Menu 11-27-2019

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Senior Peace Meal For additional information or for reservations, please call 1-800-543-1770 Monday, December 2 – Beef sandwich, rosemary roasted potatoes, broccoli, bun, strawberry oatmeal bar Tuesday, December 3 – Beef stew w/vegetables, creamy cole slaw, dinner roll, warm fruit crisp Wednesday, December 4 – Shepherd’s pie, Harvard beets, fresh fruit, biscuit, graham crackers Thursday, December 5 – Ham and beans, copper carrots, cornbread, pineapple pistachio dessert Friday, December 6 – Meatloaf, mashed potatoes w/gravy, tomatoes and zucchini, dinner roll, pumpkin pie … Read More

Night Christmas Parade Dec. 13

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•November 27, 2019• The Sullivan Christmas Parade is at night this year with coordinator Jeri Davis urging participants to light up Sullivan on Friday, Dec. 13. Organizations or individuals who are up to the challenge of creating a spectacular entry may contact Davis at 217/273-9456. Entries should gather at 4:30 p.m. Dec. 13 in the Sullivan High School parking lot. Parade will kick off at 6:00 p.m. Davis explained a three judge panel with award prizes for the Best Use of Red and Green; People Choice and Judges Choice. The Christmas parade grand marshal will be escorted in the parade … Read More

Obituaries 11-27-2019: Theresa Ann Davis

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Theresa Ann Davis Theresa Ann Davis, 62, of Lovington, passed away at 8:55 p.m. Tuesday, November 19, 2019, at Eastview Terrace, Sullivan. Funeral services were held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, November 23, 2019, at McMullin-Young Funeral Home, Lovington. Visitation was an hour prior to the services Saturday at the funeral home. Burial was in Keller Cemetery, Lovington. Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America: 322 Eighth Avenue, 16th Floor, New York, NY 10001 … Read More

All Conference Honors for ALAH Players

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•November 27, 2019• By Jason Brown NP Sports Editor The Lincoln Prairie Conference announced all-conference team honors this past week, including several Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond players. Lucas Otto earned first-team honors as a linebacker and offensive line. … Read More

Sullivan Girls Team Sweeps Maroa Forsyth Tip Off Classic

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•November 27, 2019• By Jason Brown NP Sports Editor To win another regional championship and make a deep run into the IHSA playoffs, Sullivan girls’ basketball coach Sheri McCain has her players focused on each step of the process during the long season. The first step for the regular season schedule was to win the 2nd Annual Maroa-Forsyth Tip-off Classic by sweeping all three games. Sullivan did just that. The Redskins won their first game of the season 35-14 against host Maroa-Forsyth. … Read More

Ideas for Curbing Corruption in Illinois, Over Time; or, How to Become Iowans

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•November 27, 2019• By Jim Nowlan NP Guest Columnist As readers might surmise from reading the news about Illinois, our state is arguably embedded in a political culture (patterns of behavior) of corruption (unearned personal gain at public expense). This doesn’t mean that everyone in the Prairie State is corrupt, but that there is a learned disposition among too many of us that if we have a chance to take advantage of government, we might as well do so, as everyone else would do so in the same situation. I have some ideas that could transform our disposition, but as … Read More