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Donations from overdue fines will benefit local food drive By EMILY K. COLEMAN ecoleman@shawmedia.com
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Members of the Concerned Student 1950 and the Legion of Black Collegians link arms Saturday during a protest in Mark Twain Dining Hall at the University of Missouri campus in Columbia, Mo.
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Students join push for president’s removal By SUMMER BALLENTINE and ALAN SCHER ZAGIER The Associated Press
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Student protests over racial incidents on the University of Missouri campus escalated over the weekend when at least 30 black football players announced they will not participate in team activities until the school’s president is removed. President Tim Wolfe gave no indication he has Tim Wolfe any intention of stepping down, but agreed in a statement Sunday that “change is needed” and said the university is working to draw up a plan by April to promote diversity and tolerance. For months, black student groups have complained of racial
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CRYSTAL LAKE – Fines incurred by Crystal Lake Public Library patrons can be swept away with a good deed this month. The library is continuing its Pay It Forward program, in which cardholders donate half the value of their overdue fines and get the other half forgiven. The program was established in 2008 as an alternative to the food for fines drive the library had previously held, library spokeswoman Linda Price-Natter said. The library had run out of places to store the food it was collecting for the Crystal Lake Food Pantry. The cash donations also worked better for the food pantry because they have greater buying power with money, said Bill
Eich, the food pantry’s president. For every dollar the food pantry receives, it can purchase $8 worth of food. In the six drives the library has held since 2008, $37,300 has been raised for the food pantry, Price-Natter said. The program is a part of the Crystal Lake Community Harvest, a collaboration of the Crystal Lake Chamber and the Crystal Lake Food Pantry in its 25th year to collect food and dollars to fund food donations to local families over the winter, according to the chamber. Last year, the campaign raised 61,000 pounds of food and $26,637 in donations. And while that sounds like a lot of food, it’s actually about the amount the pantry distributes in
slurs and other slights on the overwhelmingly white, 35,000-student campus. Their frustrations flared during the homecoming parade Oct. 10 when black protesters blocked Wolfe’s car and he would not get out and talk to them. They were removed by police. On Saturday night, black members of the football team joined the outcry. The athletes did not say explicitly whether they would boycott the team’s three remaining games this season. The Tigers’ next game is Saturday against BYU at Arrowhead Stadium, the home of the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs, and canceling it could cost the school more than $1 million. “The athletes of color on the University of Missouri football
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Employers, health care providers trying to make care available despite increasing cost By HANNAH PROKOP hprokop@shawmedia.com
A conference Suzanne Hoban – executive director of Family Health Partnership Clinic – recently attended with more than 38 states represented by leaders of free and charitable clinics overwhelmingly centered around one discussion, Hoban said: high deductibles. Deductibles have increased significantly, showed a study from the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on national health issues. Individual employee deductibles have risen from an average of about $900 in 2010 to $1,300 in 2015, despite earnings remaining flat, according to the study. Having high out-of-pocket costs often can delay care employees and their families need, and Hoban said the number one reason people delay care is because they can’t afford it. High deductibles always have been a problem for patients, Hoban said, “but now we have this whole new group of consumers who, terrific, can afford the premiums because of their tax credit, but all of a sudden they’re hit
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All of a sudden they’re hit with these deductibles they have to pay before the policy kicks in, so [being able to afford premiums] has changed.” Suzanne Hoban
Family Health Partnership Clinic executive director
with these deductibles they have to pay before the policy kicks in, so that has changed.” The mission of the Family Health Partnership Clinic is to provide care to the uninsured
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