Photo courtesy Wurtsbaugh Photography
SHS Prom court
Sullivan High School prom was held Saturday, April 21 with Lizzie Green crowned queen and Andrew Matlock king. Pictured from left: Tanner Tarr, Zdenek Roza, Jordan Bassett. King Andrew Matlock, 2017 king Nicholas Carroll, 2017 queen Shelby Freeman, Queen Lizzie Green, Laine Cameron, Tate Fultz, Christina GIlbert, Montana Roberts, Blake Eller.
Photo furnished. Public Speaking Award Ethan Macklin, member of the OVHS FFA, competed in the District Public Speaking Contest held at Monticello High School. Five districts and 60 plus schools competed with Macklin earning a fourth place finish. Next up for the OV FFA is the Section Livestock Judging competition April 19.
•May 2, 2018•
The Moultrie County Republican Central Committee held its convention Wednesday April 18 at a dinner meeting at Sullivan Country Club.
The purpose of the convention is to reorganize the coming two year period including electing offices and voting for a representative to the Illinois State Republican Central Committee from the 15th Congressional District.
Officers elected were David McCabe, chairman; Keith Frantz, vice chairman; Roger Glazebrook, treasurer and Zach Helton, secretary. After a weighted vote of each elected Moultrie County Republican Precinct Committeeman, State Senator Chapin Rose was selected to be Moultrie County’s choice for State Republican Central Committeeman. Read More
•May 2, 2018•
Secretary of State Jesse White, in cooperation with Elizabeth Titus Memorial Library in Sullivan 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 the library, located at 2 West Water in Sullivan, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. May 17. Read More
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ALAH artwork at EIU
Natalia Beachy, Charlotte Donkers, Maria Garza, Annie Snyder, Andrea Witbeck and Rachel Yoder were honored at a reception April 7 at Eastern Illinois University. They each had artwork selected to be displayed in the 36th Children’s Art Exhibition at Tarble Arts Center. The show was open through April 15. Pictured with some of the works left to right: Annie Snyder, Natalia Beachy, Charlotte Donkers.
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4-H Shining Star Judges
More than 400 young people participated in Lake Land College’s Livestock Judging Contest March 17. Sixty-seven junior 4-H kids from Kentucky and Illinois along with numerous high school and FFA members participated in the event.
Five Moultrie County Shining Stars 4-H Club members participated. Gareth Coffer, Rhett Lehman, Addison Stollard, and Sarina Voegel competed as a team. Anyssa Coffer competed as an individual. Stollard earned fifth place over all in the sheep category. There was judging of cattle, goats, sheep, and swine. Reported by Gareth Coffer, Club Reporter
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HTA Student of the Quarter
Anthony Weekly, a junior at OVHS, was recently named Heartland Tech Academy student of the quarter. Weekly is a first year student in the welding program.
•May 2, 2018•
The Sullivan girls’ track and field team finished in 13th place with 12 points at the 20-team Monticello Girls’ Invite Friday and second with 60 points in a Pana triangular last Tuesday.
At Monticello, Esther Miller placed second in the 400-meter dash with a time of 1:04.05. Miller teamed up with Zoe Walton, Haley Rose and Laine Cameron to finish fourth in the 1,600-meter relay with a time of 4:24.26.
In the Pana meet, Emily White won the high jump at 4 feet 10 inches, and Miller won the triple jump at 32 feet 8.5 inches. Read More
•May 2, 2018•
SBL Lincolnland Home Care and Lincolnland Hospice will conduct a free blood pressure clinic from 8:30 to 9 a.m. Thursday, May 17 in the Senior Center in Sullivan. For more information, call Lincolnland Home Care at 1-800-879-3212.
SBL Lincolnland Home Care, Lincolnland Hospice and Lincolnland Home Medical will sponsor bingo from 9-10 a.m. following the blood pressure clinic.
•May 2, 2018•
By Chuck Sweeny
Of the Rockford Register Star
Victory Bell can still remember the night when he boarded the Illinois Central Railroad’s City of New Orleans in Durant, Mississippi, bound for Chicago, then changing trains and ending up in Rockford.
It was 1945, at the height of the Jim Crow apartheid in Dixie that purposely kept blacks poor with few rights. Bell, his mother and siblings were headed north to join his father, who had already moved north to get a factory job.
“We had been sharecroppers,” the 83-year old Bell remembers working near Durant, 60 miles north of Jackson. The family had eked out a living, but opportunities for advancement just were not there for black folks.
“I remember it was in the middle of the night when we boarded the train. We had to sit in the black section. When we got to Illinois, the conductor said we could sit anywhere we liked on the train,” Bell said, “and we no longer had to say ‘sir ‘or ‘ma’am’ to white people, which was new to us.”
His uncle and father had come to Rockford in 1943 and 1944 to get jobs that paid better than sharecropping. Read More