•August 5, 2020•
The Elizabeth Titus Memorial Library Offers Tutoring services for all ages. Two librarians specialize in math. We can also help improve reading comprehension and speed. Reading is a skill that can be developed and will help improve all of your student’s grades.
Story time at the park or online takes place every Wednesday in August at 10 a.m.
The DMV will be at the library starting in September!

•August 5, 2020•
Paige McLaughlin of Sullivan was named to the Dean’s List for the spring semester of the 2019-20 academic year at Illinois Wesleyan University. McLaughlin is a first-year majoring in English - Writing.
McLaughlin was among 831 students from 29 states and 16 countries named to the Spring 2020 Dean’s List. Read More

•August 5, 2020•
Jim Baumann

Hi, my name is Jim, and I’m a prescriptivist.
There ought to be a self-help organization for those of us who cling desperately to the language that was beaten into us — in some cases — as children.
The way they tell it, chums who attended parochial schools had to endure withering glances and the threat of rapped knuckles, while I lived in fear only of B’s at my public schools.
For whatever reason, they and I still find it hard to let go of the conventions of our youth and allow English some breathing room. Many of us look with suspicion upon new words and syntax and tend to shun them.
Hey, change is hard.
Compared to Latin, English is a teenager. It grows and changes every day. Say you’re 70 and your grandson is 15. Should it be so strange that you speak a different language when he was taught an updated — note I didn’t write “upgraded” — version of English a half century after you? Read More

Senior Peace Meal

For additional information or for reservations, please call 1-800-543-1770

August 3 - Spaghetti w/Meat Sauce, Herbed Peas, Fruit Juice, Bread Stick, Brownie Bites
August 4 - Roasted Pork Loin, Zucchini Bake, Broccoli/Cauliflower, Whole Grain Wheat (1), Hawaiian Salad
August 5 - Chicken Enchiladas, Vegetable Rice Pilaf, Seasoned Green Beans, Whole Grain Wheat (1), Cantaloupe
August 6 - Hamloaf or Meatloaf, Mashed Potatoes w/Gravy, Corn and Lima Beans, Dinner Roll, Dreamsicle Gelatin
August 7 - Steak Burger, Lettuce and Tomato Slices, Kidney Bean Salad, Bun, Peaches

•July 29, 2020•
Richard Hentschel
For the News Progress

When it finally rains after a dry spell, it is such a relief and gives gardeners a few days off before the watering patrol kicks in again. Our plants get the dust and dirt washed off, foliage perks up, and if the flowers were on the dry side, foliage colors return to normal.
More than just our flowers benefit. Every tree, shrub, evergreen, groundcover and the lawn are happier. The vegetable garden is going to be a big benefactor of that natural rain too. Once vegetables that produce a flower, then a fruit or pod, realize there is a good amount of soil moisture available, those fruits and pods become more uniform in size and develop quickly. Read More