A day to sample what Jerseyville has to offer

The Jersey County Business Association (JCBA) is teaming up with local Jerseyville businesses to offer an event that is surely to be daytime drinking at its best. Sample, Pour & Explore will be on March 19 and will feature five Jerseyville establishments. From 11 am to 6 pm each stop along the way will feature a signature drink and appetizer. In addition to the fun of strolling through Jerseyville to visit new businesses, each participant who goes to all five locations can enter a raffle for a picnic hamper filled with local goodies, valued at over $250. Entry into the raffle, and the signature drink and appetizer at all five locations is included in the $25 per person ticket price.

Event organizer Lisa Wittman, who chairs the JCBA’s Small Business Committee said this was her first time doing an event like this in Jerseyville. “While the JCBA does a lot of work to promote shopping small, this is our first event of this type in Jerseyville. We ran a similar event in Grafton last year which was hugely successful, and we wanted to try and to do something similar. If all goes well, we hope to make this event an annual one, like its Grafton counterpart. Grab a group of friends, purchase your tickets, and join us for a great day.”

Tickets MUST be purchased in advance, so that our participating businesses can cater accordingly. Tickets can be purchased online, and a link to do so can be found at jcba-il. us/sample or by visiting the Sample, Pour & Explore Facebook event page. You must be 21 or over to purchase tickets, and identification will

JCBA grant program taking applications

The Jersey County Business Association (JCBA) is excited to announce the opening of another round of the Façade Improvement Program. Applications for building improvements for JCBA members are being taken now.

The JCBA began this program towards the end of 2020. The Façade Improvement Program enables JCBA members to apply for a matching grant of up to $1000 to improve the front or rear façade of their buildings. The JCBA will award a matching grant each quarter to its members with qualifying projects.

Research shows that when businesses make outside building improvements it leads to increased sales. Exterior improvements also tend to motivate owners and tenants of surrounding properties, creating a snowball effect that is beneficial for the whole community.

JCBA hopes that their Façade Improvement Program will help give many local businesses the resources they need to beautify their building and attract more customers. To enter your building for the next round of the program, you must be located within Jersey County and a member of the JCBA. To find out more and

Even Exchange

by Donna Pettman

Each numbered row contains two clues and two 6-letter answers. The two answers differ from each other by only one letter, which has already been inserted. For example, if you exchange the A from MA STER for an I, you get MISTER. Do not change the order of the letters.

Trivia Test

By Fifi Rodriguez

1. HISTORY: When did the first Winter Olympics take place?

2. PSYCHOLOGY: What is the extreme fear represented by a condition called ophidiophobia?

3. AD SLOGANS: Which company featured this advertising campaign in the mid-1980s: “Quality never goes out of style”?

4. LITERATURE: Which 19th-century novel begins with the line, “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show”?

5. MOVIES: Where were the park bench scenes from “Forrest Gump” filmed?

6. ANATOMY: What is the common name for the orbit in human anatomy?

7. MEASUREMENTS: What does a hygrometer measure?

8. U.S. STATES: In which state was the movie “Children of the Corn” filmed?

9. LANGUAGE: What does “fair dinkum” mean in Australian English?

10. SCIENCE: What is the common name for nitrous oxide? 3

(answers in puzzle solutions)