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Sullivan High School Teacher Recipient of Grant

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Sullivan High School teacher Patricia King receives a grant from the Illinois Retired Teachers Association Foundation. Pictured from left to right are Jim Barr, Jane McKown, Patricia King, LaVonne Chaney, and Becky Lawson.

•September 28, 2022•
The Illinois Retired Teachers Association Foundation (IRTAF) awards $36,500 in grant money to several public school educators (Pre-K through 12) statewide. IRTAF is affiliated with the Illinois Retired Teachers Association, a lobbying group for retired educators, with a current membership of over 40,000. On September 20, 2022, Patricia King was awarded her IRTAF grant check. Read More

SHS Homecoming Court 2022

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SHS Homecoming Court
The 2022 Sullivan High School Homecoming Court Freshman Kate Bushue and James Feldkamp, Sophomores Emily Miller and Demarkus Moore, Juniors Taylor Lingafelter and Hayden Moody.

SHS Homecoming Queen and King Candidates 2022

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SHS Homecoming Queen and King Candidates
The Senior Queen Candidates for Sullivan High School are from the left front Madalyn Booker, Hali Mirocha, Sofia Nuzzo, Sydni Waidelich. King Candidates are Carter Addison, Paul Bates, Drake Poe, Ethan Schmohe. Coronation for the King and Queen will take place on Friday at halftime of the football game.

Windsor High School 2022 Homecoming Court

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Windsor High School 2022 Homecoming Court
Windsor High School has announced their 2022 Homecoming Court. Front Row (l to r): Queen candidates Gracie Brownlee, Kiersten Wheeler, and Reese Bennett, Junior attendant Aubree Brown, Sophomore attendant Avery Starwalt, and Freshman attendant Leah Kasey. Back row (l to r): King candidates Robbie McDaniel, Dylan Curry, and Rhett Rincker, Junior attendant Benji Folkers, Sophomore attendant Rylan Rincker, and Freshman attendant Heath Westendorf. Coronation will be at the High School gymnasium on Saturday, October 1 at 7:30 pm.

Obituaries 9-28-2022: Edwin Kuhns

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Edwin Kuhns

Edwin Kuhns, 67, of Sullivan, passed away peacefully in his home on Thursday, September 22, 2022, following a two-year cancer journey. Ed was born January 10, 1955, in Tuscola, the son of Menno and Alma (Kauffman) Kuhns. He married Leona Yoder June 26, 1982. Read More

Obituaries 9-28-2022: Tina Clark

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Tina Clark

Tina Clark, 42, of Hesperia, Mich., formerly of Bethany, passed away in her home with her fiancée by her side on August 23, 2022.
Tina was born May 11, 1980, in Decatur, a daughter of Roger and Maria (Apke) Clark. Tina moved with her dad to Michigan after she graduated from Bethany High School. Memorials may be made to State Bank of Arthur, attn: Maria Fulscher 26 N. Virginia Dr. Lovington, IL 61937. Read More

Obituaries 9-28-2022: Carroll “Sonny” Chaney

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Carroll “Sonny” Chaney

Carroll “Sonny” Chaney, 87, of Decatur, passed away Tuesday, September 20, 2022, at his home at Randall Residence in Decatur.
Funeral services were Monday, September 26, at Brintlinger and Earl Funeral Home in Decatur. Burial was in Marrowbone Township Cemetery in Bethany. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made in Sonny’s honor to American Legion in Bethany. Read More

Lutheran Womens Mission League Fall Rally

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•September 28, 2022•
Mary Hutchings and Marlene Wirth, both of Sullivan, attended the 77th Effingham/Shelby Zone Fall Rally of the LWML, at St. John’s Lutheran Church, Louisville, Illinois on September 21, 2022. The theme for the day was, “Light up the Word with Christ. Reverend Stephen Rutherford of the host church led the opening service and Reverend Martin Eden, pastor from Our Redeemer Lutheran Church of Quincy, Illinois, was the keynote speaker.
In 2020, Reverend Eden began corresponding with Reverend Peter Maganda who is the Dean of the Seminary in the Eastern Deanery for the Lutheran Church of Uganda. Area mission monies have since helped with food supplies for the people of this very poor eastern African nation. Local mission monies also helped to purchase two motorcycles so the vicars can travel to remote villages. Also, money has come to them to purchase six acres of land in Uganda to build a Lutheran church and a boarding school with dormitories. Read More