepting dental patients at
Elvis Lives show hygiene clinic at Downton Campus
The show features winners from the EPE annual
worldwide Ultimate Elvis
Tribute Artist Contest,
each representing Elvis
during different stages in
his career.
The Elvis tribute artists will be joined by a live
band, back-up singers and
dancers, along with an
Ann-Margret tribute artist,
as well as iconic imagery
made available from the
Graceland archives.
Illinois Central College’s Health Careers
Program is offering a
Dental Hygiene Clinic,
staffed by students
and faculty, at the ICC
Downtown Campus,
Thomas Building in
Peoria.
Appointments are
required for the free
cleanings.
Dental hygiene care
is provided for clients
5-years of age and
older for a flat rate fee
of $20, regardless of
the care needed. This
includes follow-up appointments.
There is no charge for
patients with a current
Medicaid card.
The clinic does not
bill Medicare or private
insurance.
The services provided
include dental cleanings, X-rays, fluoride
treatment, sealants and
oral hygiene instruction.
The clinic does not
fill or extract teeth.
Appointments are
available from 9 a.m. 4 p.m. Monday through
Friday and from 6
p.m. - 9 p.m. Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday.
Appointment times
vary according to the
availability of students
and faculty, so calling well in advance for
scheduling an appointment is recommended.
Patients should allow
approximately three
hours for their appointment, which will include a thorough health
history and dental
cleaning.
Both on-street meter
and deck parking are
available for a fee.
For more information or to schedule
an appointment, call
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in association with Elvis
Presley Enterprises Inc.,
announces the national hit
Elvis Lives will be presented Feb. 17 at Peoria Civic
Center Theater.
Tickets are on sale now
and available at $35, $45,
$55 and $65. Tickets can
be purchased at Ticketmaster.com, the Peoria
Civic Center Box Office,
all Ticketmaster locations or by phone at (800)
745-3000.
Elvis Lives, which keeps
on capturing the imaginations and interests of
fans of all types including
Broadway, concert and
Elvis aficionados, is an
unforgettable multimedia
and live musical journey
across Elvis’ life, according
to EPE officials.
B8
East Peoria distillery finds success in craft whiskey world
By Thomas Bruch
EAST PEORIA —
Jesse Williams and the
rest of the owners at
J.K. Williams Distilling
knew what they had in
their Young Buck Bourbon.
They had overseen
the acquisition of the
grain, observed its
mashing, fermentation
and distilling.
They had tasted it,
and were convinced of
the bourbon’s quality,
the smoothness and
sweetness of it.
Even then, it had to
be considered an underdog at the Great
American Distillers
Festival, held in Portland, Ore., in October
in the “Small Batch
Bourbon Aged Less
than 10 Years” category.
The Young Buck
wasn’t even aged a
whole year, and yet
it brought home the
bronze medal in that
category.
“It lends you credibility,” Williams said.
“Especially when you’re
cutting into the big
boys with only less than
a year.”
Jesse Williams, along
with his wife, Kassi, his
brother, Jon, and his
sister-in-law, Kristin,
opened a craft whiskey
distillery in October
2013 — the type of venture that has little precedent, particularly in
downstate Illinois.
Kassi Williams said
the best part about
In this file photo from October 2013, Jon Williams, owner of J.K. William Distilling,
LLC, in East Peoria, talks about the barrels, made at a cooperage in Minnesota, in
which the company’s craft whiskey will age. GateHouse Media Illinois
being a small business was starting the
second year of operations, since a baseline
of expectations exists
that can better gauge
how the business is performing.
The formative
months of J.K. Williams Distilling were
shoddy indicators of
what was to come.
The Nov. 17 tornado
eroded participation
in its first Small Business Saturday, and a
trove of product wasn’t
available while the first
batches of whiskey were
aging.
But much has
changed in the intervening year for the Wil-
liams clan, and not only
with the recent honors
bestowed upon their
whiskey.
Touring the distillery,
in a modest building off
Interstate-74 between
East Peoria and Morton, on weekends has
morphed into a local attraction.
On Saturday and
Sunday afternoons,
people are ferried
around J.K. Williams
and are shown the inner workings of the
whiskey operation, with
samplings to boot.
Both Kassi and Jesse
Williams expressed
their surprise at some
of the stories from people in the tour groups
who weren’t from central Illinois but made it
a priority to stop at J.K.
Williams in their travels through the area.
A label displays J.K. William’s Young Buck Bourbon,
The distillery’s secwhich is aged in East Peoria. GateHouse Media Illinois
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traffic that nearly delocally renowned small
Kassi Williams said
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coffee released in Ocgrowth fortified in the
can’t talk anymore,’”
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the coffee shop, with
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Jan. 9, 2015.
Mr. Walters and the
former Tulah Maxine
Snowden, both originally of
Table Grove, were married
Jan. 9, 1943, in Palmyra,
Mo.
A celebration in honor of
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the couple at: 1616 Holland Court, Chillicothe, IL
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Kay (Virg) McElfresh of The
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TERMS FOR REAL ESTATE: 10% down,
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Owners: Faith Baptist Church
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1011 N. Second St. • Chillicothe, IL 61523
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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
TENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF ILLINOIS
PEORIA COUNTY - IN PROBATE
IN THE MATTER OF
THE ESTATE OF
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) No. 14 P 540
JANA MARIE KRONES, )
)
Deceased. )
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
TENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF ILLINOIS
PEORIA COUNTY
IN RE THE ESTATE OF
RANDY J. ADAMS,
Deceased.
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) NO. 14-P-545
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Claims may be filed on or before the
1st day of July, 2015, and any claim not
filed on or before that date is barred.
Claims against the estate may be filed
in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit
Court, Peoria County Courthouse, Peoria,
Illinois, or with the Executor or both.
Within 10 days after a claimant files a
claim with the Court, the claimant must
mail or deliver copies of the claim to the
Executor and to the Executor’s attorney
of record and file with the Court proof
of mailing or delivery of such copies.
Dated December 19, 2014.
LISA ANN O’MALLEY,
Petitioner, by her attorneys,
DUNLAP LAW OFFICE, P.C.
BY: BLAKE E. DUNLAP
Notice is given of the death of RANDY
J. ADAMS, on December 1, 2014 and that
an order was entered on December 22,
2014 appointing BOB ADAMS, whose
address is 21124 Blue Ridge Road,
Chillicothe, Illinois 61523 as Independent
Executor. The Attorney for the estate is
Michael T. Mahoney, 1011 N. Second
Street, P.O. Box 295, Chillicothe, IL 61523.
Claims may be filed on or before June
22, 2015 or six (6) months from the date
of the first publication of this Notice of
Claim Date and any claim not filed on or
before that date is barred.
Claims against the estate may be filed
in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit
Court of Peoria County, 324 Main
Street, Peoria, Illinois 61602, or with the
Executor, or both. Within ten (10) days
after a claimant files its claim with the
Court, the claimant must mail or deliver
a copy of the claim to the representatives
and to their attorney of record and
file with the Court a proof of mailing or
delivery of said copies.
Dated this 22nd day of December, 2014.
/s/ Michael T. Mahoney
BLAKE E. DUNLAP
Attorney for the Estate
DUNLAP LAW OFFICE, P.C.
416 main Street, Suite 403
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Notice is given of the death of JANA
MARIE KRONES on October 3, 2014,
and that Letters Testamentary were
issued December 16, 2014, to LISA ANN
O’MALLEY, whose attorneys are the
DUNLAP LAW OFFICE, P.C., 416 Main
Street, Suite 403, Peoria, Illinois 61602.
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