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The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has made public the names of undergraduate students receiving semester honors for the fall 2019 semester and among that list of students is Marissa Lung of Roodhouse.

Students who earn a 4.0 grade point average, which represents all “A” grades, receive highest honors. High honors go to students earning 3.99 to 3.75 grade point averages.

Honors are given to students earning 3.74 to 3.50 grade point averages. All were fulltime students in the fall term, earning 12 or more credits of graded coursework. This list includes students attending all four UWGreen Bay campuses (Green Bay, Marinette, Manitowoc, Sheboygan).

Tiger Tales

Congratulations to the 7th grade boys’ basketball team that won the regional. Best of luck to them at the sectionals. Best of luck to the 8th grade boys’ basketball team that is playing in their regionals this week and to the GNW Lady Tigers who start Regionals next week. If you can believe it, we will be half way through the 3rd quarter at the end this week! We are looking forward to that early spring promised by Punxsutawney Phil. Have a great week – Go Get ‘Em, Tigers!!

Feb. 6 – HS Girls’ Basketball @ Bunker Hill, 6 p.m.

Scholastic Bowl @ Calhoun, 5:20 p.m. Jr High Volleyball vs. Carrollton, 6:15 p.m.

Feb. 7 – HS Boys’ Basketball vs. Routt @ Greenfield, 6:15 p.m. PeeWee Boys’ Basketball vs. Calhoun, 6:15 p.m.

Feb. 8 – Jr High Volleyball 8 th Grade Tournament @ Jerseyville

PeeWee Boys’ Basketball @ Carrollton, 10 a.m.

Feb. 10 – HS Boys’ Basketball @ Southwestern, 6 p.m.

Scholastic Bowl @ Routt, 5:20 p.m. Junior High Olympiad PeeWee Boys 6th Grade Tournament @ St. John’s

Feb. 11 – High School Olympiad Jr. High Volleyball vs. Franklin, 6:15 p.m.

PeeWee Boys 6th Grade Tournament @ St. John’s

Feb. 12 - PeeWee Boys 6th Grade Tournament @ St. John’s

NG CNA Class completion

The North Greene Educational Foundation announced that the first group of students have successfully completed the 16-week North Greene/Lewis and Clark Community College CNA Program. On Dec. 13, students were presented with their CNA pins. Front row, from left to right: Cecilia Nassar, Abigail Palmer, Piper Bushnell, Dajha Fane, and Hannah Sitton. Middle row: Leah Sherwin, Lacey Meharg, Shelby Ford, Lana Schutz, Maci Lemons and Samuel Newingham. Top row: Instructors Cindy Krieg and Jannette Tillery Smith. A second class will be offered to current NGHS juniors during the fall semester of the 2020-2021 school year.

SCHOOL LUNCH MENUS

Carrollton Grade School menu

Monday, Feb. 10: Grilled chicken on bread, corn, mandarin oranges, chocolate chip muffins Tuesday, Feb. 11: Grilled cheese, tomato soup, crackers, broccoli/dip, pears

Wednesday, Feb. 12: Italian dunkers, lettuce, baked apples, goldfish grahams

Thursday, Feb. 13: Mexican sombreros, spicy pinto beans, peaches, salsa

Friday, Feb. 14: No lunch served

Breakfast Menu: Monday – Biscuits/gravy; Tuesday – French toast sticks; Wednesday – Sausage egg biscuit; Thursday – Breakfast pizza; Friday – Cheesy oven eggs

Entree, fresh fruit juice, toast and milk served daily. Cereal and yogurt offered as an alternative breakfast entree. Lunch entree alternative: Peanut butter only and peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Bread and milk served daily with lunch-chocolate, white, strawberry milk.

Menu subject to change.

Carrollton High School menu

Monday, Feb. 10: Chicken fries, green beans, orange wedges, apple oat bar

Tuesday, Feb. 11: Spaghetti, breadsticks, lettuce salad w/ cheese/ tomato/ranch/french, apple Wednesday, Feb. 12: Turkey, mashed potatoes, brown gravy, peaches, dinner roll, sherbet Thursday, Feb. 13: Tomato soup, grilled cheese, pears, cauliflower/ dip, muffin

Friday, Feb. 14: NO LUNCH

Breakfast Menu: Monday – Sausage gravy and biscuit; Tuesday – Breakfast pizza; Wednesday – Oven scrambled eggs with cheese and tater tots; Thursday – French toast sticks with syrup and bacon; Friday – Build a bagel. Cereal and toast offered as an alternative breakfast entree. All breakfast served with milk, juice and fruit.

Menu subject to change.

Greenfield menu

Breakfast: Monday, Feb. 10: French toast sticks or cereal

Tuesday, Feb. 11: Cereal bar or cereal

Wednesday, Feb. 12: Cinnamon roll or cereal

Thursday, Feb. 13: Bagel & CC or cereal

Friday, Feb. 14: Biscuits & sausage gravy or cereal

If available extras are offered as follows: Entree–50 cents, juice–20 cents, milk–30 cents. Friday, Feb. 14: Early out-sack lunch: Uncrustable, carrots w/ ranch, apple slices, baked chips, milk

If available extras are offered as follows: Entree–50 cents, vegetable or fruit–25 cents, milk–30 cents.

North Greene Junior High School menu

Monday, Feb. 10: Salisbury steak, mashed potatoes & gravy, green beans, applesauce, milk. Tuesday, Feb. 11: Chicken strip wrap, lettuce & cheese cups, corn, cookie, peaches, milk.

Wednesday, Feb. 12: Cheese Bosco stick, peas, yogurt, pears, milk.

Thursday, Feb. 13: Walking taco, lettuce & cheese cups, refried beans, mandarin oranges, milk. Friday, Feb. 14: SIP day, no lunch. Early dismissal @ 11:05. Menu subject to change.

North Greene High School menu

Lunch: Monday, Feb. 10: Corn dog, baked beans, mixed fruit, giant graham fish, milk

Tuesday, Feb. 11: Italian dunkers, marinara sauce, cooked carrots, pineapple, milk

Wednesday, Feb. 12: Mini cheese quesadillas, mixed vegetables, pears, lemon blueberry cookie, milk Thursday, Feb. 13: Chicken patty on bun, green beans, applesauce, Oreos, milk Monday, Feb. 10: Hamburger on bun, hashbrown patty, rice krispie treat, fruit, milk

Tuesday, Feb. 11: Chicken strips, carrots, Funyuns, fruit, milk Wednesday, Feb. 12: Pizza stuffed pretzel, green beans, pudding, fruit, milk

Thursday, Feb. 13: Hot dog on bun, baked beans, chips, fruit, milk Friday, Feb. 14: SIP day, no lunched served

Menu subject to change.

Authorities notify about election error

The Illinois State Board of Elections today notified 59 local election authorities that 774 former inmates of the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) may have had their voter registrations erroneously canceled due to a data-matching error involving both agencies.

The Greene County election jurisdiction was among the list of those affected with one cancelation.

Matching based on information forwarded to the State Board of Elections incorrectly categorized the individuals as currently incarcerated, when in fact they had completed their sentences and been discharged. The State Board of Elections has worked directly with the Illinois Department of Corrections to identify the affected individuals, whose records were among more than 126,000 shared between the two agencies between 2014 and 2019.

Under Illinois law, voting rights are suspended during an inmate’s period of incarceration but are restored upon release, though the individual must re-register to vote. This includes those who are released on parole, on mandatory supervised release and on condition of electronic monitoring.

The Board of Elections has provided each election authority with voter information on the affected individuals so that their registrations can be reviewed for reinstatement by the start of early voting on Feb. 6. It is possible that some of the cancellations are for reasons unrelated to this data error and known only to the local election authority.

The Board of Elections and Department of Corrections are committed to ensuring this does not happen again.

Both agencies are currently revising their data sharing agreement and matching parameters to avoid this error in future data exchanges. Upon identifying the potential problem in November 2019, the Board ceased sharing IDOC matches with local election authorities and began the process of identifying individuals who may have been affected by the error.

Because Illinois allows for voter registration on Election Day and the casting of provisional ballots for those whose registration status is in question, the affected registrants would have had the opportunity to re-register and/or cast provisional ballots at their polling places if they wished to vote in an election after the error occurred.

Boy with Greene ties invents video game

Submitted photo Jacob Bellet sits at the computer he used to create a video game called Protector of the Planet. The game was picked up by Google and is now available on the Google Play Store for anyone with an Android device. Bellet taught himself code to be able to produce the game. He is a seventh grader at Jersey Community Middle School.

By CARMEN ENSINGER Greene Prairie Press Jacob Bellet might only be 12 years old, but he has already done more than most people achieve in a lifetime – he created a video game that was picked up by the Google Play Store and is now available to anyone who has an Android phone.

Jacob, the son of Steven and Misty Bellet of Jerseyville, said he created the game “Protector of the Planet” in about five months but had to overcome one major obstacle – he didn’t know how to code. “He announced one day that he was going to create a video game and we are like ‘okay, honey, that’s great,’ and then one day he said ‘I’m done,’” Misty Bellet said. “Neither my husband nor I know anything about coding, but Jacob got on there and learned it on his own.”

Jacob, a seventh grade student at Jersey Community Middle School, said he loves computers.

“I’ve always liked computers, and when I grow up I want to create indie video games,” he said. “I have a computer class at school, but it didn’t teach us coding. For that I had to watch YouTube videos, and then I used a program called Unity to create the game.”

The game is pretty simple to understand. The planet earth is being bombarded by asteroids, and the player has to blast those asteroids to smithereens before they hit earth. There are three difficulty levels, easy, medium and hard, and power-ups can be earned for rapid fire, to slow down the asteroids and even a shield to shield the earth from the asteroids.

“I even learned how to put music to it,” Jacob said. “Some of the art I used was from free stuff that was available on Google, and then I edited it a little and coded it all.”

But Jacob wasn’t satisfied with just creating the game – he wanted to make it available to everyone, so he set out to get it on the Google Play Store for everyone to download. But before that could be done, he had to write a privacy policy.

“When he said he wante d to get it on the Google Play Store, we just shook our heads again,” Misty Bellet said. “Neither of us helped him any, and he spent two days going through the process o f writing all this stuff, and I’m thinking it’s not really going to come to fruition. But then the next thing you know it is on Google. Jacob has done this entirely on his own.”

So far, Jacob has not collected any money off of the game, but he hopes that will change in the future.

“I don’t make any money off of it because I don’t have any ads, but I’m going to put ads in in the new update that I’m going to put out in a couple of weeks,” he said. “But right now it is on Google for free for those who have an Android device. It’s not available for Apple users because it costs a lot of money to pu t it on there.”

Jacob’s friends are impressed that he actually created a video game.

“My friends all think it is pretty cool and fun to play, but a lot of them have iPhones and can’t download it,” he said. “But I let them play it on my phone, and they all seem to like it.”

It is a bit of a throwback for Misty who grew up in the era when Atari ruled the video gaming market.

“It is a lot of fun and reminds me of the old school Atari game of Asteroids when video games first came out,” she said. “Of course Jacob knows nothing about those games so it is kind of ironic that his game is a lot like it.” Misty Bellet grew up in the Hillview/White Hall area and graduated from North Greene High School so there are a lot of people in Greene County who are also proud of her son.

“I have a lot of family and friends in the Greene County area and they all think its great what Jacob has been able to achieve,” she said. “It’s one thing to create a video game but to have to teach yourself code first is even more amazing. We are so very proud of him.”