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Faith Baptist installs Blessings Box for all

By CARMEN ENSINGER Greene Prairie Press There are many kinds of blessings and we all need them in one form or another at one time or another. Faith Baptist Church in Carrollton has figured out a way to take care of at least one of those needs by installing a Blessings Box on the north side of their church, located in the 1000 block of Third Street.

The Blessings Box contains non-perishable food items and is for anyone in the community, not just the poor, not just the elderly – anyone.

Faith Baptist Church member Gwenda Berry got the idea from a trip she made to Tennessee to visit her sister.

“My sister’s church had done this and in the bigger cities you see them all over,” she said. “You stick your head around any corner and you will see them at all of the churches as they are quite common now.”

The Blessing Box is not meant to take the place of the

food pantry. Rather it is a place one would go for that odd item or two one would need at the last minute, or perhaps a place one would go to tide one over until the next food pantry visit.

“We know now that we lost our only store here in town that there might be a time when someone might be fixing dinner and need something at the last minute and maybe Dollar General is out of it,” Berry said. “Our idea was to have a wide selection of non-perishable items in here available to anyone and everyone, regardless of their financial standing.”

The box was built by Berry and two of her grandsons.

“Because of the high cost of lumber right now, we gathered together scrap pieces of lumber to build it,” she said. “My father taught us girls how to work with tools, so I am pretty good at building things and together with my grandsons, we put it together, painted it and set it up out here.”

The Blessing Box has been set up for about three weeks

now, but has not been blessing too many people – yet.

“We have had tons of donations from our church members, but the problem is no one knows it is here,” Berry said.

“We have tried to get the word out. I have put up flyers at the gas stations on their bulletin boards and at Dollar General and we even have it posted on our social media page.

Hopefully this article will let people know that we are here and want to help those who have needs, however small those needs might be.”

For example, children whose parents might work and who are left alone all day, Berry said they try to keep something in there that they can come by and grab to snack on until their parents get home to fix them something to eat.

In addition to food items, they also keep on hand dish soap, toilet paper, disinfectant, toilet bowl cleaner, laundry soap, just about any household product one might need.

(See, BLESSING BOX, A2)

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Gwenda Berry stands in front of the Blessing Box at Faith Baptist Church on Third Street in Carrollton that she and two of her grandsons built. The Blessing Box contains a variety of non-perishable food and other items for anyone in the community to come and get if they need them.

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NG students present at teacher’s conference

By CARMEN ENSINGER Greene Prairie Press Once in a great while, a teacher runs across a student that stands out heads and shoulders above the rest and makes an impact that can’t soon be forgotten.

For former North Greene Junior High teacher Twila Prunty, that student was eighth grader Julia Janus, who, along with Prunty, traveled to Green Bay, Wis. on July 13 to speak at a teacher’s conference regarding a textbook that Prunty used in her class in 8th grade in 2019 when Janus was in her class.

The textbook was called “Economic Episodes in American History” and Prunty was on the advisory board making the changes for the second edition.

For being on the advisory board, she was given 20 copies of the book.

Prunty explained how she came to introduce the book to her class at North Greene that Janus was in.

“The previous year, they had combined the seventh and eighth grade classes, so the following year, the seventh graders, who were now eighth graders, figured they had done everything they needed to do because they had the class the previous year,” she said. “So, I went to the principal and told her I was having a hard time getting the kids to do anything because they feel like they have already done everything.”

Prunty told North Greene Principal Amanda Macias about the book she had and asked if she could use it in her classroom, especially since the

books they were using were old and basically falling apart. Macias gave the okay and the 13 students in Prunty’s class all received a copy of the book.

“Mrs. Macias said she thought it would be too hard for them because it was geared towards the upper high school level, but I thought they would really come alive with it,” Prunty said. “I walked in the next day and handed out the textbooks and asked them what they thought about it and they all loved it. The chapters are only five to seven pages long and there is a before and after like history thing about what happened in the past and comparing it to what happened today. The kids could really relate to it.”

Janus especially liked the book, so much so that she went above and beyond what was covered in class.

“She wanted to read every single chapter and we just didn’t have time in class, so I told her to read a chapter and if she wanted she could zoom in with me and we could discuss it, and so we did,” Prunty said. “We didn’t get completely through the book so she asked me if she could keep it throughout the summer and bring it back in the fall. I knew I wasn’t going to be back in the fall because I had accepted a position at another district so I told her she could keep the book.”

In the meantime, Prunty had been discussing with the four authors of the textbook, Janus’ interest in the book and one of those authors wanted to talk with her.

(See, STUDENTS, A3)

By CONNOR ASHLOCK Calhoun News-Herald Now that the state has entered Phase 5 of Gov. JB Pritzker’s Restore Illinois plan, Two Rivers Crime Stoppers has recently begun an effort to bring an economic boost to the tri-county region.

The past year has brought a major disturbance in local economic activity, which immediately impacts businesses and other areas of community life in Calhoun, Greene and Jersey counties.

Two Rivers Crime Stoppers, which is composed of individuals whose families live and own businesses in the region, are aware of this situation and have thus initiated an effort to stimulate the area back to its prepandemic economic activity.

“Due to the past year’s pandemic situation, our local businesses have fallen way short of their financial goals,” Two Rivers Crime Stoppers member Terry Woelfel said. “Therefore, Crime Stoppers has made it a priority to assist businesses in the tri-county area by putting together a gift certificate fundraiser.”

As Woelfel shared, the local organization is purchasing gift certificates from local businesses and plans to raffle them off later this year on Sept. 16.

“We’re hoping to raise $2,500 in gift certificates in our raffle ticket sales,” Woelfel noted.

What Crime Stoppers volunteers have been doing is visiting businesses in Calhoun, Greene and Jersey counties and explaining to business owners what they are aiming to do.

Crime Stoppers is purchasing a $25 gift certificate from the business and in turn asks for a $25 gift certificate donation, so when all is said and done, the Crime Stoppers volunteer is walking out of the business with $50 in gift certificates.

“Our goal is to help the businesses who have struggled in the pandemic to get back on their feet,” Woelfel said.

According to Woelfel, thus far he has visited about 25 businesses and has yet to be turned down by a business owner.

“They all think it is a win-win,” Woelfel said. “I had a lady say to me the other day, ‘Why wouldn’t I want to do this?’”

(See, CRIME STOPPERS, A2)

Greenfield police stop results in multicounty pursuit

By CARMEN ENSINGER Greene Prairie Press

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n innocent traffic stop turned into a multi-county, multi-jurisdictional pursuit last week.

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North Greene soon-to-be sophomore Julia Janus along with her former teacher and three of the four authors of the American History textbook she was asked to speak on at a teacher’s conference in Green Bay, Wis. on July 13. Left to right: Tawni Hunt Ferrarini, Scott Niederjohn, Twila Prunty, Mark Schug and Julia Janus.

According to a press release from Greene County Sheriff Rob McMillen, on Wednesday, July 28, at approximately 2:33 a.m., a Greenfield Police Officer observed a blue passenger vehicle traveling southbound in Greenfield on Rt. 267 at a speed greater than the posted speed limit.

“The officer initiated a traffic stop on the vehicle and the vehicle pulled over just south of Greenfield on Rt. 267,” McMillen said. “Once the vehicle pulled over and the officer prepared to make contact with the driver, the vehicle sped away, continuing southbound on Rt. 267.”

A Greene County Sheriff’s Deputy who was in close proximity to the traffic stop joined the Greenfield officer in the pursuit. The pursuit continued southbound on Rt. 267 and officers with the Brighton Police Department attempted to terminate the pursuit by deploying spike strips.

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Blessing Box

(Continued from A1) They even have freezer bags.

“We have a lady, who is not even a member of our church, but heard about our Blessing Box, and she works for a company that gives out sample boxes of these bags,” Berry said. “She received a bunch of them from work and she brought some of them to us so we put some of them out there. We had another lady who bought a treatment for head lice and never used it. We have it out there as well.”

Other items that can be found inside the Blessing Box include peanut butter, jelly, bag of rice, rice sides, tuna pouches, macaroni and cheese, pasta

sauce, cans of soup, ketchup, canned milk, canned vegetables, Chef Boy-Ardee, chicken broth, etc. All-in-all, it is like a mini-store in a wooden box on legs.

Berry said the box will be left up year-round.

“The only problem we will have will be with the canned goods during extremely hot and cold weather,” she said. “When the temperature gets over 100 degrees or below freezing, we will have to take the canned goods in. However, all of the other items will be available to take – just not the canned goods.”

If, when you come to get something from the Blessing Box and you have something

at home that you know you will never use, bring it with you and drop it off in the box.

Kind of a take-something-leave something deal.

Berry said the church’s reaction was overwhelming to the idea when she presented it.

“Right now, we have a box and a basket overflowing inside the church with food and other items,” she said. “We just don’t have room for it all out in the Blessing Box but as people learn about it and start utilizing it, we will begin refilling it with these items.”

Anyone who would like to contribute with their own donation of non-perishable items may contact any member of Faith Baptist Church to do so.

Crime Stoppers (Continued from A1) Woelfel added that Crime Stoppers is only gathering gift certificates from local businesses in an effort to make sure the money economic activity stays close to home.

“We all live here. We all have to take care of each other,” Woelfel said.

How Crime Stoppers plans to divvy out the certificates is by grouping a variety of certificates in bundles and raffling off those bundles at a cost of $10 a ticket or $25 for three tickets.

The first place bundle will be worth $500, the second place $250 and the third place $100, with additional gift certificates being drawn for after the big prizes have been awarded.

“We’re going to keep drawing until they’re all gone,” Woelfel noted.

Two Rivers Crime

Stoppers was like businesses last year in that they felt the economic impact of the pandemic on their everyday activities.

The four-year-old organization, which is volunteer led and funded by donations and fundraisers, exists mainly to gather anonymous tips from callers that are forwarded to county law enforcement agencies. If an arrest is made from a tip, the tipster is given a cash award dependent on the severity of the crime.

Additionally, the nonprofit organization, though not immediately affiliated with law enforcement, will honor officers for heroic actions that distinguish them among their peers and colleagues, as was the case when they awarded Jersey County Sheriff’s Deputy Justin Decker for rescuing the life of a man in Grafton

back in 2018 who found himself caught up in floodwaters.

Given the fact that COVID impacted their normal operations, Crime Stoppers can sympathize with local businesses who are constantly supporting fundraisers in their community but don’t always see the favor returned.

In light of this, Woelfel noted that this is Crime Stoppers’ way of giving back to the businesses while trying to support itself.

“We didn’t have any fundraisers last year because of the pandemic and neither did a lot of other people, but a lot of organizations ask and never give back, and I think this is our way of giving back,” Woelfel said.

Those with questions or who want to reach out regarding their own businesses can contact Woelfel at 618-781-2862.

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Betty Reno Betty Jane (Roegge) Reno, 84, passed away on Sunday, July 25, 2021 at Calhoun Nursing and Rehab Center in Hardin.

She was a homemaker, devoted farm wife, loving mother, grandmother and great grandmother.

She was born on February 7, 1937 in Arenzville, Illinois , one of five children born to the late Homer and Addie (Waters) Roegge and graduated with the class of 1954 from Jersey Community High School.

On August 11, 1956, she married Ronald Gene Reno at Hope Lutheran Church in Jerseyville. They shared in 50 years of marriage, prior to his death on December 2, 2006.

Betty worked side by side with her husband on the family farm in Greene County and enjoyed tending to her large garden. She found great joy in feeding the wild birds; she had hundred of hummingbirds that visited daily. She and her husband, Ronnie, spent time riding their motorcycles on

their many journeys throughout the Midwest. She was a dedicated mother who enjoyed the time she got to spend with her son, David, as she cared for him for 30 years. She was a wonderful wife and mother.

She was devout in her faith, which she made evident in how she lived her life, and was a member of Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Carrollton.

Her family was truly the light of her life, and she treasured the many memories they were able to create together throughout the years.

Surviving are four children, Cindy Reno of Carrollton; Tony Reno and his significant other, Sandra Shireman, of Eldred; David Reno of Carrollton and Gary Reno and his wife, Tonya, of Bloomington; eight grandchildren, Jeremy Reno and his companion, Whitney Gibson,; Rachel Custer; Cassandra Hillis and her husband, Terry; Ryan Reno and his wife, Allie; Brandon Reno and his wife, Elizabeth; Heather Reno and her com-

panion, Adam Ramsey. Great grandchildren, Olivia and Exlee Reno, Sydney Custer, Peyton Davidson, Etnie Lopez, Ariya Hills, Jordan Hillis, Alex, Beretta, Rosalee, Ella, and step great grandson, Gavin Smith, Peyton and Addison Ramsey and Gloria Reno; as well as her sister and brother in-law, Carol and Jim Pryor.

In addition to her parents and her husband, she was preceded in death by two brothers, Glen and Carl Roegge and a sister, Helen Large.

Memorial visitation will take place from 12 p.m. until time of memorial service at 2 p.m., Friday, August 6, 2021 at Crawford Funeral Home in Jerseyville.

Interment will follow at Kane Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers or plants, memorials may be given to Alzheimer’s Association, in care of Crawford Funeral Home, 1308 State Highway 109, Jerseyville, IL 62052, who has been entrusted with arrangements.

Charles ‘Tom’ Sonneborn Charles “Tom” Sonneborn, 78, of Palmyra, passed away Saturday, July 31, 2021 at his home, surrounded by his family.

Visitation will be from 4 until 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 5th, at the Waverly First Bap-

tist Church. A funeral will be held at the church at 11 a.m. on Friday, the 6th. Family and friends are invited to eat lunch in the fellowship hall following the funeral, and a graveside service will be held at 2 pm at the Oak Wood Cemetery

north of Greenfield. Memorials are suggested to the Waverly First Baptist Church or the American Cancer Society. The Shields-Bishop Funeral Home is assisting the family. Please leave a memory or condolence at shields-bishopfh.com

Norma L. Maggart Norma L. Maggart, 87, of Greenfield, died Friday morning, July 30th at Jerseyville Manor.

A graveside service will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday,

Aug. 5, at the Oak Wood Cemetery north of Greenfield. Memorials are suggested to the Charity Southern Baptist Church or the Clowder House Foundation,

a no-kill animal shelter. The Shields-Bishop Funeral Home in Greenfield is assisting the family. Please leave a memory or condolence at shields-bishopfh.com

Terry L. ‘Frog’ Neff Terry L. “Frog” Neff, 58 of White Hall died Friday, July 30, 2021 at Passavant Area Hospital in Jacksonville.

Graveside funeral services

will be held 12 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021 at Jones Cemetery in White Hall. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. until 11:45 a.m. on Thursday at Airsman-Hires

Funeral Home in White Hall.

Memorials may be made to the family c/o Valerie Neff. Condolences may be left online at www.airsman-hires.com

(Continued from A1) “I called Julia’s mom and asked if it would be okay if she zoomed with one of the authors of the textbook and she said she would love that,” Prunty said.

“So, the three of us zoomed and during that zoom, the author asked her to come and present at this conference on the textbook to the other teachers.”

That conference was supposed to take place in 2020, but, of course, COVID-19 forced the conference to be cancelled.

However, the conference was back on for this year.

“Mark (Schug), the author, asked her to speak at the conference again this year and she accepted,” Prunty said. “There were about 40 teachers up there that asked her questions about what she liked about the book and her future plans and things like that.”

Three of the four authors of the book, all of which are professors, were in attendance at the conference and Prunty said were quite impressed with Janus.

“I was trying to tell Julia that this trip wasn’t necessarily about the book or even her giving her viewpoints on the book – it

was more about the connections she was making for her future,” Prunty said. “These professors are connections for her future.

One of them asked her where she wants to go to college and when she said Liberty, which is in Washington D.C., they are like OMG, because they all have connections there.

“So, it was not just about her talking about her experiences in eighth grade, this is about her getting out there and making the connections and just talking to these people, because they are going to remember her. They were all impressed with her.”

Another author of the book, Tawni Hunt Ferrarini, is in charge of the Economic Department at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, and she was also impressed with Janus.

“She told her to stay in touch with her and that she would help

her with anything she needed and just absolutely loved her,” Prunty said. “She even invited her to the campus just to walk around and talk. I told Julia that this is what this conference was supposed to do for her – give her those connections and show her that what she is doing is amazing.”

For Janus, who just had her first novel published that she had written when she was only 12, this was just another layer to a summer she will never forget.

“I have to admit I was super nervous getting up in front of all of those teachers because I was the only student asked to speak, so I really felt out of place,” she said. “After I while, I began to feel more comfortable answering their questions. I just feel honored to be asked to speak at the conference and it was really nice to meet the authors of the textbook.”

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Our service times are 9:30 a.m. Sunday school, followed by 10:30 a.m. morning worship with nursery service and kids’s church available. Our church is handicap accessible. You are invited to either or both services.

On Sunday, Aug. 1 we had 24 attending Sunday school and 29 attending morning worship.

Remember our men and women in uniform and the leaders of our nation in your prayers. Others to remember include Junia Day, Lois Hart, Judy Caskey, Lloyd Lee Leonard,

Judy and Josh Cannon, Rod and Connie Sturgeon, Judy McCurley, Jessie Reuter Brown, Doug Norris, Sandy Griffin, Shari Selleck, Tracy Holmes, Jennifer Hoots, Norma DePue, Leanne Jefferson, Gus Leonard, Karla Cannon, Delores Cannon, Carol Crocket, David Wells, Joyce Wells Mann, Brenda Pollard, Janice Hardwick, Mandy Friedrich, Chuck Roberts, Brad Fundel, Tara Dawdy, Brenn Killion, Harold Winters, Jean Coates, Blair Noirot and the Neff family.

There are no birthdays to

report this week. Happy anniversary to Rich and Judy Caskey Aug. 11.

We will start to have a kids club Sunday, Aug. 15th at 4:00 p.m. at the fellowship hall. Ladies bible study will be starting up again, Sunday, Aug. 22 at 6:00 p.m. We are planning to have another movie night either Aug. 13 or on Aug. 27 More info will be available next week.

During morning worship, Rich Caskey sang “If You Want to Get to Heaven.”

That’s all for this week.

Have a good week and be a friend to someone in need.

White Hall Calvary Baptist Church news Pastor Carl opened with prayer and announcements.

Brother Brad led our singing.

Message: The Gospel is for Everyone.

Scripture: Galatians 2:1-10 Even though the gospel is for everyone, you cannot do anything to earn your salvation. You cannot be good enough to be saved and not wicked enough to not be saved. You must be saved to go have eternal life with your heavenly father. There is only one body in Christ and there is only one Jesus.

We need to be united togeth-

er. Coming together makes us stronger. There is strength in numbers. God has given the gospel to all. There is only one way to our heavenly father. His mercy, grace and love is for everyone. Our obedience pleases God. God has a special place on calling for each one of us.

To come to truly know Him, you must be in His word daily. Breathe in His word as studying and reading His word. Only responsible (we are) for the obedience to Him. He is responsible for the outcome. Leave a legacy

of His love, power and grace through being obedient to Him. The gospel (His word) can have no effect on us unless we read His word and study it daily. The Word has the power to change your life.

Your life is being watched by many. His commandment is to love one another.

Repent for Jesus is coming soon!

Sunday Morning Worship is 10:30 a.m., Wednesday night prayer meeting at 6 p.m. Come and be a part of God’s work.

Walkerville Baptist Church news This Sunday morning we welcome to our Service, Director of MIssions for Sandy Creek Association, Robert Carruthers. Due to vacations and some sickness our numbers were down but we enjoyed special music and several praises from our congernation. This coming saturday Aug 7 is the 500 men breakfast at the Jerseyville American Legion. Serving is from 9:30a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Then from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30p.m. there is live christian music featuring Serenity SoundOur Servants Hearts and Riven. Bring your lawn chairs and enjoy the day.

You are asked to bring non perishable food items for the local food pantries. Our message was from Mark Chapter 10:46-52. titled “Jesus Stopped” sometimes we get in a hurry and are preoccupied with the things of the world pass by someone in need. Jesus was passing through Jericho on His way to Jerusalem to die for the sins of the world and a blind beggar heard that Jesus was passing nearby and called out to Jesus. The crowd tried to quiet Him, but he continued to cry out to Jesus to be healed. Jesus stopped. asked the man what he wanted. the man said “I

want to see.” Jesus restored his eyesight and he followed Jesus. Jesus stopped for him and He will stop for you if you call upon His name. Our recent prayer requests are Debbie-Vera in the loss of her sister in law- Dan in the loss of his Aunt-Ava to continue to gain strength and healing from surgery. Praise that surgery went well for Karen-Tracy is doing much better-Harold does not have to have surgery. Atterberry Baptist Church in Atterberry, Illinois is searching for a pastor. We invite you to join us each Sunday morning at 10:30 a.m. for worship service. God bless.

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The Sun Will Rise Tomorrow “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?”

Matthew 6:25 NIV

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hy do we worry about minor problems when the sun is still shining, rain waters the earth, and the world goes on exactly as it should? Our personal problems may seem hugely important and overwhelming, but in the grand scheme of things our problems are irrelevant. The sun will continue to rise and set, the earth will revolve around the sun, and your problems will be unnoticed by everybody on the planet except yourself, and perhaps a few others who are closely related to you. It helps to sometimes go outside and look up at the sky to realize just how

miniscule we are. Especially at night, when we can see the stars and realize that the universe is huge beyond imagination, we begin to sense how unimportant our problems are. Consider also that our lives are a brief span, a veritable knife’s edge between the infinite time before our births and the equally boundless time to come after our deaths. When viewed this way, our problems seem to melt away into the infinite ocean of time and space.

– Christopher Simon

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“The Greatest Beer Run Ever”

By BILL HOAGLAND I have read a lot of books about VietNam but this one, entitled “The Greatest Beer Run Ever”, is certainly different from any other book I have read about Viet Nam. The setting for the story mostly takes place in Viet Nam but it is about a lot more than just Viet Nam. It is about long lasting friendships and the loyalties that go with all that. It also happens to be a true story.

Do you know how some of the closest friends you have in life were friends you had as a child or teenager?

And that is true despite the fact that you and those childhood friends have all made significant changes in your respective lives, drifting apart but not really that far apart when you get back to the traits that stay with you your entire life. My theory is that you know those childhood friends better than anyone else because there were no pretenses in those childhood days; you were what you were and your childhood friends saw you unfiltered—at your worst and at your best, night and day. And let’s face it, some things never change despite college, marriage, children and “high-falutin” jobs.

This book basically deals with the loyalties that go along with those childhood friends and the extent to which you might be willing to honor those loyalties later in life. John “Chick” Donohue grew up in New York City. As a child, he and his buddies, all from blue collar families, had humble beginnings and that meant that as kids, they had to invent their own entertainment. That, of course, led to a number of risky, Tom Sawyer type adven-

tures but it also created a bond of friendship that was never broken. Sound familiar?

This story starts in a bar in New York City in November 1967. Donohue is there with lots of lifelong friends, talking about other life-long friends who are now fighting and dying in the jungles of VietNam. The guys in the bar wished there was something they could do to express their appreciation for their friends in Viet Nam and to let them know that they support them, regardless of the anti-war protests going on around the country. After way too many drinks, Donohue, a former Marine, volunteers to go to VietNam as a private citizen and personally deliver to each of his friends a can of their favorite beer from New York and to let them know they are still appreciated. Of course, the next morning he is wondering why in the world he agreed to do this, but he feels the die is cast and he has no choice but to follow through.

Donohue’s ingenuity to get this mission accomplished is absolutely amazing. He had no passport, no visa and no military orders.

All he has is a longshoreman’s union card and a backpack full of canned beer. He doesn’t even have a change of clothes. But he disembarks from a commercial

cargo ship at Qui Nhon and winds up being “in country” for the next three months wandering around in a war zone, following through on his promise to personally deliver beers to his friends who were scattered throughout Viet Nam. In the process of this mission, he misses his connection for his boat ride home and among other thrills, gets to spend some “quality time” in Saigon during the Tet Offensive of 1968.

It is a wonder that he survived.

I am not in the business of critiquing or promoting books but I must agree that this book truly describes “the greatest beer run ever”.

It also has a lot to say about our life-long friendships without being overly philosophical about it.

Note: John “Chick” Donohue and J.T. Molloy is the author of “The Greatest Beer Run Ever”. If you order this book, be sure and get the 2020 edition; an earlier publication omitted several critical chapters.

––––––––––––––––––– Q Bill Hoagland has practiced law in Alton for more than 50 years, but he has spent more than 70 years hunting, fishing and generally being in the great outdoors. His wife, Annie, shares his love of the outdoor life. Much of their spare time is spent on their farm in Calhoun County.

Bill can be reached at billhoagland70@gmail.com.

Outdoor Truths: Gary Miller

Checking Trail Cameras for Hunting I have to admit I can’t stand going too long without checking my trial cameras. This is true especially this time of year. Even though the experts tell me to leave them alone until hunting season, I know I’m probably not even going to hunt some of these spots until the November rut anyway. So, I checked it out.

I figure any buck that has gotten spooked by my presence now, will undoubtedly be dumbstruck early in the rut by a hot doe, forgetting all traces of human activity that I left in August.

So, I’ll wait a few weeks and make my way back to the camera to see if there are any surprises that might cause me to set up a stand early. This is especially helpful for me on my Kentucky property since only one buck is allowed for the whole year. I have two good eight pointers showing up right now but I’m not about to waste my only tag on one of these. They need one and maybe even two more years before they become a Kentucky trophy.

For now, I will keep waiting and watching to see if a bigger deer shows up consistently or to see if I’ll just need to take my

chances that a stray happens to make a visit during November or December.

There have been several years when the tag I bought in September was still in my pocket in January – when the season ended.

For some it was considered wasted. For me, it was not.

That tag didn’t represent a deer but an opportunity for a deer. That’s all a hunting license is. It’s an opportunity to hunt within certain parameters. If I stay within those guidelines, I can harvest anything I want. But there are also other parameters that are self-imposed.

We each have them. They involve anything from the size of deer to the time of year. For instance, I won’t shoot a doe if it has a fawn with it, or I’m not going to shoot a doe if it’s too late in the afternoon. I’m just not interested in being out at 10:00 processing deer. I prefer to be home and even in bed by then.

I find this a great picture of the Christian life and how we are meant to interact with each other. There are some things that are parameters for everyone and then there are some selfimposed convictions that others may not hold. These

s e l f imposed ones are the grey a r e a s where w e sometimes d i s agree. Paul, the writer of most of the New Testament, dealt with how we are to live with fellow Christians who may not see things the same way we do. His overall admonition is to make every effort to live in harmony with each other.

(Romans 14) And there is no doubt these words still ring true. In a world where there is so much disunity, Christians must strive to be the answer to Jesus’ last prayer. “May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me.” (John 17:23 NLT) ––––––––––––––––––– Q Gary has three books that are compilations of the articles he has written for nearly 15 years. He also speaks at game dinners and men’s groups for churches and associations. You can contact him at gary@outdoortruths.org.

It has taken awhile for something to take place that I felt was column worthy, but it finally happened. Last week’s adventure made me think of John Steinbeck and his most famous opus – just for the title of course.

I was heading out to Boyd’s Closet to peruse some of their bargains and pulled out of my driveway and headed out on Cemetery Road when my car started making this awful noise. My first thought was my transmission was going out.

Not wanting to get too far from home, I turned around and headed back when it hit me. While it is still operational, I should just take it to my mechanic. Figured I might as well turn everything off so I turned the AC off and lo and behold the noise stopped.

I figured it was better the AC went out than the transmission, but then I remembered the power was out on my windows so I couldn’t roll them down, so really it was just as bad.

But, I would worry about that later and I continued on to Boyd’s Closet where I forgot about my predicament for the moment.

Upon leaving I thought, what the heck, I’ll try the AC and see if it works and, lo and behold, it does. Then something really disturbing came to mind. If it is not my transmission, and it is not my air conditioner, then chances are that horrible sound I heard was something far more sinister.

You see, I have been seeing several little critters scurrying around in my garage amidst the “hidden treasures” I have stored in there and it occurred to me that the nefarious sound I heard could have been one of them meeting an untimely and gruesome death and I had, unknowingly, committed vehicular homicide.

Once I returned home, I decided to face up to my crime, open the hood and possibly retrieve the mangled corpse of the tiny rodent who lost his life because I wanted a 25-cent bargain.

Even though I’ve had that car for 16 years, I have never been able to open that hood.

I spent 30 minutes trying to

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find the doo-hickey under the hood that unlatches it.

After I got it open, I didn’t know what I was thinking. I guess I thought the poor little guy would have the decency to get chewed up in plain sight so he would be easy to remove.

As we all know – nothing in my life is easy.

I looked and looked and didn’t see a darn thing. I’m thinking to myself – maybe it was just your imagination or something?

However, two days later when I got in the car and turned on the AC, my first assumption was confirmed.

OMG – the smell was so bad I wanted to throw up.

Remember now, I can’t roll my windows down so I’m basically trapped in that tiny, enclosed space literally being gassed to death as long as the AC is on.

My only option was to turn the AC off. Then, once again, not being able to roll the window down, the temperature in the car gets up to about 110 degrees when driving. I’m between a rock and a hard place until that thing dries up and quits smelling.

I even thought that if I opened up the hood of the car in the sun that it would help dry the thing out and make the smell dissipate quicker. I opened it up and didn’t smell a thing under the hood, which confirmed what someone told me – that it was probably in the ductwork inside the dash and they would have to take the dash out to remove it, which would cost a fortune.

The car is 16 years old and while she is a great car, I’m not shelling out a fortune to remove a darn rotting mouse. I might break down and get the motor fixed on the window – again – this will be the third time, which is why I never got it fixed the last time it broke – because

it won’t s t a y fixed.

S h e has been a really Much Ado great car, About though, Nothing and honestly, I BY CARMEN promised ENSINGER her as long as she keeps running, her and I are in it for the long haul. Only major thing I’ve had to have done to her since I’ve had her is have a new starter put in.

Ironically, when that happened, I had just happened to be looking at some new and used cars as my friends had just gotten a new one. I kind of felt like Alex (which is what I named my car) sensed what I was doing and this was her way of retaliating against me. That is when I made the promise that she and I were in it for the long haul.

Well, let’s face it, the old girl is getting up there and I do need to have some kind of idea what is out there when the time comes, so I got online and started looking at some used vehicles.

When she started making the noise, without even thinking, the first words out of my mouth was “hey, I was just looking”.

I felt almost as if she knew I had been looking at other cars and “cheating” on her.

How crazy is that?

All I know is that it seems like every time I look at cars something bad happens.

I thought the starter going out was bad, but this is 100 times worse, by far. How can something that little smell so darn bad for so long.

All I can say is Mickey Mouse is no longer my favorite Disney character!

––––––––––––––––––– Q Carmen Ensinger is a pet-lover and a reporter for Campbell Publications.

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Greenfield passes local control resolution

By CARMEN ENSINGER Greene Prairie Press Greenfield School Board has the distinction of being the first district in the county to pass a resolution affirming local board control of Covid-19 mitigation measures for the 2021-22 school year.

The approval came at the July 26 board meeting after a presentation by parents and members of the group “We Stand For Our Students” who have been advocating for local school districts to make masks optional for students for the upcoming school year.

Greenfield Superintendent summed up the gist of the resolution.

“The big thing is now we have local control, according to them (State), as long as we are following the CDC recommendations,” he said.

“So what we are going to do is we are going to recommend mask wearing and that is what we have done. The CDC updated their original guidance

and have said now that vaccinated people should now wear masks so we have updated our plan to recommend everyone wear masks indoor as well.”

Specifics of the resolution state that: Q Local school boards do not have to require fully vaccinated individuals to wear a mask in school buildings, but may, at its discretion, require vaccinated individuals to wear a mask.

Q Local school boards should recommend unvaccinated individuals to wear a mask in school buildings.

Q Local school boards must emphasize and consider implementing, at is discretion and in conjunction with local public health departments, layered prevention strategies to protect students and staff that are not fully vaccinated.

Q Local school boards must monitor community COVID-19 transmission and vaccination rates to guide its local decisions on layered prevention

strategies during the school year.

Q Local school boards must monitor CDC/IDPH guidance changes on prevention strategies as the school year progresses.

Q The board adopts the ISBE, IDPH and CDC guidance and authorizes the Superintendent to develop and implement COVID-19 mitigation measures, including decisions on the use of face coverings and social distancing practices, in consultation with local public health departments, based on local geographical and student and staff COVID-19 vaccination and transmission data.

The board also approved the Back to School plan for the upcoming year, which Bowman said, regarding the mask issue, said much of the same thing.

“The Back to School plan contains the specifics of everything that we are going to do,” Bowman said. “Masks are still going to be required on buses for everyone because everyone sits so close together. The plan will cover

everything from how we clean the buildings to remote learning.”

Remote learning will only be allowed for those who have a medical excuse.

“Parents will have the option of remote learning for their child only for a medical reason,” Bowman said.

“This option is not preferred by the school as this is not the best educational option. The school would prefer that all students attend in person unless there is a medical need to utilize remote learning. Any student who is on remote learning must have a doctor’s excuse.”

The remote learning decision must be made on a quarterly basis for parents and an educational service will be utilized for any student utilizing the remote learning option.

But the real issue revolves around the issue of making students wearing masks, which Bowman says he doesn’t want to see any more than anyone else.

“Why should we make our little

kids wear a mask from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. when no one else is,” he said. “It is unfortunate that right now we have different people on different sides of the fence on the mask issue because I think, in the end, we all just want this virus to go away as quickly as possible. But I don’t think our kids should be on the front line for this. You look out in our community and you don’t see adults wearing masks, but some of them are wanting our kids to have to wear them all day.”

Even though they passed the resolution for local control, in the end, even the resolution provides that the district must abide by CDC and IDPH guidelines. As long as the guidelines continue to only “recommend” mask usage, the district can choose to make its own decision regarding its students and staff wearing masks. Once that recommendation becomes a mandate, the district has no choice but to require students and staff to wear masks, regardless of the resolution.

Carrollton Pool is THE place to be Before the severe storms and heavy rain hit last week cooling temperatures considerably leading into August, the Carrollton Pool was the place to be to cool off. With temperatures during the early part of the week hovering around 100 degrees, the pool was full all day long with kids and adults alike trying to stay cool.

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Elliot Evans, 2, of Carrollton, has fun in the kiddie pool playing with his squirty toy.

Brayden Tucker, 15, of Carrollton has quite the look on his face as he pulls his legs to him as he prepares to enter the water after a dive off of the diving board.

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Chelsey Castleberry gets ready to hit the ball over the net for her team during a spirited game of volleyball.

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Damon Combs gets ready to launch the ball to the basketball net hoping to score two against his buddies.

Look out below! Kaden Cox gets ready to make a splash down from the diving board.

Cassidy Higgins, 10, of Carrollton, might be able to see the ball better if she opens her eyes she knows she is close to it.

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Carrollton FBC Vacation Bible School The Carrollton First Baptist Church was alive in the evening this week with Vacation Bible School taking place from Sunday through Wednesday of this week. The

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BRANDON E. DOSSETT; CHRISTY K. DOSSETT; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 15 CH 11 NOTICE OF SALE

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Kye Steinacher, on the way through the basement headed outside to play, stops to enjoy some bubbles as part of another age groups craft session.

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Tucker Grinkey, 7, of Greenfield, pushes a pencil through a bag of water as part of an experiment as part of their lesson prior to their craft session Monday night.

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Commonly known as 625 STATE STREET, WHITE HALL, IL 62092.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by FHUWL¿HG IXQGV EDODQFH ZLWKLQ KRXUV E\ FHUWL¿HG IXQGV No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call Ms. Kathryn Bodanza at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Marinosci Law Group, PC, 134 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. (312) 940-8580.

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Power industry faces clean-energy reckoning

By DENNIS GRUBAUGH Greene Prairie Press A battle continues over energy regulation proposals that failed to muster the power needed to make it through the Illinois Legislature this summer.

Neither the utility industry nor clean-power advocates are happy with the present state of talks that fell apart on the last day of the spring session. The unprecedented effort to rework energy policy in Illinois is viewed as critical to the survival of power plants throughout the state, as well as the direction of renewable energy programs.

Left pending are proposals that have the potential to zap the pocketbooks of both consumers and utilities.

The last time policy saw such massive change was in the mid-1990s when customers became interested in shopping for their own electric supply. By 1997, Illinois had approved electric deregulation that kept utilities as regulated delivery companies but allowed them to operate on the free market, which those companies said has done a lot to keep costs reasonable for consumers in the years since.

Patrick Evans, president of the Illinois Energy Association, said the Land of Lincoln has one of the largest electric power industries of any state, representing a large investment.

“We support about one out of every 20 jobs in the state and actually pay about $3.7 billion in taxes and do about $4.6 billion in infrastructure spending here,” Evans said during an appearance in July. Evans stresses that his association is “neutral” on the bill because his association has members on both sides of it.

The association was formed in 1994 to represent member companies before the Illinois General Assembly and the U.S. Congress. Downstate members include Ameren Illinois and Illinois American Water Co. Illinois’ path to the talks that failed this spring began about 2.5 years ago when environmental groups got together with several nonfor-profits from the Chicago area to create the Clean Jobs Coalition. Together, they created a bill, the Clean Jobs Energy Act. It became one of three separate bills aimed at addressing the energy industry’s future in Illinois, with the others coming from the Governor’s Office and the affected unions, but differences over funding, jobs, clean energy goals and the fate of the nuclear fleet caused things to fall apart on the last day of the session, May 31.

The energy industry has incentive to negotiate: Its basic ratemaking framework

will soon expire — for electric utilities at the end of 2022 and for gas utilities at the end of 2023.

The industry says its nuclear plant fleet, which produces cleaner power, is uneconomic in its current state.

After the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan, in 2011, the capital costs of nuclear plants started going up dramatically to address safety concerns.

As a result, the state’s largest competitive generator of power, Exelon, has several facilities in northern Illinois that now lose money on a daily basis.

In combination with that, federal law began giving “priority dispatch” to renewable energy sources, which include the windfarms that began taking hold in northern Illinois in recent years.

About a third of the time, Exelon, in places like the Quad Cities, is paying windfarms to get access to its own transmission lines.

“Our industry couldn’t wait much longer to discuss the policy initiatives that had to be resolved,” Evans said, “because we were going to have major power plant closures, not only in Northern Illinois but Central and Southern Illinois as well.”

A crisis point came in 2020 when Exelon Generation announced it plans to retire its Byron Generating Station and Dresden Generating Station (in Morris), resulting in the loss of four nuclear generation units that supply clean, zero-emissions energy to more than four million homes and businesses in Northern Illinois. Byron will close in September 2021, and Dresden in November 2021.

Exelon says the early retirements are the result of market rules that favor polluting power plants over carbon-free nuclear energy.

Dresden and Byron face revenue shortfalls in the hundreds of millions of dollars because of declining energy prices and market rules that allow fossil fuel plants to underbid clean resources at auctions where they bid on compensation for the power that they will provide at some point in the future.

In Downstate Illinois, most power comes from coal-fired generation; some from natural gas, and some from the Exelon plants.

All of the market-based, coal-fired generation is scheduled to retire before the end of 2027.

Prairie State Energy Campus near Marissa, which is not market based, has private contracts and is the largest coal plant and most modern in the state. It has contracts with co-ops, with municipalities, and with out-of-state entities. It is not scheduled to close but is threatened by new regulation.

Similarly threatened is the CWLP plant in Springfield,

which only services Springfield, Ill., and is not scheduled to close.

The Southern Illinois Power Cooperative Lake of Egypt plant is down to one operating unit, with not much activity underway to extend its life span.

For most of the businesses operating in the Ameren Illinois footprint, most of the power comes from coal-fired power plants that are scheduled to close by the end of 2027. That was not the result of a state policy issue; that was an issue resolved by the Trump administration, which had eased the regulatory burden on plants, allowing them to escape having to implement expensive environmental upgrades if they agreed to close by 2028.

Observers say that even if the Legislature does not pass an energy bill, energy policy will still happen because of market forces that are bringing about change.

Negotiators were close to a deal until the last day of the session, May 31.

Exelon announced it had an agreement on a subsidy for the nuclear fleet with the Governor’s Office for $694 million spread out over five years, which would guarantee that no nuclear power plant in Illinois would close during that time.

The utility industry thought it had a bill before environmental advocates balked because of a lack of commitment by the energy industry to commit on closing plants that relied on fossil fuels. Those groups wanted such plants to start curbing emissions as early as 2024.

Few of them could survive under such restrictions, their operators said.

Energy supporters said the way the bill’s language was being written ignored the economics, and Prairie State, CWLP and all modern, natural-gas-fired power plants were seen as at risk of premature closure.

Additionally, several large, natural gas facilities now in planning or construction could have lost their financing had the bill passed.

Senate President Don Harmon, D-Oak Park, said there was significant concern in the utility industry.

“People could be out of a job Monday if we passed that bill today,” he told reporters in July.

Since the end of May, negotiations have continued but a resolution is not any closer, and other issues have cropped up in the meantime.

Getting agreement between unions and environmental groups is seen as a key.

Late in July, the Citizens Utility Board, a utility watchdog, sent out a notice to members, encouraging them to contact their legislators in an attempt to get progress moving on talks.

“For weeks now, CUB and other members of the Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition

Madison County and continued southbound on Interstate 255. At this time, deputies of the Madison County Sheriff’s Department, Illinois State Police troopers and officers of several municipal law enforcement agencies assisted in the pursuit and deployed more spike strips to disable the suspect vehicle.

The suspect vehicle was able to once again maneuver around the first set of strips and continued southbound on I-255. A second set of strips were deployed on I-255 near the Rt. 162 exit. The suspect vehicle made contact with these strips and continued for

about a mile on Rt. 162 before becoming disabled.

The driver and passengers exited the vehicle and all fled on foot.

The vehicle was impounded and towed back to Greene County where it is being held for further investigation.

A search of the vehicle resulted in the discovery of a semi-automatic rifle, shell casings and ammunition. Several handguns were located near the location where the suspects were seen fleeing on foot from. The identities of the suspects was not known to law enforcement at the time of the impoundment of the vehicle.

Pursuit (Continued from A1) However, the fleeing vehicle was able to maneuver around the strips and continue southbound. The driver of the fleeing vehicle, at one point during the pursuit, attempted to collide with an Illinois State Police trooper squad car which had joined the pursuit.

“The pursuing officers were notified that the vehicle they were pursuing was a suspect vehicle of a shooting incident that had recently occurred in Jacksonville earlier that evening and that the occupants may be armed and dangerous,” McMillen said.

The pursuit then entered

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have been trying to hammer out a strong, pro-consumer energy bill before the end of summer. The fight is still very much alive. We want to hold utilities accountable and secure clean and affordable energy in Illinois,” the agency said.

The taxpayer cost of the bill has been estimated at $1 billion in its first year and about $1.8 billion over the first 10 years.

About half the cost would be for renewable energy – some $360 million to $380 million, but not covering the utility industry’s concern of replacing coal- and nature gas-fired plants that are scheduled to go off line.

The rest of the renewable energy subsidy is comprised of distributive generation, which is made up of rooftop energy, small batteries for business and home use; and about $800 million overall ($90 million in the first year) for a program where solar panels and battery storage would be installed at retiring coal plants.

The Exelon nuclear fleet subsidy represents about 14 percent of the overall cost.

Another $240 million or so would go toward social programs related to the energy industry — such as job training and equity programs.

Equity provisions, renewable energy investments, nuclear subsidies and lowincome assistance programs, among other provisions in the energy bill, are largely funded through added charges to ratepayer bills. Cost breakdowns in some of the past public bill language show added costs of $3-4 monthly for the average residential ratepayer.

A coalition of business groups and labor unions held a news conference in late June questioning the transparency of ongoing energy negotiations.

Illinois Manufacturers’ Association President and CEO Mark Denzler said businesses fear there may be a cost shift in future drafts of the bill, charging businesses $12 more monthly, with industrial charges increasing

possibly over $1,900 monthly.

He said the governor’s office failed to provide rate cost estimates, studies on reliability, or the impact on job loss from companies asked to pay significantly higher electric bills.

In response to that, Jordan Abudayyeh, a spokesperson for Gov. Pritzker, said the governor has been clear that any energy legislation must address climate change by making meaningful progress toward moving Illinois to a renewable energy future while also protecting consumers.

It’s still unclear if, or when, a finalized version of the energy bill will be reached, but many equity advocates are cautiously optimistic that a compromise will be made before the end of the calendar year, while businesses groups are calling on the governor to slow the process down.

Energy industry advocates believe that consumer costs go up every time a utility takes a generator off line.

According to a 2018 study

by PJM, a regional transmission organization that coordinates the movement of wholesale electricity in all or parts of 13 states and the

District of Columbia, closing down coal-fired operations is costly to the consumer.

The study concludes that in northern Illinois for every thousand megawatts of coal you take off line, the price of power goes up by 40 to 50 cents per megawatt hour.

Additionally, no one has studied what impact that closing the entire fossil fuel generation system could have on costs as a result, analysts say.

Whether Illinois would have to turn to surrounding states for power is also a question, since those states are also lacking in supply or have intermittent capacity and would always serve their own states’ needs first. The costs utilities pay for that power could also skyrocket.

Ironically, if the plants in Illinois close, utility officials say they would turn to outside coal-fired sources for power generation, and they would have to pay more for it.

The chances of building more nuclear plant capacity in Illinois are seen as unlikely because previously approved deregulation makes it impossible to guarantee a builder would get back its costs.

Q Some information contributed by Capitol News Illinois.

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FARMLAND REAL ESTATE AUCTION 156 Acres m/l with 154 Tillable Heirs of Gene & Dorothy Beiser will sell at public auction the following parcels of real estate Saturday August 28, 2021 at 10am. Real estate is located in sections 16 & 21 in Mississippi township in Jersey County, Illinois. Auction will be held onsite which is 4.5 miles south of Jerseyville, Illinois on Route 109 to McClusky Road then east ¼ mile to the farm location.

Tract 1: 56.5 acres m/l with approximately 56 tillable acres.

This tract has a large concrete silo elevator.

Tract 2: 55 acres m/l with approximately 54 tillable acres. This tract is subject to a 20ft. roadway easement thru the property.

Tract 3: 27 acres m/l with approximately 26 tillable acres. This tract contains metal grain bins, leg and dump pit.

Tract 4: 18 acres m/l tillable cropland Terms of sale: Tracts 1, 2, & 3 will be sold individually and then offered as a single unit with the highest bid to prevail. Tract 4 will sell to the highest bidder and will not be combined with any other tracts. Buyer will enter into a real estate contract and pay 10% of purchase price day of sale with balance due in 30 days at closing. For a buyers packet with more information, maps, contract & etc. contact Gary Kruger at 618-535-5419, Darin Beiser at 618-779-7889 or Buck Reeves at 217-2421709. Owners have the right to accept or reject any and all bids.

Warranties: No warranties expressed or implied shall be given as to the condition of the land. No representations are being made by Sellers or their representatives as to the condition of the land. No warranty is granted as to the number of acres and the real estate will be sold without a survey.

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Greene County police and traffic

The following police reports were filed between July 23 and July 29. These reports are public information and are obtained from the Greene County Circuit Clerk’s office. All individuals have been arrested and charged, or cited in the case of traffic violations.

All are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

The following individuals were charged with a traffic violation: Darwent, Amy Jo, dob 12-26-1965, improper traffic lane usage.

Henson, Ayden J., dob 01-11-2002, operate uninsured motor vehicle.

Maxon, Robert G. Jr., dob 03-23-1989, operate uninsured motor vehicle.

Farris, Amos M., dob 06-17-1984, operate unin-

sured motor vehicle.

Ruyle, Kennedy N., dob 02-05-2002, driving 21-25 mph above limit.

Bratsch, Tiffany N., dob 11-26-1992, operate uninsured motor vehicle.

Carrigan, Amanda L., dob 08-07-1991, transportation/carry alcohol liquor/ passenger.

Adams, John D., dob 02-25-1983, driving on revoked license, transportation/carry alcohol liquor/ driver.

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Due to a recent increase in COVID-19 cases, Secretary of State Jesse White, announced that Driver Services facilities, Secretary of State offices and the Illinois State Capitol Building will require all employees and customers to wear a mask beginning Monday, Aug. 2.

White stressed that it is imperative for his facilities to remain open to serve the public to reduce the heavy customer volume caused by the COVID-19 pandemic over the last year.

White said reinstating the mask policy for employees and customers will help achieve this goal.

White is reminding customers that his office extended expiration dates for driver’s licenses and ID cards until Jan. 1, 2022.

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until Jan. 1, 2022, so customers do not need to rush into a facility.

White continues to urge the public to consider using online services when possible instead of visiting a facility due to heavy customer volume. White has greatly expanded online services and encourages the public to visit his office’s website at www. cyberdriveillinois.com.

Many transactions can be conducted online, including the purchase of license plate stickers, obtaining a duplicate driver’s license or ID card, and renewing driver’s licenses and ID cards, including REAL IDs, for those who are eligible.

As a reminder, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has extended the federal REAL ID deadline to May 3, 2023.

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By CONNOR ASHLOCK Greene Prairie Press News surfaced last week on Facebook of an alleged attempted kidnapping that occurred in Kampsville.

Information regarding the post spread throughout Calhoun County and bled into the neighboring counties of Greene and Jersey, but according to Calhoun County Sheriff Bill Heffington, this particular incident

was unfounded.

According to Heffington, an offduty officer happened to be in the area where the incident was alleged to have taken place and saw a different scenario play out than what was initially reported throughout the region.

According to Heffington, the kids who were involved in the situation did speak to an individual, but they exaggerated their report a bit.

Once the sheriff’s office did a

little digging, it was discovered that the claim of an attempted kidnapping was not accurate.

Nevertheless, the Calhoun, Greene and Jersey County area does see quite a number of interesting characters make their way into local communities, so families and neighborhoods should never let their guard down.

“They should still pay attention, because you can’t say it won’t happen in the future— you just never know,” Heffington said.

Hummingbird Festival at the Engel Farm The Engel Farm will be the site of a Hummingbird Festival again this year. It is scheduled for Sunday afternoon, Aug. 8, 1 to 4 p.m. Although the number of birds typically returning to Illinois in late April and early May was disappointingly low, near- or abovenormal numbers are now present and should put on a good show for festival visitors.

Vernon Kleen, a licensed hummingbird bander and President of the Lincoln Land Association of Bird Banders, will begin the festival at 1 p.m. with a short

discussion about hummingbirds and explain why they are banded. After the discussion, birds will be captured, banded and promptly released.

The festival is a family event that persons of all ages will enjoy. Although there is no admission or participation fee, donations would be appreciated.

Visitors who register to “adopt” birds will receive an attractive, signed certificate, may be able (if enough birds are captured) to release the bird they adopted, and will be notified if their bird is ever

TAX DEED NO. 18TX29P15 FILED 7-15-21

TAX DEED NO. 18TX29P16 FILED 7-15-21

RONALD KALLAL, CYNTHIA KALLAL, BOBBY R. ELLIOT, DEBRA A. ELLIOT, GREENE COUNTY CLERK, UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES, AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD DELINQUENT TAXES. 7KLV LV 1RWLFH RI WKH ¿OLQJ RI WKH 3HWLWRQ IRU WD[ GHHG RQ WKH IROORZLQJ SURSHUW\ /HJDO 'HVFULSWLRQ DQG RU 3LQ : -& 37 6: 1( 1: 2Q 'HFHPEHU DW $ 0 3HWLWLRQHU LQWHQGV WR PDNH DSSOLFDWLRQ IRU D 7$; '((' 5HDO (VWDWH ZDV VROG RQ 1RYHPEHU IRU JHQHUDO WD[HV RI WKH \HDU RI 7KH SHULRG RI 5HGHPSWLRQ ZLOO H[SLUH RQ 1RYHPEHU DW 3 0

ALICE H. PEGRAM 0/0 DEBRA RETHERFORD, GREENE COUNTY CLERK, UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES, AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD DELINQUENT TAXES. 7KLV LV 1RWLFH RI WKH ¿OLQJ RI WKH 3HWLWLRQ IRU WD[ GHHG RQ WKH IROORZLQJ SURSHUW\ /HJDO 'HVFULSWLRQ DQG RU 3LQ )& -& 6+$521 &$/9,1 & MORROWS ADD. 2Q 'HFHPEHU DW $ 0 3HWLWRQHU LQWHQGV WR PDNH DSSOLFDWLRQ IRU D 7$; '((' 5HDO (VWDWH ZDV VROG RQ 1RYHPEHU IRU JHQHUDO WD[HV RI WKH \HDU RI 7KH SHULRG RI 5HGHPSWLRQ ZLOO H[SLUH RQ 1RYHPEHU DW 3 0

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EXCEPT any interest in the PAUL N. CRESSY, SUSAN coal, oil, gas and other minerals E. CRESSY, UNKNOWN underlying the land which have OWNERS AND NONRECORD been heretofore conveyed or reCLAIMANTS, served in prior conveyances, and Defendants. all rights and easements in favor No. 2020CH10 of the estate of said coal, oil, gas NOTICE OF SALE and other minerals, if any.

(D) A description of the imPUBLIC NOTICE is hereby provements on the real estate given that pursuant to a judgis: Single family residence. ment of foreclosure entered by (E) The real estate may be the court on the Complaint for inspected prior to sale at the folForeclosure in the above-entilowing times: Not applicable. tled cause, the property here(F) The time and place of the inafter described or so much sale are: 10:00 a.m. on August WKHUHRI DV VKDOO EH VXI¿FLHQW WR LQ WKH /REE\ RI WKH satisfy said judgment, will be Greene County Courthouse, sold to the highest bidder.

1RUWK 0DLQ 6WUHHW &DUUROO(A) The name, address and ton, IL telephone number of the person (G) The terms of the sale to contact for information reare: Cash in hand on day of garding the real estate is: First sale. Plaintiff may credit bid at Bankers Trust Company, N.A., the sale. The successful bidder 2201 Wabash Avenue, SpringZLOO UHFHLYH D &HUWL¿FDWH RI 3XU¿HOG ,/ 7HOHSKRQH chase following the sale and a

6KHULII¶V 'HHG XSRQ FRQ¿UPD(B) The common address tion of the sale by the Circuit and other common description, Court of Greene County, Illinois. if any, of the real estate is: 221 (H) Title will be conveyed 1( 6WUHHW 5RRGKRXVH ,/ subject to real estate taxes for (C) The legal description of 2020 and subsequent years the real estate is: and special assessments, if Part of the Northwest QuarDQ\ WR EXLOGLQJ UHVWULFWLRQV DQG ter of the Northwest Quarter of UHVWULFWLYH FRYHQDQWV RI UHFRUG Section 12, Township 12 North, to easements of record or in Range 12 West of the Third SODFH WR ULJKWV RI ZD\ IRU URDGV Principal Meridian, Greene VWUHHWV DQG KLJKZD\V WR ULJKWV County, Illinois, being described of tenants in possession, if any. as follows: Commencing at a Sale is subject to approval of stone found at the Northeast the Circuit Court of Greene corner of Section 12 and thence County, Illinois. Any real estate on an assumed bearing of North transfer tax which may be due 90 degrees 00 minutes 00 secas a result of the sale shall be onds West, along the North line paid by the purchaser. of said Section 12, distance RI IHHW WR DQ LURQ SLQ BROWN, HAY & STEPHENS, LLP VHW IRU WKH SRLQW RI EHJLQQLQJ (PPHW $ )DLU¿HOG thence leaving said North line, 5HJLVWUDWLRQ 1R 6RXWK GHJUHHV PLQXWHV 6 WK 6WUHHW ± 6XLWH VHFRQGV (DVW D GLVWDQFH 3 2 %R[ RI IHHW WR DQ LURQ SLQ 6SULQJ¿HOG ,/ VHW WKHQFH 6RXWK GHJUHHV

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recaptured. Every year more than a hundred people who have adopted birds are notified that the birds they adopted at past Illinois festivals were recaptured.

Those wishing to “adopt” birds are encouraged to provide address labels to reduce their waiting time in the registration line.

Although this is an outdoor event, current COVID-19 protocols will be expected.

If you enjoy hummingbirds, consider joining the fun and plan on visiting the festival at the Engel farm.

It should be a rewarding and entertaining experi-

TAX DEED NO. 18TX29P14 FILED 7-15-21 STEVEN NEFF, GREENE COUNTY CLERK, UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES, AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS DEFENDANTS, THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD DELINQUENT TAXES. 7KLV LV 1RWLFH RI WKH ¿OLQJ RI WKH 3HWLWLRQ IRU WD[ GHHG RQ WKH IROORZLQJ GHVFULEHG SURSHUW\ /HJDO 'HVFULSWLRQ DQG RU 3LQ )5 -& 1: &25 1: 2Q 'HFHPEHU DW $ 0 3HWLWLRQHU LQWHQGV WR PDNH DSSOLFDWLRQ IRU D 7$; '((' 5HDO (VWDWH ZDV VROG RQ 1RYHPEHU IRU JHQHUDO WD[HV RI WKH \HDU RI 7KH SHULRG RI 5HGHPSWLRQ ZLOO H[SLUH RQ 1RYHPEHU DW 3 0 6WHYHQ 5 &DVWOHPDQ

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 7TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF GREENE CARROLLTON, ILLINOIS REVOLVE CAPITAL GROUP, LLC; Plaintiff, vs.

BRANDON E. DOSSETT; CHRISTY K. DOSSETT; UNKNOWN OWNERS AND NON RECORD CLAIMANTS; Defendants, 15 CH 11 NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above entitled cause the Sheriff of Greene County will on Wednesday, September 1, 2021, at the KRXU RI D P LQ WKH ¿UVW ÀRRU KDOOZD\ *UHHQH &RXQW\ Courthouse, 519 North Main Street, Carrollton, Illinois, sell to the highest bidder for cash, the following described mortgaged real estate: LOTS TWO HUNDRED SIXTY-TWO (262), TWO HUNDRED SIXTY-THREE (263) AND TWO HUNDRED SIXTY-FOUR (264) IN MAPLE HEIGHTS ADDITION TO THE CITY OF WHITE HALL, ACCORDING TO THE RECORDED PLAT THEREOF, AND SITUATED IN SAID CITY OF WHITE HALL, GREENE COUNTY, ILLINOIS. P.I.N. 11-53-36102-004.

Commonly known as 625 STATE STREET, WHITE HALL, IL 62092.

The improvement on the property consists of a single family residence. If the subject mortgaged real estate is a unit of a common interest community, the purchaser of the unit other than a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by subsection (g-1) of Section 18.5 of the Condominium Property Act. Sale terms: 10% down by FHUWL¿HG IXQGV EDODQFH ZLWKLQ KRXUV E\ FHUWL¿HG IXQGV No refunds. The property will NOT be open for inspection.

For information call Ms. Kathryn Bodanza at Plaintiff’s Attorney, Marinosci Law Group, PC, 134 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602. (312) 940-8580.

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ence. How often will you have a real opportunity to have a live hummingbird in your hand? The festival may be reached by taking Rt. 267 south out of Jacksonville, turning east onto 2700N (in Greene County), and going 2.2 miles to the entrance of Engel’s long driveway on the left. Festival signs will be posted along the way and at the driveway. For more details, call 217 -3209006.

TAX DEED NO. 18TX29P17 FILED 7-15-21 KRISTEN HOLMES %, KEVIN BURTON, LINDA BURTON, GREENE COUNTY CLERK, UNKNOWN OWNERS OR PARTIES, AND NON-RECORD CLAIMANTS, THIS PROPERTY HAS BEEN SOLD DELINQUENT TAXES. This is Notice of the filing of the Petiton for tax deed on the following property: Legal Description and /or Pin 13-60-23-10 10GF JC 536 23-11-11 PT N PT SW SE. On December 2 at 9:00 A.M., the Petitoner intends to make application for a TAX DEED. Real Estate was sold on November 13, 2018 for general taxes of the year of 2017. The period of Redemption will expire on November 13, 2021 at 4:00 P.M. Steven R. Castleman 7.21, 7.28, 8.04

Construction Bids White Hall Township will be accepting sealed bid proposDOV IURP TXDOL¿HG FRQWUDFWRUV for updates/repairs on the :KLWH +DOO 7RZQVKLS 2I¿FH building. Sealed bids will be accepted from July 15, 2021 through August 6, 2021. All interested bidders may contact Township Trustee Paul Fansler at 217-473-7644 to set up an appointment to view the property. Project includes: vinyl siding installation (includLQJ VRI¿W DQG IDVFLD SDUWLDO gutter replacement, door and window replacement, and interior ceiling repair.

Sealed bids may be submitted to Township Trustee Paul Fansler, Road Commissioner Eric Cox, or Township Clerk Tiffany Rogers by August 6, 2021. Bids will be opened and discussed on August 9, 2021 at a regular Township Board meeting. White Hall Township reserves the right to reject any or all bids.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT GREENE COUNTY, ILLINOIS ESTATE OF HARRIETT J. PRINTY, DECEASED. NO. 2021-P-27 NOTICE OF CLAIM DATE Notice is given of the death of HARRIETT J. PRINTY of Manchester, Illinois. Letters RI 2I¿FH ZHUH LVVXHG RQ -XO\ 16, 2021, to James W. Fisher, 0DOODUG 'ULYH 'RZQV ,OOLQRLV ZKRVH DWWRUQH\ LV *LOOLQJKDP /DZ 2I¿FH Richard N. Gillingham, 220 Sixth Street, Carrollton, Illinois, 62016.

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