Senior Peace Meal
For additional information or for reservations, please call 1-800-543-1770
Monday, June 11 - Pepper beef over brown rice, lima beans, warm cinnamon baked apples, whole grain wheat (1), fresh orange
Tuesday, June 12 - Swedish meatballs, mashed potatoes, spinach, whole grain wheat (1), banana pudding w/fresh bananas
Wednesday, June 13 - Focaccia crusted chicken breasts, potato casserole, Italian green beans, tropical fruit, dinner roll, cookie
Thursday, June 14 - Chili mac w/beans, corn, dinner roll, peach caramel oat crisp
Friday, June 15 - Ham loaf, frosted sweet potatoes, seasoned peas, rye (2), dreamsicle gelatin
Category Archives: News Briefs
SHS Student Council Officers Elected
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SHS Student Council Officers Elected
Sullivan High School Student Council recently elected their 2018-2019 officers. Front Row: Madalyne McPheeters, vice president; Natalie Drury, reporter; Carley Towle, secretary. Back row: Dalton Rogers, treasurer; Cullen Dyer, president; Spencer Johnson, sergeant-at-arms. These students will lead the council over the following year in planning the 2018 homecoming events as well as several other projects including service projects, fun nights, district and state events.
Lovington Eighth Grade Promotion
•June 6, 2018•
The Lovington Eighth Grade Class Promotion was held at 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 22 in the Lovington Grade School Gym.
Thirty-one students were promoted to high school including Maxwell J. Allen, Jacob Dylan Bettinger, D.J. Carroll, Thomas Lee Conour III, Kaitlyn E. Curran, Quentin Joseph Day, Cassandra Diener, Reginald Blake Edmonds, Mackenzie Lee Erixon, Brady Eugene Foster, Zarek Michael Fultz, Delaney Gillis, Joshua David Gingerich , Layna Rose Kapp, Zach Joseph Massie, Gavin Drake Mechling, Joseph Mitchell, Elijiah Thomas Edward Parker, Hailey Lynn Peeler, Michaela Laine Powell, Carter James Pratt, Jordan Lynne Pratt, Mallory Ann Schmitt, Wayne William Allen Tedrick, Elizabeth Claire Tighe, Jacob Matthew Vitale, Trey Allen Wardrip, Mya Elizabeth Wey, Lakrista Nicole Witt, Michael James Alan Witt, Kaitlyn Marie Zander. Read More
Farmers Market Kick Off and Strawberry Shortcake in Strasburg
•May 30, 2018•
The Strasburg Community Action Network (SCAN) is sponsoring the Strasburg Farmers Market Kick Off and Strawberry Shortcake Night 4:30-6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 31 in the Strasburg Community Center. Get tips from a Master Gardener who will talk about gardening and flower planting at 5 p.m.
Visit the Farmers Market vendors and stay to eat strawberry shortcake with fresh picked locally grown strawberries, porkburgers and hot dogs while supplies last. Read More
Albert Beveridge: Sullivan’s Most Successful Public Figure
•May 30, 2018•
The most successful public figure ever to grow up in Sullivan and graduate from its schools was Albert J. Beveridge. He served two terms in the United States Senate and became a leading national figure in the Republican Party and in the American “progressive” movement in the early 20th century.
After his career in politics came to an end, he wrote highly-regarded biographies of two of the great men in American history: Chief Justice John Marshall, and Abraham Lincoln.
Beveridge achieved this success only after overcoming youthful poverty and years of unremitting physical labor comparable to the experiences of young Abe Lincoln. Yet Lincoln was and remains a subject of public veneration while Beveridge is barely remembered in his original hometown. Then again — Albert didn’t write some of the greatest prose in the English language, didn’t win a war or save the union, and didn’t die a martyr. Also, he didn’t have Lincoln’s sense of humor. And he never won a popular election. Perhaps the two are related.
Albert Jeremiah Beveridge was born October 6, 1862, near Sugar Tree Ridge in Highland County, Ohio. His father, Thomas Henry Beveridge, was in the Ohio Volunteers at the time, fighting Confederates. Thomas’ first wife had died, leaving him eight children, and in early January 1862 he had married a 37-year old widow, Frances Doyle. Albert was the only child of that second marriage. Read More
Remember When? 5-30-2018
25 Years Ago This Week
Members of Sullivan High School’s Project Graduation program washed cars Saturday at Gasland. They raised $220 towards the graduation party that will be held at the Sullivan County Club. Car washers included Rhonda Schlernitzauer, Jennifer Young, Melissa Wheeler, Stephanie Moran and Krystal Horsman.
Harold White of Lovington was elected president of the newly formed Tri-County EMT Association. Other officers elected by the 23 members are Curt Vulgamott of Cerro Gordo vice president, and Karen Good of Arthur will be secretary. The purpose of the association is to organize volunteer ambulance services in Moultrie, Douglas and Piatt counties into a coordinated, efficient mutual aid response system.
Seven year old Mike Waseen, a first grade student of Julie Russell at Bethany Elementaty School, has been selected to represent Bethany in the Illinois 19th Statewide Young Author’s Conference. At the conference Waseen will share his award winning manuscript, “Mike-in-ator Drains the Earth’s Pollution” and will be treated to lunch. Read More
Mobile SS Unit Comes to Library
•May 30, 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 the Sullivan Library, located at 2 West Water in Sullivan, on June 21 from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Read More
Thinking About Health: Administration’s Plan for Drug Pricing Preserves Big-Picture Status Quo
•May 30, 2018•
By Trudy Lieberman,
Rural Health News Service
The headline in the Wall Street Journal seemed to sum up the president’s plans for dealing with America’s high drug prices. “Drug Industry Relieved By Price Proposal,” it read and then described the president’s blueprint as falling short of “more far-reaching ideas.” Since the plan contained no major threat to the status quo, it’s no wonder it boosted pharmaceutical stocks.
In other words, the plan continued the current system under which the government does not negotiate the prices it pays for medicines under the Medicare program, a far-reaching solution that I’ve discussed before in this space. The 2003 law that gave seniors a drug benefit under Medicare prohibited such negotiations, which pharmaceutical manufacturers loudly and forcefully opposed. They feared that allowing the government to use its muscle to bargain over drug prices might slow their escalating increases.
Drug makers weren’t about to let that happen, and the supporters of the law were so eager for a guaranteed benefit, they had little bargaining power to push back. Read More
ISP To Conduct Occupant Restraint Enforcement Patrols
•May 30, 2018•
Illinois State Police (ISP) District 10 Commander, Captain Louis Kink, announces the ISP will conduct an Occupant Restraint Enforcement Patrol (OREP) in Champaign County during June. OREPs allow the ISP to focus on safety belt and child safety seat laws. Illinois law requires all vehicle passengers (front and back) to be buckled up! Read More
Crossing Intersections Before the Era of Crossing Guards
Oh Brother
•May 23, 2018•
It was crossing guard appreciation day this week, and we salute all those who help school children safely cross busy streets on their way to and from school.
Wearing a professional crossing guard vest and walking bravely into an intersection with the hand held stop I recently observed a crossing guard escorting children across the Rte32/Hwy 121 intersection.
And I fondly recalled my first calling as a Patrol Boy.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s McKinley School used fifth and sixth graders as crossing guards. From my earliest days crossing the streets on my way to and from school I longed for the power to stop traffic like the “older” patrol boys did.
Fifth and sixth grade students who volunteered as Patrol Boys (forgive the political incorrectness of the time but there were no Patrol Girls) had to meet with the patrol captain before school to pick up “Stop” flags mounted on eight foot long cane poles, receive street crossing assignments and go to our assigned corners. Read More