Senior Peace Meal
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Monday, January 20 - Beef and noodles, mashed potatoes, brussels sprouts, whole grain wheat (1), apricots
Tuesday, January 21 - Pork chop sandwich, buttered baby baker potatoes, Mexi corn & lima beans, bun, fruit juice
Wednesday, January 22 - Swissed beef patties w/tomato, onion, celery, green pepper, creamy coleslaw, dinner roll, warm fruit crisp
Thursday, January 23 - Breakfast casserole, warm rosy applesauce, fruit juice, cinnamon roll, cranberries
Friday, January 24 - Chicken parmesan, venetian blend vegetables, potato casserole, dinner roll, mandarin oranges

•January 15, 2020•
By Jim Nowlan
NP Guest Columnist

Remember as a teen when you devised a strategy to convince your old man to let you have the family car to go on a date Saturday night? You we’re lobbying, trying to get what you wanted. We’re all lobbyists.
In big cities, state capitols, and D.C., groups you and I belong to pay money to specialists (lobbyists) to push for what they want. Society looks down on lobbyists, as likely corrupt somehow. It isn’t the lobbying that is corrupt; it’s the money that is a commodity used by groups and their lobbyists that can be corrupting. The temptation of money can induce people to trade something, possibly even a vote, for money. Money is power and, as Lord Acton famously suggested, power ultimately corrupts.
At present in Illinois, the federal government is investigating a number of Illinois politicians for possibly making unearned personal gain at public expense. The focus is on public electric utility ComEd. House Speaker Mike Madigan held the giant electric utility in a political vice grip at a period the company was desperate to save its nuclear plants and increase consumer rates. Read More

•January 15, 2020•
The Lovington Village Board met in special session Jan, 6, 2020 as well during the regular meeting Dec. 9, 2019.
Under special projects trustee Brenda Wood noted a family from the Amish community is interested in starting a grocery store in Lovington. She explained if the village has a building available they would be interested in discussing the prospects. Read More