Menus 7-26-2017

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Sullivan Pre-School Breakfast Monday, July 31 – Bagels, fruit juice, milk Tuesday, August 1 – Cereal, fruit juice, milk Wednesday, August 2 – Biscuits and gravy, fruit juice, milk Thursday, August 3 -Mixed fruit, fruit juice, milk Friday, August 4 – Granola bars, fruit juice, milk Sullivan Pre-School Lunch Monday, July 31 – Taco bake, lettuce salad, pears, milk Tuesday, August 1 – BBQ chicken sandwich, green beans, peaches, milk Wednesday, August 2 – Tater tots casserole, corn, mandarin oranges, dinner rolls, milk Thursday, August 3 – Chicken patty on bun, carrots, pineapple, milk Friday, August 4 – Pork fritters, mixed … Read More

Bethany City Wide Clean Up

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•July 26, 2017• Bethany will have city wide clean up on Saturday, July 29. There will be one dumpster located for metal and four dumpsters available for general refuse. Bethany citizens may bring items to the parking lot next to village hall from 8 a.m.- noon Saturday. Items not accepted for City Wide Clean Up include but are not limited to include tires of any kind or size; car parts or components of any kind; solvents such as paints, oils, fuels, and thinners; yard waste such as clippings, trimmings, leaves, limbs, and branches; batteries; fluorescent light tubes; concrete, bricks, and … Read More

Aquafest to be Held at Lake Shelbyville

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•July 26, 2017• Aquafest at Dam West Beach is no ordinary day at the beach. The Lake Shelbyville, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will host Aquafest noon-4 p.m. Saturday, August 5. Children and adults of ages all are welcome to attend. The beach fee will be waived for the entire day to allow all beach users a chance to come out and enjoy the free games and activities.  … Read More

Grease is the Word for Relay

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•July 26, 2017• Relay for Life is 6 p.m.-midnight Friday, August 11 on the Sullivan High School track. The theme  is Grease (the movie) so participants should feel free to come in costume. Luminaria are available, and order forms will be available at the local banks. Completed forms and payment may be mailed to Diane Waggoner at 48 Roley Est. in Sullivan. Luminaria at $10 per bag may be purchased in honor or memory of loved ones who have fought or are still fighting cancer. Proposed schedule: 5-6 p.m. Fire Department waterball contest 6-6:30 Opening Ceremonies (includes welcome, reading of mission statement, … Read More

Lake Land Spring Graduation

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•July 26, 2017• Area residents included in Lake Land College’s spring graduation are Allison Wheeler of Bethany, Management, Marketing, Professional Sales, Applied Science Management; Anita Hines, Nursing, Kelly Sidwell, Nursing and Cassi Upton, Physical Therapist Assistant, all of Gays; Sean Smith of Lovington, Pre-Engineering; Katie Bell, Agriculture, Sydney Boehm, Agriculture, Darrell Fox, Building Construction Technology and Monica Wiltermood, Accounting, all of Windsor. … Read More

Understanding Illinois: Someone Needs to Call Out Harmful Policy Making

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•July 26, 2017• By Jim Nowlan NP Guest Columnist This past week, Gov. Bruce Rauner stunned observers when he unceremoniously booted his veteran top staff out the door and turned management of state government over to an inexperienced team of policy wonks from the Illinois Policy Institute (IPI). The IPI is a decade-old, very conservative advocacy group; nothing wrong with that, of course. Yet it’s about time the IPI was called out for its hard-edged promotion of great sounding but wholly impracticable proposals, which is to my mind harmful to the policymaking process. The IPI was started a decade ago … Read More

Obituaries 7-26-2017: Bob Day

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Bob Day Robert Dean “Bob” Day, 41, of Hammond died at 8:28 p.m. Thursday, July 20, 2017 in Springfield Memorial Hospital. Mass of Christian Burial was held at 10 a.m. July 25 in St. Philomena Catholic Church in Monticello. Burial was in St. Isidore Cemetery in Bethany. Edwards Funeral Home in Arcola assisted with arrangements. … Read More

Sullivan Alumni Reunion Set

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•July 26, 2017• There will be plenty of hugs, smiles and storytelling September 23 when Sullivan High School alumni come together for their 48th annual reunion banquet. The Sullivan Alumni Association (SAA) has announced that this reunion banquet for all Sullivan High School alumni will be at the Sullivan VFW starting with a social hour at 4:30 p.m. and a dinner at 5:30. Access will be limited to ticket holders. A number of exciting developments will be announced this year including a new SAA Facebook page providing many new services including alumni access to Sullivan school activities available 24/7. The … Read More

Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is Amazing!

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•July 26, 2017• By Ellen Ferrera for the News Progress Joseph was not Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s first musical, but it was the first publicly performed. Webber devised a winning formula to showcase his prodigious knowledge of musical genres, and it was so successful that he used it again in other hits such as “Starlight Express” and “Cats”. In “Joseph” we have such styles as parodies of French ballads (“Those Canaan Days”), Elvis inspired rock and roll (“Song of the King”), country western (“One More Angel in Heaven”), 1920s Charleston (“Potiphar”), Calypso (“Benjamin Calypso”), jazz (“Joseph’s Dream”), and … Read More