Ruth E. Merold Ruth E. Merold, 76, of Sullivan died at 1:40 p.m. Wednesday July 30 in Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday in McMullin-Young Funeral Home in Sullivan will visitation 5-7 p.m. Sunday. Burial will be in Marrowbone Township Cemetery in Bethany. … Read More
July 30, 2014 By Gerald Tilley Social Security Dist. Manager Decatur Medicare went into effect 48 years ago on July 1, 1966. Earlier that same year, Medicare workers went door to door trying to get seniors to sign up. Medicare was not the cornerstone then that it is today, and people did not know whether it was going to work for the long haul. Now, nearly half a century later, Medicare remains one of the most popular government programs in the nation. We can’t see the future, but one thing’s for sure: Medicare is here to stay. Medicare provides health … Read More
July 30, 2014 Box-alarm fire devastates local restaurant by Keith Stewart keith@newsprogress.com A blaze that lasted nearly two hours ravaged a restaurant in Sullivan Tuesday morning. The Red Apple Family Restaurant caught fire shortly before 8:30 a.m. Tuesday according to Sullivan fire captain Chris Wright. Emergency personnel were paged out at 8:23 a.m. with the first fire company arriving at 8:25 a.m. Initial observations by emergency personnel included heavy dark smoke and fire coming out the back of the restaurant. The first company entered the building only to discover zero visibility and that the fire was actually located above them … Read More
July 30, 2014 Residents living in and around the Sullivan community may be screened to reduce their risk of having a stroke or bone fracture. First United Methodist Church at 216 W. Jefferson St. in Sullivan will host Life Line Screening August 7. Four key points every person needs to know: • Stroke is the third leading cause of death and a leading cause of permanent disability • 80% of stroke victims had no apparent warning signs prior to their stroke … Read More
July 30, 2014 “Legally Blonde” to close out 2014 summer season By Dan Hagen NP Theatre Critic Willowy and witty, pretty and poised, Sarah Ledtke never makes a false step as the star of the Little Theatre’s final show of its 2014 summer season, “Legally Blonde.” As Elle Woods, Malibu boy-chaser turned Harvard Law ace, she brings the same qualities of likability, whimsy and stage presence to the role as Reese Witherspoon did in the original hit film, although not at all in the same way. Ledtke’s confident gestures easily arrest the audience’s attention. With empathy, without preaching, Ledtke sells … Read More
Mary Miller Funeral services for Mary M. Miller, 86, of Sullivan were held at 9 a.m. Sunday in the Omer Kuhns residence in Sullivan. Burial was in Yoder Cemetery in Arthur. Arrangements were by McMullin-Young Funeral Home in Sullivan. … Read More
Virginia Reno Virginia Delta Wallace Reno, 83, of Mesquite, Tex. passed away July 26 in Mesquite surrounded by her loving family. She was born Nov. 11, 1930 in Carbondale to Herman Wallace and Mattie Scudmore Wallace. … Read More
July 30, 2014 Rita Seelow and Noelle Yeakel of the Theta Psi Chapter of Psi Iota Xi in Bethany attended the Psi Iota Xi National Convention in Fort Wayne, Ind., June 21-22. Psi Iota Xi meets annually to vote on charitable contributions to be distributed nationally. Two years ago Psi Iota Xi established a new long term project that will result in donations of more than $100,000 to the Intensive Stuttering Clinic at the University of Toledo. The last two long term projects included an endowed professorship at Indiana University School of Medicine/Riley Hospital and cleft palate research at the … Read More
July 30, 2014 According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers the Lake Shelbyville tree stand policy for this season will remain the same as it was last season. The policy allows hunters to leave one seasonal tree stand up for the duration of the archery season. Seasonal tree stands may be put up two weeks prior to the beginning of archery season. Opening day is October 1. Tree stands must be taken down two weeks after archery season ends on Jan.18. A roving tree stand may be left up for a period not to exceed 72 hours – the … Read More
July 30, 2014 ALAH High School soccer will have a team meeting for all high school soccer players and parents at the Lovington Grade School soccer fields at 6:30 p.m. July 31. … Read More