The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL back issues from March 2006:
Fairbury man faces Heroin charge; police say drug a growing problem
Mar 01, 2006; ... PONTIAC - A Fairbury man is charged with possessing the same drugthat contributed to the death of his brother last year. Casey L. Hammond, 23, of Fairbury, is facing felony charges ofunlawful possession of heroin and misdemeanor charges of possessing ahypodermic syringe, a pipe and ...
Clintons Cooper all-Okaw Valley
Mar 01, 2006 ... WARRENSBURG - Clinton High School girls basketball standout AshleyCooper has been named a first-team Okaw Valley Conference all-star invoting by the league ...
Dilligard, Plank net Valley honors Shockers' Miller league's top player
Mar 01, 2006; ... NORMAL --The Illinois State duo of Greg Dilligard and Neil Plankgained Missouri Valley Conference basketball honors Tuesday from thecoaches and media who cover the league. Dilligard, a 6-foot-8 junior forward, was named to the mostimproved team in a vote by the 10 sportswriters who ...
Four from area unanimous all-Sangamon Valley picks
Mar 01, 2006 ... PAXTON - LeRoys Sam Poppe and Fishers Jessi Beachey were unanimousWest Division selections, and Heidi McKean and Page Poppie wereunanimous East Division picks on the all-Sangamon Valley Conferencegirls basketball teams announced Tuesday. Poppe and Beachey were joined on the West ...
Counties may be able to ban smoking Illinois Senate OKs legislation
Mar 01, 2006; ... SPRINGFIELD - Anti-smoking groups saw a victory Tuesday whenlegislation giving counties the power to regulate smoking in publicplaces was approved by the Illinois Senate. The proposal comes just six months after anti-smoking groups won alengthy battle in the General Assembly to ...
Central Catholic sectional ticketson sale today
Mar 01, 2006 ... BLOOMINGTON - Advance tickets for the Central Catholic Schoolbasketball teams 7:30 p.m. Fieldcrest Class A Sectional semifinalgame against Hartsburg-Emden today will be on sale at the schooluntil noon. All tickets ...
Wildenradt sends ISU to fourth place
Mar 01, 2006 ... Senior Kris Wildenradt fired a 3-under-par 69 to tie teammate MattMiller for 10th place and lead the Illinois State golf team to afourth-place finish Tuesday in the Naples Intercollegiate at theHammock Bay Golf and Country Club in Naples, Fla. Miller, who finished with a 74, and ...
Amtrak advocates seek more state funds
Mar 01, 2006; ... SPRINGFIELD - More people would ride Amtrak in Illinois if thestate would spend an additional $18 million to increase the number oftrains rolling between Chicago, St. Louis, Carbondale and Quincy,supporters of rail travel said Tuesday. In testimony to a House committee, advocates ...
Top CCIW honor pretty cool for IWUs Harnisch
Mar 01, 2006; ... BLOOMINGTON - Illinois Wesleyan senior Heidi Harnisch had set agoal of being a first-team all-College Conference of Illinois andWisconsin basketball player. The leagues coaches did Harnisch one better by naming her theleagues Player of the Year. "My first thought was holy ...
LaGrone jury gains two more
Mar 01, 2006; ... BLOOMINGTON - A nurse and a former soldier joined six other jurorsTuesday in the murder trial of Maurice LaGrone Jr. LaGrone, 30, and Amanda Hamm, 29, each face nine counts of first-degree murder in the September 2003 drowning deaths of Hamms threechildren. LaGrone and Hamm, who ...
Daily digest
Mar 01, 2006 ... News in brief 2 principals named for Clinton schools CLINTON - Two new principals were hired recently to take overresponsibilities for two retirees in Clinton schools next year. Clinton Junior High School will be supervised by John Pine nextfall. Pine will replace Larry ...
Sky's the limit products made from soybeans
Mar 01, 2006; ... Soybeans are everywhere you look these days. Theyre in everythingfrom tractors to transformer fluids to products that cleancontaminated groundwater. In fact, about 81.8 million bushels of soybeans - about a fourthof the nations crop - got made into soy-based products last year ....
Amelianovich, Dauksas earn first-team nods
Mar 01, 2006; ... BLOOMINGTON - Illinois Wesleyan basketball players KeelanAmelianovich, Adam Dauksas and Zach Freeman have been recognized asamong the best in the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsinagain. Amelianovich was picked to the all-CCIW first team for the thirdstraight year ...
Route 66 featured as a to 10 road trip
Mar 01, 2006; ... PONTIAC - The road trip has been deemed the most American form oftravel and one of the top 10 trips in the world runs right throughCentral Illinois. The Lonely Planet, which publishes guidebooks for independenttravelers, named Route 66 as one of the top 10 road trips in theworld ....
Defense, Doggett lead CPCI into title game
Mar 01, 2006 ... WATSEKA - A dominating CPCI defense and a dominant Patrick Doggettproved too much for the Tolono Unity High School basketball teamTuesday night. Doggett poured in a game-high 25 points, and the No. 12-rankedTimberwolves rolled to a 63-37 victory in the semifinals of theWatseka ...
Lincoln surge eliminates worries, University High Pioneers hang tough in Class AA tourney debut
Mar 01, 2006; ... LINCOLN - Neil Alexander didnt get worried when the lead was downto 29-25 early in the third quarter Tuesday night. The Lincoln High School basketball coach began chewing hisfingernails long before that. Alexander was nervous a couple weeksago when he saw the Railsplitters would ...
ARTS IN BRIEF
Mar 01, 2006 ... MUSIC Youth Symphony BLOOMINGTON - The Bloomington-Normal Youth Symphony has announcedthe winners of its annual Howard H. Rye Young Artist SoloCompetition. Co-winners of the first-place scholarship are violinist KaylaComerford, a senior at University High School, and ...
GOVERNMENT GLANCE
Mar 01, 2006 ... FARMER CITY City hears ambulancerates will go up 25% Meeting: City Council When: Feb. 20 Key action Heard ambulance rates will go up about 25 percenteffective immediately, the first increase the department has seen inthe last six years. The revised fee schedule ...
Pelton powers Saints
Mar 02, 2006; ... MINONK - No one has bigger shoulders on Central Catholic HighSchools basketball team than 6-foot-3, 280-pound Josh Brent. Hartsburg-Emden might challenge that after watching Matt PeltonWednesday night. When Brent was helped off the court with a sprained ankle in thefirst ...
Customer retention tops list Chicago author gives her ideas for success
Mar 02, 2006; ... BLOOMINGTON - In a world of constant business change, one thingremains the same - the value of the customer. That was one of several business principles for success outlinedby Chicago author Christine Corelli at the McLean County Chamber ofCommerce Business Showcase Wednesday at ...
Harper rescues NCHS Basket at :03 sends Ironmen into title game
Mar 02, 2006; ... NORMAL - With the host Ironmen looking at a quick exit from thepostseason, senior guard Sheldon Harper took matters into his ownhands. "The seniors had to step up this time, and thats what happened,"Harper said. Harper scored in the lane off a nice feed from junior ...
Don, Darren, Dennis: 3 peas in a TV pod
Mar 02, 2006; ... The ghoulish-but-true "trinity rule" of the celebrity death gamewas jack-hammered home with a vengeance this past week. And it was pounded into place with such impossible 3-D symmetrythat it almost played like a sick joke. Only we werent laughing. Except, that is, when we ...
GO PLAY
Mar 02, 2006 ... TRIATHLON July event at Evergreen Lake The Bloomington-Normal Area Sports Commission will hold theinaugural Evergreen Lake International Triathlon July 22 at ComlaraCounty Park. It will feature a 1.5K swim, 40K bike ride and 10K run. The triathlon will start with a ...
Mahomet-Seymour falls short
Mar 02, 2006 ... CHAMPAIGN - Sophomore Mikel Leshoure scored 21 points and MikeLocksley added 20 to lead Champaign Centennial High Schoolsbasketball team past Mahomet-Seymour, 60-58, Wednesday night in thesemifinals of the Champaign Central Class AA Regional. Seventh-seeded Mahomet-Seymour was led ...
Jones: Rate freeze stupid Senate president says let ICC decide
Mar 02, 2006; ... SPRINGFIELD - Senate President Emil Jones scolded his counterpartsin the House Wednesday, calling their support of extending a freezeon residential electric rates "stupid." The Chicago Democrat said members of the General Assembly shouldnot interfere with current state law ...
Cirone scores 27 as Redbirds Win third inrow
Mar 02, 2006; ... EVANSVILLE, Ind. - Freshman Kristi Cirone scored 17 of her career-high tying 27 points in the first half Wednesday night to leadIllinois State to a 79-66 win over Evansville in a Missouri ValleyConference womens basketball game at Roberts Stadium. The Redbirds (12-14, 7-10 in the ...
New and improved Wildcats move on
Mar 02, 2006; ... LINCOLN - Normal West High School welcomed the "new season,"partly because the old one had not been particularly kind to theWildcats. Having dropped seven of its final nine regular-season games, Westlooked like a new basketball team Wednesday in a 56-41 upset ofOttawa at the ...
NCHS grad Freeman moving up IWU ranks
Mar 02, 2006; ... BLOOMINGTON - Zach Freeman is a junior member of the IllinoisWesleyan basketball team in academic standing only. Although he arrived at IWU one year after the Titans acclaimedsenior class, Freeman has been a key contributor to three straightNCAA Division III Tournament teams since ...
Lamb comes in, but lion of winter hasnt strayed far
Mar 02, 2006; ... BLOOMINGTON - Spring-like temperatures helped bring March in likea lamb Wednesday. But dont put away your winter coat just yet. Its Illinois, and theweather is going to change. "A front is coming in late tonight (Wednesday), and temperaturesare going to plunge to normal ...
Amelianovich honored off the court, as well
Mar 02, 2006; ... BLOOMINGTON - Keelan Amelianovich rarely misses an opportunity towork on his jump shot. Yet on his way to 18.2 points per game and a third consecutiveberth on the all-College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin team,the Illinois Wesleyan senior leaves ample time for ...
ISU seeks fresh start in tourney Redbirdslikely to face Evansville without Fortes
Mar 02, 2006; ... ST. LOUIS - It may have been the low-water mark of the season forIllinois States basketball team when the Redbirds suffered a 54-47loss at Evansville a month ago. The Redbirds went nearly six minutes without scoring a basket tostart the game and could never recover. They get a ...
DAILY DIGEST
Mar 02, 2006 ... NEWS IN BRIEF Eureka alters fine for illegal parking EUREKA - Eureka has changed 84 parking signs on city streets andin private lots to comply with a new state law that increases thefind for parking illegally in a handicapped space. "We probably dont write more than ...
Setting it right
Mar 01, 2006 ... Nursing students - Mennonite College of Nursing at Illinois StateUniversity had about 500 students at the end of the ...
DAILY BRIEFING
Mar 01, 2006 ... LOCAL Radio station WTRX changes music format BLOOMINGTON - WTRX 93.7 FM has changed its format to include alineup of oldies music from the 1960s and 70s, and exclusivebroadcasts of the Bloomington Extreme football and Prairie Thunderhockey teams based at the U.S. Cellular ...
Blue Ridge librarian retires
Mar 01, 2006 ... MANSFIELD - Dorothy Eddings - a familiar face to many Mansfieldresidents who visit the Blue Ridge Township Public Library - hasretired after serving as librarian for 37 years. Eddings, who has worked at the library since 1969, says she hasmixed feelings about leaving the position ...
Sprucing up for spring
Mar 01, 2006 ... Spring-like weather had Illinois State University groundskeeperstrimming back bushes Tuesday around campus. Steve ...
Fee game no better in D.C. than in Springfield
Mar 01, 2006 ... President Bush seems to be taking a page out of Gov. RodBlagojevichs budget playbook: increase "fees" instead of "taxes" andmaybe no one will notice. Of course, people in Illinois did notice - especially businessesthat decided it was cheaper to be based elsewhere. But that ...
CHECK THESE OUT
Mar 01, 2006 ... Fruit flavored snacks Betty Crocker has taken a radical turn indeed, and frankly itscares us just a bit. New Fruit Gushers Berry Radical G Force FruitFlavored Snacks sound like something that should be handled ...
A fetus is a baby that deserves our respect
Mar 01, 2006 ... Dictionary quote for fetus: "A human being in later stage of itsgrowth inside the uterus." Why isn't the fetus at that time called ababy? Isn't it ironic how the new morality wants to confuse the youngpeople using fetus to make one think it's a blob? Another family tradition ...
Third person arrested in string of wallet thefts
Mar 01, 2006; ... NORMAL - A third person has been arrested in a string of seventhefts in which police say a group distracted shoppers in grocerystores and stole their wallets. Rosie L. Hart, 56, of Chicago, was arrested in February andreleased Friday on bond from the county jail on a charge of ...
Eureka Colleges Richard tabbed first-team All-NIIC
Mar 01, 2006 ... EUREKA - Eureka Colleges A.J. Richard, a 6-foot-7 junior centerfrom Gibson City, earned first-team all-Northern Illinois-IowaConference basketball honors Tuesday. Richard ranked fourth in the league in blocked shots (1.55), fifthin rebounds (7.7) and field goal percentage (50.7) ...
College notebook
Mar 01, 2006 ... West grad Chismarktabbed all-conference Olivet Nazarene junior forward Stan Chismark, a former Normal WestHigh School basketball star, has been named to the all-ChicagolandCollegiate Athletic Conference first team. The 6-foot-5 Chismark is averaging a team-high 14.6 points for ...
Second Pres pastor 1st man to receive Keeran award
Mar 01, 2006; ... BLOOMINGTON - A minister who was instrumental in creating theCompassion Center, the day center for homeless people, and ShareFest,the annual communitywide volunteerism program, is the first man toreceive the Gale Keeran Spirit of Success Award. The Rev. Ted Pierce, senior pastor of ...
Hot start sparks BHS past Prairie Central
Mar 01, 2006; ... NORMAL - Ron Rose was battling the flu Tuesday night. HisBloomington High School basketball team was feeling just fine, thankyou. The second-seeded Purple Raiders nailed their first five shotswhile building a 15-2 lead and went on to an 89-38 semifinal victoryover No. 13 seed ...
Lyons leads way as Pontiac cruises
Mar 01, 2006 ... PONTIAC - Junior forward Kevin Lyons netted six of Pontiac HighSchools nine 3-point baskets and the fourth-seeded Indians rolled toa 75-56 win over 18th-seeded Kankakee Bishop McNamara Tuesday in thesemifinals of the Pontiac Class AA Regional. Lyons finished with a game-high 25 ...
Broadway show tunes to highlight program
Mar 01, 2006 ... BLOOMINGTON - "Off Broadway" is the theme of the Sound of IllinoisBarbershop Chorus 64th annual show, being performed this weekend atNormal Community West High School, 501 N. Parkside Road, Normal. The performances are at 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday, and 7 p.m. Sunday.Tickets are $15 and ...
Shared passion unites volunteers
Mar 01, 2006; ... NORMAL - Greg Horn credits his German shepherd, Asta, for thecreation of the Illinois Search Dogs Inc. "I was working on another team with her and I learned to love thepeople involved," said Horn. "The time I spent with her reallydeveloped a special bond." When Horn moved to ...
Speaker: Keep up emotional energy
Mar 01, 2006; ... BLOOMINGTON - Mira Kirshenbaum was born in Eastern Europe afterWorld War II and spent the first four years of her life in a refugeecamp with Holocaust survivors. "These people were homeless and penniless and had a lot ofhorrible memories," Kirshenbaum, 60, said Tuesday night in ...
'Repair man' makes a move Instrument guru has new place for fixing off-key trumpets, etc.
Mar 01, 2006; ... BLOOMINGTON - Carl Thacker doesnt play music, but he repairsinstruments for some of the finest jazz musicians in the world. With about 30 years of experience, Thacker opened Carls Pro BandInstrument Repair, 802 N. Morris St., Bloomington. He plans to have agrand opening March 11 ...
Clinton refueling finished
Mar 01, 2006; ... CLINTON - Clinton Power Station should soon be back to fullelectrical generation capacity following a 27-day regularly scheduledrefueling and maintenance outage. The plant went off line Jan. 29 so workers could refuel thenuclear reactor. They also performed regular maintenance ...
Redbirds know they need a road victory
Mar 01, 2006; ... NORMAL - The Illinois State womens basketball team faces another"must-win situation tonight if it wants to avoid a play-in game inthe upcoming Missouri Valley Conference Tournament. The Redbirds take their 11-14 overall record and 6-10 conferencemark to Evansville for a 7:05 ...
Mosely takes off to job on Miami staff Former ISU, Ilinois receiver to coach Hurricanes wideouts
Mar 01, 2006; ... Marquis Mosely was headed toward a career as a commercial pilot.The horror of Sept. 11, 2001, sent him searching elsewhere. Ultimately, the former Bloomington High School, University ofIllinois and Illinois State receiver returned to his first love:football. Five years later, his ...
Commending White Sox GM for timely hit
Mar 01, 2006; ... Credit Kenny Williams with the first home run of spring training,a tape measure shot that traveled from Arizona to every corner of thecountry. The pitch was straight as an arrow and down the heart of theplate. Williams could have left it alone, as he had so many timesbefore. He ...
DEATHS
Mar 01, 2006 ... Bobby Scurlock Jr. BLOOMINGTON - Bobby Clark Scurlock Jr., 49, of 407 S. KreitzerAve., Bloomington, died at 10:06 a.m. Saturday (Feb. 25, 2006) inBloomington. Service: Private family service. He will be cremated. Visitation: None. Carmody-Flynn Williamsburg Funeral ...
DEATHS
Mar 02, 2006 ... Mary Elizabeth Wood BLOOMINGTON - Elizabeth "Libby" Wood, 77, passed away Feb. 21,2006, in Lonetree, Colo. She is survived by her daughters, Susan and Kimberley; sons,Grant, Mike and Tim; and seven grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Dr. Edward ...
Pontiac Chamber honors 3
Mar 02, 2006; ... PONTIAC - A man who has been selling farming equipment for morethan 32 years was named the Bill Edwards Agri-Business Person of theYear by the Pontiac Area Chamber of Commerce. Clark Stoller, owner of Stoller International, has five stores inthe Central Illinois area, including ...
Circus wet and wild fun
Mar 02, 2006; ... URBANA - If you tell Krin Maren Haglund that her performance asone of the stars of Canadas Cirque Eloize (pronounced "sirk ell-wah") is all wet, youd be right. And shed be flattered. At the end of a nights performance, shes downright soaked to theskin, as are all her fellow ...
Eight Below packs punch Harsh reality of film a caution for kid viewers
Mar 02, 2006; ... With "March of the Penguins" still frozen solid in our memories,weve been primed for "Eight Below," a Disney return to its classicanimal-adventure form. But it packs a bit more harsh reality than the"Incredible Journey" days of yore. Basically, its the "March of the Huskies," with ...
Better detention policy needed for war on terror
Mar 02, 2006 ... More than four years after the first terrorist suspects arrived atGuantanamo Bay, Cuba, there is still no answer to the question of howlong the camp will remain open and under what circumstances. Around the globe, the camp remains a lightning rod for those whocomplain about ...
Finding the fakes
Mar 02, 2006 ... Findingthe fakes The following are some tips from the U.S. Secret Service to helpyou spot counterfeit money.- All bills are printed with ink thatchanges color. A bill will be green when you look at it directly andturn black when you view it from an angle. Counterfeiters ...
Going for gold Dan Craft predicts winners of 2006 Academy Awards
Mar 02, 2006; ... Not a very good year for the major studios, 2005. At least in terms of movies deemed worthy of Oscar love as thefinal 31 days of the last month wound down. Most of the nominees hail either from independent distributors orwere independent productions shepherded into limited ...
Dont believe figures in governors campaign
Mar 02, 2006 ... Illinois inflated its job-creation figures. That doesnt surpriseus, especially after learning last year that the $621 million"efficiency" savings in Gov. Rod Blagojevichs administration didntexist either. But that isnt stopping the governor from using efficiency ingovernment and ...
Ex-State Farm data expert cant imagine life without computers
Mar 02, 2006; ... BLOOMINGTON - Myron Willke, who founded the data processingdepartment at State Farm Insurance Cos. in the mid-1950s, cantimagine life without computers. "Theyre in our cars, in our airplanes and in our microwaves," hesaid. Without computers, we "wouldnt recognize our world," ...
Altitude, weather cited in 04 crash Four from area killed in W. Va.
Mar 02, 2006; ... BLOOMINGTON - Weather and the pilots failure to maintain groundclearance are listed as the probable causes for a 2004 airplane crashthat killed five people, including four from Central Illinois, inWest Virginia. The National Transportation Safety Board determined the ...
Lincoln Christian women earn NCCAA national win
Mar 02, 2006 ... Sophomore guard Jodi Raymer scored 24 points Wednesday night tolead the Lincoln Christian College womens basketball team past Crown(Minn.) College, 56-43, in the National Christian Collegiate AthleticAssociation (NCCAA) national tournament at Lakeland, Fla. Kari Otto added 11 ...