The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL back issues from October 2007:
Holiday aromasignals season
Oct 01, 2007; ... NORMAL - It won't be long before the smell of cinnamon and pinepermeates the air all over town. But customers at Yankee Candle at the Shoppes at College Hills inNormal already can get a whiff of the seasonal scents. Yankee Candle recently brought back eight of its Christmas ...
Pumpkins the topic for HCE groups
Oct 01, 2007 ... McLean County Home Community Education has designated OctoberEducation month. Unit activities will include "Food, Fun and Facts-Friendly Pumpkin." Fact Find is Pumpkins. Groups will meet asfollows: Blue Mound Unit - 1:30 Oct. 17 at the Peoples State Bank inColfax. Shirley ...
A moving experience
Oct 01, 2007 ... Pantagraph/LORI ANN COOK Phillip Reed of Bloomington fills an Evergreen F.S. grain truck tomove ...
Wind whips field fire
Oct 01, 2007; ... pwelander@mchsi.com SHIRLEY <\ An apparent out-of-control trash burn southwest ofBloomington became a large, wind-fueled field fire Sunday afternoon,jumping from field to field and creating a white smoke plume visiblefor miles. The fire started at about 1:15 p.m. and swept ...
Walk aids hungry in U.S., the world
Oct 01, 2007; ... LINCOLN <\ Lincoln High School senior Sara Rossetti joined about adozen others Sunday in the Church World Service three-mile CROPwalkhere. Rossetti wishes more people were dedicated to fighting hunger."What we take for granted every day is treasured somewhere else,"Rossetti ...
Funerals pending
Oct 01, 2007 ... Dunlap, Lillian, 88, of 14 Heartland Drive, Bloomington, 3:05 PMSunday (Sept. 30, 2007) at her residence. Carmody-Flynn WilliamsburgFuneral Home, Bloomington. Krueger, Howard, 89 of Reddick, 11:30 a.m. Sunday (Sept. 30, ...
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Oct 01, 2007; ... McLEAN - The town square of McLean was in full swing over theweekend for the 65th annual McLean Harvest Festival, sponsored byAmerican Legion Post 573. "It's turned out beautiful," said Charlie Townsend, the AmericanLegion member responsible for the lemon shake-ups - the ...
Hobbled Hronec helpsD'
Oct 01, 2007; ... NORMAL - A gimpy Bill Hronec was still an effective Bill HronecSaturday at Hancock Stadium. After missing the Missouri game on Sept. 22 with an ankle injury,the Illinois State middle linebacker was limited all week inpractice. Hronec still managed 11 tackles, a forced fumble, ...
Veto session challengelikely in truckers' bill
Oct 01, 2007; ... SPRINGFIELD - Supporters of allowing truckers to drive faster onIllinois highways are gearing up for another go-around with thegovernor. As state lawmakers roll into Springfield, they will likely beasked to override Gov. Rod Blagojevich's veto of legislation thatwould raise the ...
Community
Oct 01, 2007 ... WEDNESday CommunityAdvance pledges can be collected by walkers for CROP WALKin Clinton; 2 p.m. Oct. 14, upper parking lot of Weldon Springsconcession area to walk to Clinton Square. Call (217) 935-8464.- Farmers' market; 7 a.m. to noon, Latham Park, Lincoln. Call (217) 732-6962.- ...
Worker claimsdrop in Unit 5
Oct 01, 2007 ... NEWS IN BRIEF Worker claims drop in Unit 5 NORMAL - Unit 5 school district's worker compensation claimscontinue to drop significantly for the third year in a row. During the fiscal year ending in June, the district had $186,000in claims, down from $308,000 the previous ...
Road updates
Oct 01, 2007 ... Road updates Bloomington-Normal 2. Various streets in uptown Normal are affected by the Marriotthotel project. 2. Beaufort between Fell Avenue and Constitution Trail is closedthrough early 2009. Beaufort between Fell and Broadway is closedthrough late 2008. 2 ....
People's Voice group wantsto shake up Livingston board
Oct 01, 2007; ... PONTIAC <\ Stephen Bartley, coordinator for the Peoples Voice LC,said he believes the people of Livingston County are not beingrepresented by the current County Board. He's looking to change that. "We want candidates to run for County Board who will vote for themajority of ...
Economictrouble hitsinjured vets
Oct 01, 2007; ... and Kimberly Hefling Associated Press TEMECULA, California - He was one of America's first defenders onSept. 11, 2001, a Marine who pulled burned bodies from the ruins ofthe Pentagon. He saw more horrors in Kuwait and Iraq. Today, he can't keep a job, pay his bills, or ...
Basketball
Oct 01, 2007 ... GO& PLAY Basketball What: Game Time Gym II basketball skills training When: 5 to 6 p.m. Wednesdays for seven weeks beginning Oct 17;registration deadline is Wednesday. Who: Boys and girls, kindergarten through sixth grade Where: Game Time Gym II, 404 ...
Prepare for clout drought with departures in Congress
Oct 01, 2007 ... From the standpoint of seniority and political clout, CentralIllinois has been fortunate to be represented by U.S. Reps. TimJohnson, Ray LaHood and Jerry Weller. But LaHood and Weller have announced they won't be running for re-election next year. Add to that the departure of ...
SpinZone
Oct 01, 2007; ... NORMAL - Brett Comincioli hopes disc golf can become a mainstreamsport. He's got numbers to show it's headed that way. Since 2001, the number of disc golf courses in Illinois has gonefrom around 50 to more than 100. Comincioli believes the sudden spikewill continue to grow on ...
Bowling notebook
Oct 01, 2007 ... ////BOWLING NOTEBOOK FOR DO IT! PAGE\\ Senior tournament slated for Oct. 13-14 The Bloomington USBC WBA/BA Senior Tournament will be held Oct. 13-14 at Twin City Lanes with a 1 p.m. squad each day. Entry forms areavailable from the bowling centers and completed entries with ...
Area woman facescocaine charge
Oct 01, 2007 ... InCourt Area woman faces cocaine charge STREATOR<\ A Streator woman has been charged with the Class Xfelony of possession of crack cocaine with intent to deliver, whichwould preclude probation if convicted. -Tameka Hunter, 29, of the Frech Street public housing ...
Saint James
Oct 01, 2007 ... AWARDS Saint James PONTIAC - OSF Saint James-John W. Albrecht Medical Center inPontiac has received certification as an Emergency DepartmentApproved for Pediatrics. The recognition is for three years. The certification means that the emergency department staff ...
Homework requiredto find the right sitter
Oct 01, 2007; ... Anerve-racking moment for parents is leaving their children with asitter for the first time. Whether it's a close family friend, aneighbor or a teenager, a variety of scenarios can enter a parent'smind: What if there's a fire? What if my child chokes? If there's anemergency, will the ...
Scholar sets ISUreturn
Oct 01, 2007; ... NORMAL - Scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., whose latest book tracesOprah Winfrey's African ancestry, returns Thursday to Illinois StateUniversity, where he spoke nearly 20 years ago. Possibly best known for his advocacy of creating black studiesprograms at colleges and universities, ...
Woman hopes her breast cancersurvival story is helpful to others
Oct 01, 2007; ... BLOOMINGTON - Maintaining a sense of humor is important whenbattling breast cancer, said cancer survivor Ruth Ann Hieronymus. The 73-year-old Atlanta woman practices what she preaches whentalking about her breast prosthesis, compression stockings,compression sleeve and ...
The news:
Oct 01, 2007 ... The news: People will lose weight for even a little money,suggests a study that offers another round of options for employerslooking for ways to cut health-care costs. The research: Research published in the September issue of theJournal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine ...
Therecovery
Oct 01, 2007; ... BLOOMINGTON - Ruth Ann Hieronymus is direct when describing theimpact of her breast prosthesis. "It helps me to feel more like a woman," said the 73-year-old, two-time breast cancer survivor. After losing much of her left breast in a modified mastectomy in1992, Hieronymus ...
GPS turns heads of visitors
Oct 02, 2007; ... LEXINGTON - A group of Japanese agribusiness professionals tookturns in the passenger seat of a tractor as the farm machineryvirtually drove itself in a straight line. The miracle was the tractor's high-tech global positioning systemat work. Todd Taylor, a representative of ...
Globetrotters set B-N date; OakRidge Boys to play Peoria concert
Oct 02, 2007 ... The Harlem Globetrotters and the Oak Ridge Boys are coming to areavenues in the months ahead. The world-famous Globetrotters will bring their "Magic as EverTour" to the U.S. Cellular Coliseum in Bloomington on Jan. 24. Tickets are $21 for behind the basket, $28 for upper ...
Heartland Theatre
Oct 02, 2007 ... THEATER Heartland Theatre NORMAL - Heartland Theatre Company's newly remodeled space at OneNormal Plaza will be unveiled to the public for this first time withthis weekend's opening of "The Wrong Turn at Lungfish." The Garry Marshall-Lowell Ganz comedy-drama premieres ...
Making headlines
Oct 02, 2007; ... Long story short: the bob is back. It looks good on almost everyone. It makes older women lookyounger and younger women look older. Worn sleek and polished orcasual and tucked behind one ear, it's a good look. It's not like the bob has ever really gone out of style ....
Gonzales out, but Cubs in! What a September!
Oct 02, 2007; ... COLUMN DIARY, a check of big headlines, small wonders and otherworldly events: September 2007 1. Srvy fnds 1 in 5 Americns txt-message whle drvng, a prcticecnsidred as dngerus as drnk drvng. 2. U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez resigns. Or is that Gone-zalez? ...
Amtrak train strikes man
Oct 02, 2007; ... BLOOMINGTON <\ A man was taken to the hospital after being hit byan Amtrak train Monday night on Bloomington's west side, police said. The injured pedestrian was removed from near the first car of thesouthbound Amtrak passenger train just south of the Locust Streetbridge east of ...
Scorched fields fueled by trash burns
Oct 02, 2007; ... SHIRLEY <\ Out-of-control trash burns ignited many of the fieldfires in McLean and neighboring counties over the weekend, causingdamage to valuable farmland while keeping rural firefighters busy. Among those was a field fire near Shirley that jumped fields andburned portions of ...
IWU men claim winat golf tournament
Oct 02, 2007 ... WABASH, Ind. - Junior Chris Green carded a 2-over-par 36-holetotal of 144 to lead the Illinois Wesleyan men's golf team to a 19stroke victory at the Manchester Invitational on Monday at theHoneywell Golf Course in Wabash. Green fired a 1-under-par ...
More rain on the way for area
Oct 02, 2007; ... NORMAL - More relief for the drought conditions in CentralIllinois could come tonight when more thunderstorms reach the area.More rain is expected for Saturday and Sunday. A dose of cooler weather and a little rain early Monday may havehelped it feel a little more like fall, but ...
Compassion Center hopes its community can restock shelves
Oct 02, 2007; ... BLOOMINGTON - An increase in the number of homeless seekingdaytime services has left the shelves at Compassion Center bare. "We've gone from 50 to 60 (people) a day to 70 or 80 a day," saidAlicia Girard, manager of homeless services for PATH (ProvidingAccess To Help), the agency ...
Letters
Oct 02, 2007 ... View from motorcycle of soldiers' welcome home I had a couple Patriot Guard Rider missions Sept. 27, and I canreport that small town USA adores their returning warriors. As the parade began, we encountered a screaming, flag-waving, sign-holding crowd that nobody anticipated ....
At 2-3, ISUremains inboth polls
Oct 02, 2007; ... NORMAL - A loss that dropped the Illinois State football team'srecord below .500 has not prevented the Redbirds from being listed inthe top 25 of the Football Championship Subdivision rankings of theSports Network for the 23rd consecutive poll. After a 23-13 defeat to Northern Iowa ...
New hearing scheduled in sex abuse case
Oct 02, 2007 ... PONTIAC - Another hearing has been scheduled to consider a defensemotion to keep a 6-year-old victim from testifying at a sex abusetrial. Clifton Olds, 28, of Chatsworth faces two counts of aggravatedcriminal sexual abuse. He is accused of molesting the girl, then 5,twice in her ...
Livingston plan for higher tipping fees would include construction, development
Oct 02, 2007; ... PONTIAC - The county finance committee will meet again Wednesdayto look over goals for long-term financial stability and planning. "We want to develop a long-range financial plan that will allowthe county to be financially stable for many years to come,"Livingston County Chairman ...
Democratswant Halvorsonin the House
Oct 02, 2007; ... SPRINGFIELD <\ Democrats in Washington, D.C., are wining anddining state Sen. Debbie Halvorson in an attempt to beef up theirmajority in Congress. Halvorson, D-Crete, was in the nation's capital over the weekend,where she met with strategists and top party officials who are ...
Benefit in Chenoaaids cancer patient
Oct 02, 2007 ... NEWS IN BRIEF Benefit in Chenoa aids cancer patient CHENOA - The Finish Line in Chenoa will host a benefit for JoeChurch, who has cancer, at noon Saturday. The fee of $5 includesfood, entertainment and a drawing. An auction begins at 6 p.m. Donations may be mailed to ...
Illini's Benn named Big Tenplayer of week for special teams
Oct 02, 2007 ... CHAMPAIGN - Illinois wide receiver Arrelious Benn has been namedBig Ten special teams Player of the Week after his performanceagainst Penn State, which included a 90-yard kickoff ...
Kristi Katz,Illinois Wesleyan
Oct 02, 2007 ... Kristi Katz, Illinois Wesleyan 1. Hometown Park Ridge, Ill. 2. Sport Women's golf 3. Year Senior 4. Major Political science and English (double major) - pre-law 5. Favorite class I think I'm going to have to say my politicalscience senior seminar. I'm ...
Illini can't quite break into polls, but getting close
Oct 02, 2007; ... This was the week to fill out the Associated Press Top 25 collegefootball poll in pencil. Using an eraser and nudging teams up, down and in one instance outaltogether, piecing together this week's rankings was more difficultthan knocking out the Sunday crossword puzzle in 30 ...
Pilot killed in crash had license review
Oct 02, 2007; ... BLOOMINGTON <\ The pilot involved in a fatal plane crash near theCentral Illinois Regional Airport had medical conditions thatprompted a second review by FAA doctors before his license to fly wasrenewed. James L. Gross, 66, of Madison, Ala., died Nov. 9, 2005, when ...
Golf regional capsules
Oct 02, 2007 ... CLASS 1A BOYS TODAY Peoria Christian Regional Where Donovan Golf Course Area teams Ridgeview, El Paso-Gridley, Eureka, Lexington, Roanoke-Benson, Tremont Keep an eye on The host team will be hard to beat on its homecourse. Eureka and El Paso-Gridley ...
Woman realizes lifelong dream with horse ranch, 4-H club
Oct 01, 2007; ... FARMER CITY - Working with horses is more than just a job for DeeHasler. It's a calling. Hasler fell in love with horses when she was just a child. Now 41,she can share her passion for horses with both children and adults. Hasler and her father operate Hasler's Double D Ranch, ...
IWU women golfers win tourney
Oct 01, 2007 ... Maddie Murphy fired a career best 4-over-par 76 to claim medalisthonors and lead the Illinois Wesleyan women's golf team to an eight-shot win in the Red Tail Run Fall Classic at the Red Tail Run GolfClub in Decatur. Murphy's two-day total of 154 tied her with Ali Murtaugh of ...
Marinkovic, Tobar pull upset to earn Valley doubles crown
Oct 01, 2007 ... A victory by Illinois State's Luke Marinkovic and Daniel Tobarover Drake University's nationally ranked No. 1 doubles teamhighlighted the final day of play for the men's tennis team at theMissouri Valley Conference Individual Championship in Omaha, Neb., onSunday. Markinovic and ...
Deaths
Oct 01, 2007 ... Central Illinois Charles W. Holmes DELAVAN <\ Charles "Chuck" Wesley Holmes, 76, of Lincoln, formerlyof Delavan, died at 12:36 p.m. Saturday (Sept. 29, 2007) at MemorialMedical Center, Springfield. Service: Graveside service at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at St. Mary'sCemetery, ...
Letters
Oct 01, 2007 ... Be careful of wishing for universal healthcare Anyone wishing for a government-sponsored universal healthcaresystem should be careful what you wish for, you might get it! In the early 1980s, I was diagnosed as having malignant bladdertumors. After several years of doctoring in ...
Funerals today
Oct 01, 2007 ... Cline, Loretta Faye, 10:30 a.m. at Middletown United MethodistChurch, Middletown. Engelhorn, Miriam Ambrose, noon at Carmody-Flynn WilliamsburgFuneral Home, Bloomington. Essington, John Robert, 1 p.m. at United Methodist Church, ...
Tuesday
Oct 01, 2007 ... Tuesday - Medicare Program by Bryan Padget, outreach coordinatorwith the Senior Health Insurance Program of the Illinois Departmentof Financial and Professional Regulation, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at BeulahLand Christian Home, Flanagan; free; (815) 796-2267. Wednesday - Cholesterol ...
Ryan Eberle
Oct 01, 2007 ... U.S. Navy Ryan Eberle NORMAL - U.S. Navy Seaman Recruit Ryan M. Eberle, son of Sue andBill Green, Normal, and Ken and Marla Eberle, Morton, completed basictraining at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes. He is a 2001graduate of Morton High School. Eberle is ...
Professor doubts church's Lincoln claims
Oct 02, 2007; ... LINCOLN - Lincoln Christian Church's announcement last month thatAbraham Lincoln practiced law at its first church building is beingmet with some skepticism. Leigh Henson, professor emeritus of English at Missouri StateUniversity, does not believe the church has made its ...
Road to state tourney still difficult for smaller schools
Oct 02, 2007; ... The 12 schools in the Heart of Illinois Conference with boys golfteams aren't practicing at Bloomington's Prairie Vista Golf Course,site of the state meet, just yet. The new three-class state tournament series implemented by theIllinois High School Association begins with regionals ...
Funerals today
Oct 02, 2007 ... Holmes, Charles "Chuck" Wesley, 2:30 p.m. graveside at St. Mary'sCemetery, Delavan. Huskins, Everett P. Sr., 10:30 a.m. at Fricke-Calvert-SchraderFuneral Home, Lincoln. Silvey, Mary Isadore, ...
Old Route 66 remains a road to opportunity
Oct 02, 2007 ... A3-mile bike trail in Chenoa doesn't mean very much by itself. Butas part of a state-spanning trail along old Route 66, it could becomea big deal. Chenoa recently received a $300,000 federal grant, administeredthrough the Illinois Department of Transportation, to convert ...
Unemployment ticksupward for August
Oct 02, 2007; ... BLOOMINGTON - Central Illinois unemployment increased slightly inAugust, according to a report released by the Illinois Department ofEmployment Security. The McLean County jobless rate rose from 3.9 percent to 4.2percent in August, as more people entered the workforce, said ...
Computer Upload
Oct 02, 2007; ... BLOOMINGTON - Georgia Bouda can't remember the last time publicInternet terminals at the Bloomington Public Library weren't in use. "We need more computers," said the library director. The computer shortage at the Bloomington library and several otherlibraries in Central ...
Pipeline foes seek help to fight eminent domain bid
Oct 02, 2007; ... BLOOMINGTON - LeRoy attorney and political activist Tom Pliura isrecruiting clients to fight an eminent-domain request to build acrude-oil pipeline from Pontiac to Patoka in Southern Illinois. Millions of dollars in payments to landowners hang in the outcomeof Enbridge Inc.'s ...
Sang, Bruns send University High to volleybal lwin
Oct 02, 2007 ... Ashlee Sang's 30 digs and Taylor Bruns' 20 assists helped propelthe University High School volleyball team to a 25-18, 25-14nonconference victory over host Lexington on Monday night. Mandy Feitand Jenna Bean each finished with eight digs for Lexington (17-5),while Jessica Kraft had eight ...
Ex-Normal acreagein municipal limbo
Oct 02, 2007 ... NORMAL - Ten acres the town rolled over to Bloomington last monthto accommodate a business is now in limbo. The council agreed to give the west-side property to Bloomingtonbelieving that Chuck's Harley-Davidson store owner Winnie Fekenwanted it for a new store. Normal officials ...
Team's ideasto turn Normalmore green
Oct 02, 2007; ... NORMAL - A rain garden could grace the Normal City Hall campus oneday, and the Children's Discovery Museum could use an alternativesource for electricity. Normal could buy into Corn Belt Energy's Green Power Program, andresidents could have access to a recycling compactor at a ...
ISU women golfers in7th
Oct 02, 2007 ... Illinois State women's golfer and Central Catholic grad StaceyMiller carded a five-over-par 149 to put her in a tie for seventhplace and six shots off the pace in the Marilynn Smith SunflowerInvitational Monday at Colbert Hills Golf Club in Manhattan, Kan. The Redbirds are in ...