Businesses To Participate In Small Business Saturday

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•November 25, 2020• By Crystal Reed NP Writer Small Business Saturday is a shopping holiday held during the Saturday after Thanksgiving. American Express created the event during the recession in 2010 to encourage people to shop small and bring more holiday shopping to small businesses. One local business that is participating is Buxton’s Garden and Flower Shop located on 121 between Bethany and Sullivan. They started as a small roadside stand selling sweetcorn out of the back of a pick-up truck and have grown into a year round garden center. Buxton’s will have their Christmas décor out in the shop … Read More

City Council Hears About Chamber’s of Commerce’s Christmas Plans

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•November 25, 2020• by Crystal Reed NP Writer During Monday evening’s Sullivan City Council meeting the council heard about the plan that the Sullivan Chamber of Commerce has for the holiday season. Director of Sullivan Chamber of Commerce and Economic Development Laurrie Minor told the council that the chamber has an effort to try and provide every long term care resident in Sullivan a plant. They are $15 and the chamber only needs 86 more donations to make this effort possible. Another event that they are doing is a reverse lighted parade. Instead of people lining up along the parade … Read More

Food Availability Not in Question

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•November 25, 2020• By Illinois Farm Bureau With concerns resurfacing over possible food shortages, a study from a national farm group found the supply chain is as resilient as ever – and it’s showing up in the form of lower prices for many traditional Thanksgiving dinner ingredients. This year, the American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual Thanksgiving dinner survey calculated the average cost of a traditional Thanksgiving meal for 10 people at $46.90. That’s less than $5 per person and down 4 percent from last year. “The average cost of this year’s Thanksgiving dinner is the lowest since 2010,” said AFBF … Read More

Menu 11-25-2020

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Senior Peace Meal For additional information or for reservations, please call 1-800-543-1770 Nov. 30 – Sausage in Gravy, Mini Potato Bakers, Fruit Juice, Biscuit, Warm Cinnamon Buttered Apples Dec. 1 – Cheese tortellini Alfredo, Peas, Kidney Bean Salad, Peanut Butter Cup, Whole Grain Wheat (1), Warm Fruit Cobbler Dec. 2 – Saucy Cabbage Rolls, Corn, Broccoli, Whole Grain Wheat (1), Mandarin Oranges Dec. 3 – Fried Chicken, Mashed Potatoes w/Gravy, Italian Green Beans, Texas Toast, Cranapple Salad Dec. 4 – Goulash with Beans, Seasoned Greens, Graham Crackers, Dinner Roll, Fresh Fruit … Read More

Illini Prairie CEO Selling Face Masks For Class Project

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•November 25, 2020• by Crystal Reed NP Writer The Illini Prairie CEO class is selling face masks with proceeds to benefit their next project in the spring, their individual businesses. There are 14 students in the class and in order to have enough money for all of the students to start up a small business of their own, they need to have a way to obtain seed money for each of them. According to Illini Prairie CEO student Alexa Hauser, the group will be selling six face masks, four of those will be catering to the four representing communities that … Read More

Shriver Makes All-Area Honorable Mention Team

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•November 18, 2020• The News Gazette announced all-area girls’ golf teams this past week. One local athlete received honors. Sullivan junior golfer Alyssa Shriver made the all-area honorable mention team. Shriver was awarded the Most Valuable Player at the Redskins’ recent girls’ golf banquet. Shriver helped lead the Sullivan girls’ golf team to a fourth-place finish with a team score of 487 in the Central Illinois Conference meet this season. She earned all-conference honors by finishing in second place with a score of 96. … Read More

Layton Hall Signs With Indiana State

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•November 18, 2020• by Jason Brown NP Sports Saturday, Oct. 31, Layton Hall competed the IHSA Class 1A Cross Country Sectional at Hickory Point Golf Course to officially end his high school cross country running career. The senior won the meet with a time of 15:27.6. The ALAH Knight also competed in the unsanctioned ShaZam Cross Country Club Championships at the Three Sisters Park in Chillicothe Friday, Nov. 6. Hall ran a 15:58.89 for fifth place. The ALAH boys’ team, which ran under the name 4 City Striders, placed second with 102 points behind the Harvest Christian Academy team (90 … Read More

Superintendent-y Stuff: A Walk with Mr. Walk

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•November 18, 2020• By Ted Walk Students in Sullivan Schools showed their desire to remain competitive regardless of challenges faced this year. Many students in both the middle school and high school participated in fall sports. The middle school boys’ baseball team completed their first season under a new coaching staff and made fundamental improvement throughout the season laying the foundation for future successful seasons. … Read More