•August 29, 2018•
The Sullivan boys’ golf team won two meets and placed third in the 15-team John Macek Invitational this past week.
Thursday (Aug. 23), the Redskins defeated Arcola, Shelbyville and Meridian with a low score of 149.
Caden Ellis was medalist with a score of 33 (3 under).
Leighton Burcham followed with a 36, and Drew Rogers, Tim Lawyer and Logan Westjohn each shot a 40.
Leyton Ellis rounded out the Redksins’ scoring with a 41. Read More
25 Years Ago This Week
Ninety-four-year-old Hazel Bentz of Bethany was honored recently for her 13 years of volunteer services for Moultrie County. For the past six years Bentz crocheted afghans for babies which are distributed through the WIC program, CEFS and the Dept. of Public Aid.
The Sullivan Redskin football team is preparing for its ’93 season opener against the Shelbyville Rams. Senior co-captains are David Elder, Jason Wildman, Jason Moody and Bubba Farris. They lead a team of 89 this year with 20 players coming from Bethany and two from Findlay.
Roger and Sally Glazebrook have opened a framing business in Sullivan called Worth Framing. The couple said their goal is to give people what they want at a cost they can afford. The interest came when a friend gave them a print for a wedding gift, and a relative made a frame for them due to the high price of framing. Read More
Black Hawk statue is seen from the west side of the Rock River on Wednesday, July 16, 2014, at Lowden State Park in Oregon. MAX GERSH/RRSTAR.COM
•August 29, 2018•
By Chuck Sweeny
Of the Rockford Register Star
First, let’s get his name straight. It was Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak. In English, he was Black Hawk, war chief of the Sac and Fox tribe who lived most of his life in the Rock River Valley in northern Illinois.
Black Hawk was born in 1767 in Saukenuk, a Sac and Fox village on the Rock River in northwestern Illinois. He built his reputation as a war fighter leading his tribe in skirmishes against the Osage tribe.
In the late 1700s and early 1800s, a new enemy appeared — Americans, relentlessly moving west from the Eastern states, claiming the land for themselves as they went, building homes and villages and fencing off the fields.
The U.S. Army and state militias accompanied the settlers and protected them against the people who had been there for thousands of years. Treaty after treaty was made between the native people and the U.S. government, and they were regularly broken.
One of those documents was the Treaty of 1804, signed in St. Louis by representatives of the Sac and Fox tribe and U.S. officials. Black Hawk, who had not been at the signing, thought the treaty merely ceded some of the tribe’s ancestral hunting grounds to the American settlers. Read More
•August 29, 2018•
The Okaw Valley boys’ golf team placed second in a triangular at Woodlawn Country Club in Farmer City last Thursday
Blue Ridge won with a score of 174, and OV shot a 216. Read More
Photo furnished
Bob Patient takes Wyman Lake plunge.
•August 29, 2018•
By Ellen Ferrera
for the News Progress
Eight people baptized in the river behind Lehman farm in 1883 marked the beginning of the First Baptist Church of Sullivan.
To celebrate its 135th anniversary, the First Baptist Church has planned a community homecoming service and potluck on Sunday, September 9 at the church located at 215 East Harrison in Sullivan.
The service will begin at 10 a.m. with guest speaker the Rev. Paul Gibson, Executive Minister of the Great Rivers Region, delivering the sermon.
The potluck will follow in the church’s Fellowship Hall, and the public is cordially invited.
The First Baptist Church is one of Sullivan’s oldest churches. In June, 1883 S.S. Graham of Springfield; W. E. Barker, Sheldon Boyer and A. Hicks of Cooks Mills, W. F. Sharpe and J. Whitacre met with 14 other people to adopt the Baptist Articles of Faith.
This meeting was held in the Sullivan Armory Hall upstairs in the building on the southeast corner of the square. In 1885 they occupied the hall over the Index store. The Rev. Barker was the first pastor, and the first Sunday School was organized in 1886.
By 1890 the members felt the need of a church home. A $1,000 loan was secured from the Baptist Home Missionary Society with the members and townspeople raising another $1500. The church was designed after the Cooks Mills church and was dedicated in 1890. It was located at the corner of Hamilton and Adams streets. A fire caused by lightning damaged the building, and the tower was removed some years later. The building was later sold and demolished. Read More
Photo by R.R. Best
Adam Collins (#18) makes a tackle.
•August 29, 2018•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports
The Sullivan/Okaw Valley football team was looking for its first win in nearly two years during its season opener at Nokomis/Ramsey Friday night.
SOV finished 3-6 in 2016 and winless in 2017, but despite playing a tough first three quarters, the Redskins could not overcome a strong 15-0 third quarter run in a 22-7 nonconference loss at Nokomis.
“Overall we did some good things but far too many mistakes on both sides of the ball,” Myers said. “On a positive note, our kids played their tails off. Would have been easy to let up once we got down two scores in the fourth, and they just kept battling. Couldn’t be more proud of their effort.”
Nokomis scored first on a 20-yard pass to Wayden Brown, who ran a cross-and-up route for the touchdown in the second quarter.
SOV answered later in the second quarter when sophomore Ian Plank caught a pass from junior Luke Harlin for a touchdown.
Plank kicked the extra point to tie the game at seven. Read More
•August 29, 2018•
By Jason Brown
NP Sports
The Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond volleyball team returned five seniors to this year’s squad, but the Knights are a relatively short team.
“It will be hard for us to overpower some teams with our small size,” said ALAH coach Emily Crossman. “We will have to use our block to funnel the ball, as the first line of defense, rather than depending on the stuff block. Our hitters have to be smart and play with a purpose.”
But one thing that Crossman can count on is that she has a smart team.
“We have a strategy and know where to place the ball,” she said. “The girls work together tremendously well and support one another in everything.”
For the last few weeks, the team has been trying to perform every play with a purpose. Read More
Senior Peace Meal
For additional information or for reservations, please call 1-800-543-1770
Monday, September 3 - Closed for Labor Day
Tuesday, September 4 - Country fried steak, mashed potatoes w/gravy, corn and lima beans, Texas toast, apricots
Wednesday, September 5 - Baked spaghetti, tossed salad w/dressing packet, chunky applesauce, whole grain wheat, oatmeal raisin cookie
Thursday, September 6 - Chicken parmesan, zucchini bake, cucumber and onion salad, dinner roll, cake with fruit
Friday, September 7 - Meatloaf, mashed potatoes w/gravy, Italian green beans, whole grain wheat, peaches
•August 29, 2018•
Secretary of State Jesse White, in cooperation with Sullivan Library, is offering drivers a chance to renew their driver’s license or vehicle registration renewal sticker, obtain a duplicate or corrected license, or obtain an Illinois identification card. White’s mobile unit will be available at Elizabeth Titus Memorial Library in Sullivan 10 a.m.-2 p.m. September 20. Read More
•August 29, 2018•
Arthur is rolling out the giant cheese wheel in celebration of the 46th annual Amish Country Cheese Festival Sept. 1, 2, and 3.
More than 700 pounds of cheese will be sliced and served free to festival goers during this Labor Day weekend event.
The festival begins with a 6-11 a.m. Saturday breakfast at the firehouse. Kids may enjoy Arties Party Zone including Bertrand’s Petting Zoo, Colonel Klink, inflatables, pony rides and bumper cars.
Cheesy Hollow features the car, truck and motorcycle show at noon Saturday.
It is a weekend filled with everything cheese with the Big Cheese Jackpot Drawing at 3 p.m. Monday.