Thursday May 19, 2016 Vol. 4, No. 12
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Elmwood awards Maple Avenue bid By BILL KNIGHT
ELMWOOD – The City Council on Tuesday night took two major steps in the long-delayed work on four blocks of Maple Avenue between North Magnolia Street/Illinois Route 78 and Fairground Way, awarding a bid and arranging financing for the $450,000 project. After opening four sealed bids, the Council selected the $306,525.16 offer from United Contractors Midwest (UCM) from For The Weekly Post
Three Chilly Saints gone, So go plant!
Tremont. “The bids were slightly higher than what we’d anticipated,” said Alderman Bryan Davis, who proposed accepting UCM’s bid. Also, “we are going to try to value-engineer it and could be bringing [the overall cost] down.” Some work and expense will come from City workers. The renovation will include grading, tilling and resurfacing the street; adding a sidewalk on its north side; widening the street; im-
proving drainage; and paving entrances to driveways, according to engineer Patrick Meyer. Also offering bids were Illinois Civil Contractors, Inc. (ICCI), P.A. Atherton Contractors, and Tazewell County Asphalt. The City will pay for the project through a combination of Tax Increment Financing funds (which are maintained separately from General Revenue), City Treasurer Harold Jehle said on May 3, and a $350,000 loan also approved TuesContinued on Page 2
A major construction project is slated for Maple Avenue in Elmwood. Photo by Jeff Lampe.
THEY WILL ALL BE HOME SOON!
By RON DIETER
If you follow horticultural folklore you may know that the cold spell we had this past weekend was the work of the Three Chilly Saints. In medieval France and England, farmers noticed that a late spring frost often occurred around the feast days of St. Mamertus, St. Pancras and St. Servatius, May 11, 12 and 13. So they postponed planting coldsensitive crops until the latter half of May to avoid the wrath of these “Chilly Saints.” With those feast days behind us now, it’s time to start planting warm-weather vegetables, such as tomatoes, green beans, cucumbers and melons. The most popular of these, of course, is the tomato. The tomato is really not a vegetable at all, botanically speaking, but a fruit because it contains seeds. Native to the For The Weekly Post
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Libel suit proceeds vs. Schock, LaHood By BILL KNIGHT
EDWARDS – A lawsuit that alleges the area’s current and former Congressmen libeled Edwards Democrat Dick Burns on Friday had its first case management hearing after the case was filed more than seven months ago. Judge Jodi Schock Hoos plans to issue an order giving U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood and his predecessor, Aaron Schock, a limited amount of time to respond to the complaint that they defamed Burns. Burns’ attorney Christopher Ryan said no defendant has answered the initial complaint, which says a letter signed by For The Weekly Post
Youngsters enjoy one of their last days of recess at Elmwood Elementary School. After today, there are only three days of school left for Elmwood students. Photo by Jeff Lampe.
Local schools wrapping up the year
Elmwood and Farmington high schools celebrated high school graduation on Sunday (May 15), and here are schools’ schedules for the rest of the school year: • Brimfield Graduation is at 3 p.m. Sunday (May 22) and the last day of school is May 31. • Elmwood is having an 8th grade promotion program today (May 19) at 11 a.m. (with Junior High awards from 9-10:30 a.m.), and
the last day of school is May 25. • Farmington already celebrated 8th graders’ promotion to high school on Wednesday (May 18), when the district also had its last day of school. • Princeville Graduation is at 3 p.m. May 29 and the last day of school is June 6. • Williamsfield Graduation is 2 p.m. Sunday (May 22) and May 25 is the last day of school.
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day. Two banks made loan offers, but Farmers State Bank’s 2.65-percent interest rate and $50 closing cost was lower than Elmwood Community Bank/Morton Community Bank. Meanwhile, a public meeting for Maple Avenue residents is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. today (May 19) outdoors in the 200 block of Maple Avenue. In other business, the Council unanimously voted to proceed with a court action to have the property at 309 W. Fremont declared abandoned. Owned by Bill Clayton, the property has had chronic mainte-
nance problems for years. “In my opinion, this is the best way to cure the problem,” said Elmwood Economic Development Officer Dick Taylor. “This is the best course of action for the City.” If the action succeeds, the City would take possession of the property and either repair or demolish it. Other Council action Tuesday included: • picking Homefield Energy to supply power to the City’s nine properties at a cost of 4.813 cents per kilowatt hour in a one-year agreement that Alderman Jared
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Howerton estimated will save the City more than $5,000 a year compared to current payments to Ameren; • appointing Andrew Almasi to fill the unexpired term of Ward 2 Alderman Adam Rue, who resigned. To accept the position, Almasi resigned as the City’s Impoundment Hearing Officer; • supporting Mayor J.D. Hulslander, as Liquor Commissioner, granting a special permit for the Elmwood leg of Spoon River Drive to offer a wine-tasting and sampling booth in Central Park during the October event.
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s Harvest Home – Harvest Home Festival Dinner today (May 19) from 4:30-7 p.m.at Yates City Community Center. Fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, veggie, roll and dessert. Dine in or carry out. s Farmer’s Market – Elmwood Farmer’s Market is Friday (May 20) from 4-6:30 p.m. on the square. s Open House – Foster Pet Outreach open house Saturday (May 21) 11 a.m.- 3 p.m. at 10206 W. Dubois Rd. in Edwards. Ribbon-cutting ceremony starts at 11 a.m. Tour the new building, sample hors d’oeuvres and more. Call (309) 682-1122.
This Week’s Events
s Summer Reading – Salem Township Library Summer reading program is May 25 to June 29 in Yates City. Games, programs, snacks, crafts, prizes and more. Call (309) 358-1678. s Clean-Up – Elmwood Clean-Up day is May 25-26. Normal household items allowed. No electronics, appliances or yard waste. Put out items with regular garbage on normal trash day.
s Ladies Craft – Craft Night for ladies 18 and older is today (May 19) at 6:30 p.m. at Morrison and Mary Wiley Library in Elmwood. Teacup topiaries will be made. Call (309) 742-2431 to register. s Free Bread – Free bread available at Elmwood Methodist Church Friday (May 20) at 10:30 a.m. Future Events s Fiber Event – Fiber Arts May s School Banquet – Yates City all Event is Saturday (May 21) at Chillicothe Public Library from 9 a.m.- 4 p.m. school banquet is May 28 at Yates City Community Center. All Register at bishophillwho attended Yates City fiberguild.org or (309) Publicize Your Event Schools welcome. Send 472-7085. Call us at (309) 741-9790 reservations, checks for s Maker Mania – or email information about $15 to Yates City Maker Mania event at your upcoming event to Alumni Assoc., Box Brimfield Public Library news@wklypost.com. 111, Yates City 61572. Saturday (May 21) from Deadline is May 20. 10 a.m.- 2 p.m. s Plant Sale – Peoria s Guest Speaker – Todd Hastings is County Soil and Water Conservation guest speaker Sunday (May 22) at CrossDistrict plant sale now to May 31. Variroads Assembly of God Church for the 10:30 a.m. service. A potluck will follow ety of native plants and grasses available for purchase. Call (309) 671-7040 Ext. 3. the service. All are welcome. s Bus Trip – Peoria Evening Garden s Mushroom Contest – Elmwood InClub bus trip is June 25. Trip is to The surance Agency mushroom contest is now through Sunday (May 22). Heaviest Dubuque Arboretum and Botanical Garden. Cost is $45. Contact (309) 657-422 morel wins $25, bring in mushrooms to for itinerary. EIA to win. Call (309) 742-2141.
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One of my least favorite things to do when I was working for a pest control company was getting rid of rats. Rats are filthy, sneaky and downright mean little critters and they always made my life miserable. I had more than a few close, personal encounters with the little beasts on which I can base my opinions. We got a call once from a bank in a small town Jon north of GalesGALLAGHER burg. It seems that each morning the employees would come in to work and find their breakroom in shambles. Cabinets had been open and ransacked, packs of sugar opened and strewn across counters and floors, and any foodstuffs left out in the open were devoured. This was happening every morning and it didn’t take a lot of detective work to figure out that they were being visited overnight by at least one rat. The bank itself was a beautiful building with plush carpeting, shiny décor, and all the amenities to make sure that their customers knew they were successful. The basement, however, was exactly the opposite. It was a catchall, with old desks, boxes of records, machines that no longer worked, and assorted other junk, all haphazardly thrown into a
couple of rooms, and covered with a half inch of dust. It was also home to a colony of rats. I set out bait that would attract the rats, and hopefully keep them in enough food to keep them from exploring the kitchenette area of the bank. I told the bank president that it’d probably be a week or so before everything took effect. After that, he was going to have to send someone down to the dungeon and straighten it out because they were making it a comfortable home for the unwanted rodents. There was not a surge of volunteers among employees to clean up the place. While I was going about my business, setting bait in the kitchen area (in case they didn’t care for the stuff I put out downstairs), one of the tellers asked how the rats could get in. I told her there were a variety of ways and that we had one case where the rats would swim through the sewer, and come right up out of the toilets. About two weeks after setting out the bait, the president of the bank called me. The tellers wanted to know how soon they could start using the bank’s bathroom again. After hearing that rats could come up out of the toilet, none of the tellers were interested in using the bank’s facilities any more. If they had to go, they’d trek down the street to the gas station instead.
Another of my “favorite” encounters (maybe I should use the word “memorable” instead), came one afternoon while I was in Farmington. Since this was the mid-1980s, we didn’t have cell phones, but we did have pagers. I only carried one because my wife was pregnant with our first child and if my beeper went off, I intended to drop what I was doing and head for home. My beeper went off. It wasn’t my wife. It was my secretary. She’d called my wife and got the pager’s number because we had an emergency back in Galesburg. During the lunch hour, rats had managed to chew through the suspended ceiling of the crowded (not for long) dining room in a popular Galesburg restaurant. Said rat discovered the law of gravity and fell through the ceiling onto a table. After the initial shriek of the people at the table where the rat landed, the rest of the dining room emptied in what had to be record time. The manager of the restaurant wanted me there and he wanted me 10 minutes ago. I flew back to Galesburg as fast as my little Subaru would go and found an empty restaurant with most of the employees standing outside, each wielding some sort of makeshift weapon. Most had brooms or mops, while one had a paring knife (like THAT was going
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Slow down for Yates City’s remaining squirrels
To the Editor: We used to have about 10 or 12 squirrels in the central park in Yates City. However, since the traffic in town flies through here about 4550 mph in a 30-35 mph speed zone, most of the time the drivers wouldn’t have time – even if they tried – to slow down to keep from running squirrels
over. Now we are down to about three squirrels that will probably soon be murdered because of the inconsiderate people that speed through town. These drivers don’t seem to worry about the police or they know when they are on duty, as they don’t slow
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YATES CITY – Two local people facing ongoing complaints of neglecting animals last month now have been charged with assorted offenses, but none thus far have been filed related to their dogs and cats. Jessica Brix, 22, and Nicholas LaRoss, 21, both of whom lived at a residence in the 1600 block of North Main Street, face multiple charges, Yates City Police Chief Randy Benson said. Answering an animal-neglect complaint, local police arrested Brix for driving while her license was suspended, operating an uninsured vehicle, and disobeying a traffic control device, and arrested LaRosa for possession of cannabis and permitting an unauthorized person to drive, and transported them both to the Knox County Jail. Police said three dogs and two cats in their house had no food, although the dogs had access to water from a fish tank, and the two told police the animals had not been cared for in more than 48 hours. On a previous call, police noticed a large amount of urine and feces on the kitchen floor and kennels. Brix and LaRosa has previously been cited or warned for ordinance
violations for having more than four dogs/cats in a residence and for having an abandoned motor vehicle on private property.
Air conditioner causes smoke at Dollar General
ELMWOOD – Police and firefighters responded to a call at Dollar General in Elmwood Saturday night. Workers noticed a smoky smell in the building, according to police reports. The source of the smoke was traced to an air conditioner unit in back of the building that was “locking up and blowing smoke into the duct work,” Elmwood police chief Aaron Bean said. “It smelled just like paper burning,” Bean said.
Teen injured in crash
PRINCEVILLE – A 17-year-old passenger in a 2008 Dodge Avenger driven by Audrey Saenz, 46, of Princeville was injured May 10 after the car in which she was riding struck a 2004 Pontiac driven by Victoria Powers, 18, of Laura, according to the Peoria County Sheriff’s Office. Both cars were eastbound on Evans Street when the crash occurred. Akron-Princeville Fire Department transported the juvenile to OSF St. Francis Medical Center. No other injuries were reported in
the mishap, police said.
Driver ticketed in rear-end collision
BRIMFIELD – Kenneth Downing, 60, of Brimfield on May 13 was ticketed for failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident after the 1987 Ford truck he was driving westbound on U.S. Route 150 struck the rear of a 2002 Toyota Hylander, which was stopped behind a third vehicle turning left, police said. No injuries were reported.
Peoria reports
• The Freedom Oil Co. Shell station in Kickapoo on May 9 reported having $550 stolen from an unattended safe. The Peoria County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the burglary. • Matthew Cluskey, 30, of Laura, on May 10 was arrested for Driving Under the Influence and transported to the Peoria County Jail. • A theft of more than $300 was reported on May 10 at Mark Willi Metal Working in Edwards.
Deer accidents
• May 5: Jose Alcocer of Laredo, Texas on Legion Hall Road near Evans Mill Road in Radnor Township. • May 11: Josh Roberts of Brimfield on Illinois Route 8 near Taylor Road in Kickapoo Township.
State closes complaint against Williamsfield By BILL KNIGHT
WILLIAMSFIELD – The Illinois Attorney General’s office last week determined that no action is warranted regarding a citizen complaint that the Williamsfield Board of Education allegedly violated the state’s Open Meetings Act. A complaint was filed early this month claiming that the school board broke the law by discussing a matter listed under a different agenda topic than listed. The subject was the proposed school imFor The Weekly Post
provement project. The complaint asserted that a “discussion about the proposed changes was conducted and then a vote was taken to move forward with the bidding process. However, this is all reported like it took place under item 7 on the original agenda, and the agenda did not indicate that this was going to be voted on at the meeting.” That’s permissible, according to Steve Silverman of the Attorney General’s Public Access Bureau, citing legal precedent.
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“The Board did not take ‘final action’ on these projects by moving forward with the bidding process,” Silverman said, noting that courts have determined that a governmental body may take “a step in furtherance of reaching final action, rather than final action itself.” Further, Silverman added, “the requirement of a regular meeting agenda shall not preclude the consideration of items not specifically set forth in the agenda,” and he closed the matter.
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Austin Foster hearing postponed By BILL KNIGHT
LEWISTOWN – The May 11 status hearing for Elmwood man accused of attacking a Farmington police officer postponed any determination on whether he is fit to stand trial. Austin Foster, 21, last Wednesday appeared in Fulton County Court in Lewistown wearing an orange-striped jumpsuit and orange flip-flops when he faced Judge Thomas B. Ewing. Public Defender Walter Barra asked for more time for an evaluation since the doctor hadn’t received necessary police reports. Ewing set a new status hearing for 9 a.m. on May 25. Foster was charged with attempted murder of a peace officer, aggravated For The Weekly Post
battery, disarming a peace officer, and domestic battery in connection with an April 3 fight with Farmington policewoman Jennifer Parkinson. Both were transported to the hospital. Parkinson was treated and placed on paid leave. Foster was treated, taken into custody and driven to the Fulton County Jail in Lewistown, where he remains incarcerated on a $750,000 bond. At an initial hearing on April 13, Ewing told Foster to cooperate with the doctor, since results of the exam would have a bearing on how the case proceeds. The attempted murder charge is a Class-X felony with punishment upon conviction of 20-80 years in prison without probation, $25,000 in fines, and three years of mandatory supervised release.
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to do any good). The ashen faced manager was sitting in his deserted dining room, staring at the ceiling tile with a hole in it. If you take out all the swear words he used once I got there, he didn’t have much to say. I told him I could get rid of the infestation, but it would take a few days. He didn’t care. He didn’t care how much it cost. He just wanted them GONE. He wanted me to throw a tarp over the place and fumigate it. “Yeah, that’s a tent fume, and they only do it for Formosan Termites, not rats.” He described the scene from a few hours earlier. He estimated there were at least 70 people in the dining room when the rat tumbled down. He said it took less than a minute for the place to clear. I had to tell him the bad news. “You realize your restaurant is going out of business, don’t you?”
Galesburg, at the time, did not have a health department and inspections of restaurants were random and infrequent since the inspector had to come from Peoria (the inspections are now done monthly). The manager didn’t think the restaurant would close soon, but if he had 70 people in the place when a rat fell out of the ceiling, I knew it wouldn’t take very long for those 70 people to tell every other living soul in town. I don’t know many people who will willingly go to an eatery where rats might drop at any given moment. They managed to stay open about three weeks more before a complete lack of customers forced them to close their doors. In fact, three other restaurants have tried their hand at occupying the building, but all of them failed rather quickly as well. The building is now a retail shop. But last I knew, they didn’t have any rats.
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PUBLIC NOTICE Brimfield American Legion Post 452 will terminate their breakfast service after May 30th 2016. This very difficult decision was made due to the lack of member participation on breakfast crews. In order to recover from the elimination of the breakfast service and in the best interest of the Legion, we highly encourage all members, who are capable, to become an active member in all Legion activities. We are also soliciting for new members who will voluntarily commit their time for Legion activities by joining the Brimfield American Legion Post 452 NLT May 30, 2016. Potential newcomers from all branches of the military, including Guard and Reserve, are more than welcome to join. If you are currently enlisted in the military or retired / discharged (honorably) and were on active duty during the following dates you are eligible to join. • December 7, 1941 to December 31, 1946 • June 25, 1950 to January 31, 1955 • February 28, 1961 to May 7, 1975 • August 24, 1982 to July 31, 1984 • December 20, 1989 to January 31, 1990 • August 2, 1990 to the date of cessation of hostilities as determined by the Government of the United States, all dates inclusive.
On June 2, 2016, Brimfield Post 452 will meet to decide whether or not we have enough new membership along with current membership participation who will commit their time to help with all activities or will we have to shut our doors for good due to lack of participation. If we can sign up many additional members who are motivated and energetic by the end of May 2016 we have several future fundraising ideas, i.e., dance and bingo, that could be organized and planned. All who are interested in joining the Brimfield American Legion please contact one the following members and they will sign you up. (Please have the following info ready when calling – name, address, phone number, email address, former membership ID # (if applicable), which eligibility date you fall under, and $35.00 for membership dues. Kenny Wertz - 370-1082 Jim Simpson - 691-2202 Fred Middleton - 370-2522 Lois Zaremba - 699-8008 Remember… if you want to join, please do so NLT 30 May!
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Andes mountainsides in South America, tomatoes are members of the nightshade family, which also includes potatoes, eggplants, peppers, and tobacco. Tomatoes are easy to grow and perform best when they get at least six to eight hours of direct sunlight. Although some gardeners like to let them sprawl on a bed of straw, I prefer to trellis my tomato vines. Trellising helps conserve valuable garden space and makes harvesting easier. I bought a 16-foot rigid cattle panel from a farm supply store. It’s about four feet tall and supported in the garden by two steel fence posts. The panel is much stronger than a tomato cage and more durable too. I can set six or eight tomato plants in the ground along the panel and weave the plants into the panel as they grow. After the plants get growing strong, I add a 3-inch layer of mulch (straw, pine needles, chopped leaves, compost or dried grass clippings) to the soil surrounding the plant to keep soil moisture levels even and to control weeds. Alternating periods of drought and wet weather can cause the bottoms of the fruits to turn soft and spoiled, a condition called blossom end rot. A good layer of mulch will go a long way to help keep soil moisture levels on an even keel. It’s very disappointing to see a
tomato ready to pick, only to find the bottom rotting away. If you trellis or cage your tomato plants, they’ll be easier to manage if you do a little pruning. As the plant grows, small leaflets, called suckers, begin to appear where the branches meet the main stem. Pinching out these suckers reduces the amount of foliage and overall size of the vine, improves airflow, and helps yield bigger fruit. Pinch only vine-type (indeterminate) tomato plants, not dwarf or bush (determinate) varieties. Avoid using a high nitrogen fertilizer or fresh manure on your tomato crop because it will encourage luxuriant foliage growth at the expense of fruit production. Tomatoes ripen from the inside out, so don’t leave red ones on the vine too long. Never store tomatoes in the refrigerator because they will lose that fresh tomato flavor and taste like those imposters you get from the store. Set them on
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the kitchen counter and keep them out of the sunlight. For a long time, gardeners were told that pink, yellow and orange varieties have lower acidity than red tomatoes. This is not really true, according to the National Garden Bureau. It’s the balance of aromatic compounds, sugars and acids that creates the flavors of different tomato varieties. Tomatoes with a higher sugar content taste sweeter and are often perceived as being “low acid.” There are hundreds of tomato varieties to choose from. One of my favorites is Celebrity, a firm red fruit with good flavor and excellent disease resistance. It’s a good one to grow in a large pot because it is semi-determinate, meaning the vine is less vigorous and easier to manage. Another one, Big Beef, produces beautiful round fruits weighing nearly a pound. Slices of Big Beef are just the right size to cover a big juicy hamburger. The tomato Husky Gold is a golden orange color both inside and out and has a mild sweet flavor. It adds nice color to a salad or sandwich. The compact plants are perfect for small gardens and containers. All three of these varieties are AllAmerica Selections, which means they are proven garden performers.
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Elmwood sets rates for latchkey program By BILL KNIGHT
ELMWOOD – Parents who use Elmwood’s After Care program next year will pay $5 more per week for the first child, as the Board of Education on Monday approved new rates and OK’d an interest form to be sent to parents for commitments and information. The weekly cost of After Care (from 3:15-6 p.m.) next year will be $50, $30 for a second child, and $25 for a third child. The District also is trying to gauge interest in a morning program from 6:30-7:30 a.m., with weekly costs set at $25, plus $20 for a second child, and $15 for a third child. The school board last month declined to contract with the EvanstonFor The Weekly Post
based Right At School K8 after-school program and keep its current latchkey arrangement. Right At School had offered longer hours; room for more families to participate; an age-oriented, multi-media, interactive educational component; opportunities for local employees; the possibility of a morning option; and comparable fees. “We are trying to get an idea of enrollment for our current After Care program, as well as possibly offering a Before Care program (if there is enough interest),” said Superintendent Chad Wagner. “It is our goal to eliminate the waiting list for After Care for the 2016-17 school year. “The administration will work together with staff to improve to allow for the possibility of increased student capacity,
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professional development for staff, and a structured curriculum,” he said. Meanwhile, the Board’s Finance Committee plans to set up tentative plans for a worst-case scenario if the state fails to adequately fund public schools, but that’s in the early stages, Wagner said. “We don’t want to be reactionary and say we’re going to do such-andsuch,” he said. “We’re still discussing ideas, depending on what happens in Springfield.” The Board also approved a Memorandum of Understanding with the teachers union to change current contract language pertaining to reimbursement of approved graduate-school courses. Now, total reimbursement for courses taken between July 1 and Dec. 31 will be limited to half
the budgeted funds, and the balance of allotted funds would be available afterward. In other news: • Co-op agreements with Brimfield for baseball and softball for 2016-17 and 2017-18 were OK’d. • Eight registrations were approved to attend the 2015 Joint Annual Conference of the Illinois Association of School Boards, Illinois Association of School Administrators, and Illinois Association of School Business Officials Nov. 18-20 in Chicago, and individual Board members and administrators are still considering whether they can go. • The District’s insurance policy was renewed through 2016-17 with Unland Companies of Pekin, which increased its premium $700, which includes an additional $600,000 of coverage for the new Junior High School. • The Board’s next meeting was rescheduled to June 20.
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Yates City board discusses accountability By BILL KNIGHT
YATES CITY – The Village Board on Wednesday (May 11) voiced the pros and cons of accountability, criticizing the nuisance of having to comply with state laws on the Freedom of Information on the one hand and praising the logic of requiring village workers to account for every mile and minute of the day on the other. The Board approved a new time-sheet system for workers to log miles driven and to describe the work they do every day. Public Works director Chuck Eiker, who presents detailed monthly reports to the Board, asked if employees would have a few minutes at the end of their days to fill out the daily reports, but Trustees Lesley Gavelys and Beau Bewley suggested workers complete them as they go. Meanwhile, a special meeting of the Village Board was scheduled for this Wednesday (May 18) to include a closed session for the “discussion of the appointment, emFor The Weekly Post
ployment, compensation, discipline, performance or dismissal of employees of the Village,” according to a notice posted by Village Clerk Lyn Suits. In other business, ElbaSalem Fire Chief John McKinty and a few firefighters reported to the Board that months of conversations about a new storm siren may be unnecessary. “The fire department has a functional siren,” McKinty said. “They’re actually ‘outdoor warning sirens’ set up to warn people outside, like in the park or in their yards.” He added that it used to require a firefighter to depress and hold a button, but was improved to a toggle switch – but it still needs to be manually triggered. Others suggested a possible improvement might be to install a remote-electronic triggering system so authorized public safety personnel could quickly start and stop the siren despite their location. (Local people trigger the siren, not the County or National Weather Service.)
The consensus was to consider an estimate at the June Village Board meeting. In other action, the Board • OK’d the appropriation of $30,000 for resurfacing work arranged by engineer Kevan Cooper of Galesburg’s Bruner, Cooper & Zuck to be completed through an intergovernmental agreement with Knox County, as previously approved; • discussed needed repairs to a power line laying on the roof of a Village building, a waterfeed valve and a pump; • approved Treasurer Joy Mahr sending Consumer Confidence Reports notices on water bills going out in June; • heard Bewley report that fund raising for restoring the gazebo has
raised about $17,000 in less than a year, not including the Village’s contribution of about $3,000 in materials; • told Eiker that water meters should be read on the 19th and 20th of the month unless one of those days falls on a weekend, when they’d be read the previous Thursday-Friday or following Monday-Tuesday; • heard Police Chief Randy Benson’s April report of 69 reports, 36 stops, 29 warnings, 8 tickets and 4 arrests; and • swore in new Trustee Jeff Sprecher and appointed Mahr, Benson, Suits, attorney Wayne Statham and the Bank of Yates City for the Fiscal Year.
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PEORIA – The Peoria County Sheriff’s Office will join the Illinois Department of Transportation, the Illinois State Police and hundreds of local law enforcement agencies for the Click It or Ticket campaign through May 30. Motorists caught driving without wearing a seat belt will be ticketed. Those caught driving impaired due to drugs or alcohol will be arrested. Illinois seat belt law requires all passengers in the front and back seat to wear seat belts. Surveys show rear-seat usage in 2015 was 84.9 percent versus 95.2 percent for drivers and front-seat passengers.
Hastings guest speaker at Crossroads church
ELMWOOD – Todd Hastings will be guest speaker Sunday (May 22) at Crossroads Assembly of God Church for the 10:30 a.m. service. A potluck will follow the service. All are welcome.
Peoria SWCD holding annual plant sale
PEORIA – The Peoria County Soil & Water Conservation District is holding its annual plant sale, featuring a variety of native plants and grasses. Plants cost $2 per plug. For a list of plants or an order form, visit peoriacountyswcd.tripod.com. Orders will be taken until May 31. Pick-up is June 15 at the Peoria SWCD office. Call 309-671-7040, Ext. 3.
Elmwood Pharmacy has grand reopening
ELMWOOD – TelePharm, an Iowa City-based digital healthcare company, is pleased to announce the grand re-opening/customer appreciation event of the Elmwood Pharmacy today (May 19) at noon. To celebrate, there will be a light lunch, beverages, a raffle and socializing. Elmwood Pharmacy is located at 108 E. Main St. Pharmacy hours are 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Saturday.
Elmwood Strawberry Festival will be June 4
ELMWOOD – The 28th annual
Elmwood Strawberry Festival will be held Saturday, June 4. In addition to strawberry pie, shortcake, pizza, sundaes and other strawberry delicacies, the day-long event includes entertainment, food, craft booths, and the increasingly popular Strawberry Festival Car Show. The Elmwood Fire Department will host its annual Pancake and Sausage Breakfast from 6-10 a.m. at the firehouse on North Magnolia Street right across from Elmwood's Central Park. Antique and show cars will begin lining Elmwood’s Main Street at 8 a.m. and 100+ crafters, vendors, and artisans will fill the park with fun and unique items for sale. The Food Tent will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The musical lineup features the men’s a cappella group the Pride of Peoria and the women’s a cappella group the Heart of Illinois Chorus, followed by the musical stylings of Richard Selquist. Also new to Elmwood, Four Other Brothers will perform. For information, go online to facebook.com/ElmwoodStrawberryFest.
Alpha Park Library has self-guided garden walk
BARTONVILLE –The Friends of Alpha Park Library will hold a self-guided walk through five local gardens Saturday, June 18, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., rain or shine. In addition to revealing natural beauty, there will be “must see” activities going on in each garden.
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These include music, painting, pottery, fairy gardens, a plant sale, and the University of Illinois Extension Master Gardeners, willing to share knowledge. All proceeds will be used by the Library Friends to enhance Alpha Park Library. Tickets are $10 in advance or $12 on the day of the garden walk. Tickets are $3 per person for individual gardens, sold at gardens on the day of the walk. Children under two are free. Not all gardens are stroller-friendly. Among the locations selling advance tickets are: • Alpha Park Library, 3527 Airport Rd., Bartonville • Buskirk Garden Center & Gift Shop, 217 N. Main, Hanna City • Kelly Seed, 202 Hamilton Blvd., Peoria For more information, call Margie Karl at (309) 657-5926.
Pheasants Forever trap shoots in Chillicothe
The Illinois River Valley chapter of Pheasants Forever will hold a trap shoot every Monday in June (June 6, 13, 20 and 27) at the Chillicothe Sportsman’s Club from 6-7 p.m. and 7-8 p.m. Call or email the time you want to shoot to (309) 385-2127, 2294090 or maldrich64@hotmail.com. Pheasants Forever will supply two boxes of shells (20 or 12 gauge) each night to shoot. You will be asked to pay for your clay birds and $3.00 for each box of shells you shoot.
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then-Congressman Schock and then-State Sen. Darin LaHood and sent to area households in 2014 was defamatory and hurt Burns’ reputation and business by accusing him of improprieties. The letter was mailed in connection with a campaign by incumbent Peoria County Board member Brad Harding (R-16th District) against Burns. Burns lost to Harding last year, with 44 percent of the vote to Harding’s 56 percent. The Peoria County Republican Central Committee, which reportedly paid for the letter’s printing, also was named as a de-
fendant. The two-page letter Schock and LaHood signed stated, “Dick Burns has been banned by the Illinois State Fair from showing hogs because he has been caught seriously cheating to win contests with large prizes.” The statements make “factual allegations which are false in their entirety,” Ryan said. They “cannot be characterized as opinions, hyperbole, or loose or figurative language, cannot reasonably be subjected to an innocent construction [and] they imply not only the potential of criminal conduct but also impropriety in Mr. Burns’ professional integrity in
agriculture as well as in his professional reputation as a judge for cattle shows.” Burns, 68, is a breeder and shower of Angus cattle who “does not now, nor has he ever, shown hogs at the Illinois State Fair,” the five-page suit says. The suit adds that Burns is not banned from anything. Burns told The Weekly Post the letter’s allegations “affected my profession.” Schock resigned in March 2015 after questions about spending irregularities. LaHood served the state Senate from the 37th District, in The Weekly Post area,
until wining a special election to fill Schock’s term. Peoria County’s 16th District includes Brimfield, Elmwood, Jubilee, Rosefield, and parts of Kickapoo, Radnor and Trivoli townships.
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OBITUARIES Ira Lee Asbury
YATES CITY – Ira Lee Asbury, 55, of Galesburg, father of a Yates City man, died May 10 at Galesburg Cottage Hospital. Survivors include his wife Dorothea; parents Wayne Sr. (Mae) Asbury of North Carolina and Janice (Albert) Westfall of Henderson; son Kevin (Melissa) Asbury of Yates City; daughters Mary Asbury of Bartonville, Amanda (Dusty) Ballou and Heather (Sanjeev) Choudhary, both of Vermont; 15 grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. Per Ira’s wishes, cremation rites were accorded. A celebration of Ira’s life was May 13 at the Thomas Legacy Center in Galesburg. Condolences may be left online at www.watsonthomas.com.
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BRIMFIELD – Barbery “Barb” Clark, 80, of Princeville died May 14 at UnityPoint Health-Methodist in Peoria. Barb was born Jan. 27, 1936, in Kewanee, the daughter of James and Hazel Brown Mitchell. She married Delmar Clark Sr. on Jan. 29, 1955. He survives. Also surviving are their children, Delmar Jr. (Bonnie) Clark of Astoria, Don Clark of Princeville, Ranae Welker of Princeville, Robert (Shari) Clark of Princeville and James (Amy) Clark of Mountain View, Mo.; 13 grandchildren; and 22 greatgrandchildren, with another arriving in August; and one twin sister, Beverly (Duane) Stahl of Peoria. She spent her life caring for and loving not only her own children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, but many children in her hometown of Princeville. Cremation has been accorded. A visitation to celebrate Barb’s life was to be held from 10 a.m. to 12 noon Wednesday (May 18) at Haskell-
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Bonita Hietter
BRIMFIELD – Bonita “Bonnie” Hietter, 82, of Canton, sister of women in Brimfield and Yates City, died May 13 at Farmington Country Manor. Survivors include children Maria (Mark) Sommerville of Canton, Joseph (Pam) Hietter of Georgia, Angela (Joe) Beeney of Washington, Patrick (Traci) Hietter of Delavan, Lisa (Michael) Wanless of Washington, and Thomas (Jon) Hietter of Los Angeles; sisters June McKown of Brimfield, Ruth Dodd of Yates City, Rita (Don) Vicary of Creve Coeur and Rose Haynes of South Carolina; 21 grandchildren; and 25 great-grandchildren. A funeral Mass will be at 11 a.m. Friday (May 20) at St. Thomas Catholic Church, with visitation from 9 to 11 a.m. Friday prior to the Mass at the church, with recitation of the Rosary at 8:30 a.m. Burial will be at St. Patrick Cemetery in Kickapoo. Condolences may be left online at www.wrightandsalmon.com.
ELMWOOD – Michael J. Hoshor, 55, of Peoria, father of an Elmwood woman, died May 11 at his residence. Survivors include his wife, Claudia Lair McGurk Hoshor; daughters Kimberley (Aaron) Sarff of Elmwood and Angela (Joe Murphy) McGurk of Sparland; son Thomas (Lisa) Lair of Peoria; five grandchildren; and sister Debbie (Denny) Hines of Hanna City. Mike worked for Peoria School District 150 as a custodian at Washington Gifted School, where he was loved by the faculty and students. He also owned and operated a business known as Foundations, where he conducted presentations about drug and alcohol abuse at various schools throughout the Midwest. Cremation rites were accorded. Private services will be held at a later date. Condolences may be left online at www.peoriafuneral.com.
Derrick Jackson
WILLIAMSFIELD – Derrick R. Jackson, 62, of Williamsfield, died May 5 at OSF St. Mary Medical Center in Galesburg. Survivors include his wife, Rena (Simpson) Jackson; sons Clint (Crystal) Simpson and Cody Simpson, both of Williamsfield, and Chord (Shannon) Jones of Knoxville; daughter Cortney Jones of Williamsfield; 17 grandchildren; his mother, Josie Jackson of Arizona; brothers Petey and Kip Jackson; and sisters Terri and Brooke Jackson, all of Arizona. Cremation was accorded by Schmidt-Haller Burial and Cremation Services. No services are planned. Friends and family are encouraged to reach out to the family with any condolences.
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Brimfield Township adopts budgets, levies By BILL KNIGHT
Brimfield Township adopted both the Town and Highway budgets and levies as previously reported, and approved purchasing an additional storage device to back up Township ledgers, according to supervisor Tony Karl. Also, a proposal for gardening of Township property was discussed but tabled until next winter to see if there would be any interest. Finally, a representative from the local historical society is scheduled to make a presentation to the Board in June concerning issues regarding the 1837 L. L. Guyer log house on Galena Avenue. • Jubilee Township – Supervisor Steve Garnett said, “We received a request from the state for information on projects related to Prevailing For The Weekly Post
Wage. While the notice said it had been requested on April 27 the first we received was on May 8 with a deadline of May 23. “This is something new we have not seen before,” he continued. “We pass ordinances requiring contractors adhere to Prevailing Wage requirements every year, and contractors sign agreements to comply. Applicable projects last year were Thousand Dollar Road and spray patching. Road Commissioner [Jack Groeper] is working with the Township attorney to provide the requested information.” • Milbrook Township – Millbrook Township received state checks for Personal Property Replacement Tax of $1,641.54 for the Town Fund and $2,286.12 for Road & Bridge Fund. • Rosefield Township – Rosefield
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Gwen Klawitter
PRINCEVILLE – Gwendolyn “Gwen” E. Kaspar Klawitter, 94, of Peoria, mother of a Princeville woman, died May 8 at Manor Court of Peoria. Gwen is survived by five children, Sue (Jerry) Krause of Princeville, Jim (Lorrie) Kaspar of Peoria, Lisa Garrison of Washington, Deb Steinbaker of Iowa City and Amy (Bill) Woolf of Wichita, Kan.; stepchildren Ron (June) Klawitter of Missouri and Deanna Meissner of Colorado; daughter-inlaw, Kathy Kaspar of Florida; brother Vincent (Caroline) Mackenzie of California; 14 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren. Services were May 12 at Mt. Calvary Evangelical Lutheran Church in Peoria. Interment will take place
in Lutheran Cemetery in Peoria. Condolences may be left online at www.thewiltonmortuary.com.
Shirley Kraps
EDWARDS – Shirley I. Kraps, 95, of Peoria, mother of an Edwards man, died May 6 at Liberty Village in Peoria. Surviving are children Michael (Kathy) Kraps of Edwards, Carol (Bud) Lowe of Dunlap, and Jean (Steve) Koehl of Dunlap; 7 grandchildren; and 17 great-grandchildren. A memorial was May 13 at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Peoria, with private burial at a later date. Condolences may be left online at csmico.com.
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Township Highway Commissioner Matt Windish reported ditch improvement work was finished on Dubois Road., and Supervisor Mike Windish said “There will be more ditch work done on Rockhill Road in the coming month.” • Salem Township – Salem Township donated $200 to the Elmwoodyates City-Farmington fireworks show for Independence Day, according to Clerk Shelby Copple. • Truro Township – Truro Township underwent personnel changes at its May 10 meeting, as the Board accepted resignations of Trustees Casey Doubet and Randy Cemei and of Supervisor Chester Ross. The Board then appointed Beau Johnson and Thomas Rakestraw as Trustees, and Lacy Niebuhr as Township Supervisor. Yates, Jr., 79, of Wyoming, formerly of Princeville, died May 11 at his residence. Survivors include his wife, Charlotte (Keller) Yates; sons Michael (Rae Lynn) Yates of Peoria, David (Marie) Yates of Trenton, S.C., Daniel Yates of Titusville, Fla., and Kirk (Barbara) Yates of Marquette Heights; daughters Donita (George) Asmus of Pleasanton, Calif., and Toni (Frank) Honsowetz of El Segundo, Calif.; 13 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren. Funeral services were May 14 at the Princeville Baptist Church, with burial at Princeville Township Cemetery. Condolences may be left online at www.haskellhott.com.
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Princeville all it could handle throughout the game. “Madison Stewart pitched very well for R-W,” Princeville coach Chad Gardner said. The Lady Princes got their hitting and pitching back on track in the second game, drubbing R-W 17-2. Brooke Gardner drove in four and had a home run. Haley Holt and Caitlin Pullen each drove in three, while Roe had two RBIs. Roberts was 3-for-3, Hite went 3-for-5 and Natalie Dominguez and Karlen Sandall each had two knocks in the hit parade. Holt was stellar in the pitching circle, giving up four hits, while striking out six and walking none. Ten runs in the first led to a 19-2 final over Stark County last Friday. Holt struck out eight, yielding just two hits and one walk. Hite was the big run producer in this game with six RBIs. Cokel drove in three, while Roe and Sandall had two RBIs each and Pullen was a perfect 3-for-3. Lane’s pitching was needed in the 6-3 victory over Midwest Central last Thursday. Her 11 strikeouts were too much for the non-conference foe. RBI singles in the first by Gardner and Jessica DeVries led to four runs that would be enough for the Lady Princes win. Brimfield-Elmwood Brimfield-Elmwood (21-6) bounced back from two straight losses with a 6-0 victory over Orion in its Class 2A Sherrard Regional opener. Morgan Ledbetter allowed four
hits and struck out seven for the shutout win and sister Montana Ledbetter went 2-for-3 with two RBIs. Allison Pillman, Alyssa Roll and Grace LaFollette also drove in runs for B-E. The Lady Indians will play Friday at 4:30 p.m. in the regional title game against Sherrard, a 10-1 winner Tuesday over Mercer County. B-E had finished the regular season losing to two traditionally good, large-school programs: Rock Island (6-0) and Limestone (13-3). At Rock Island the Lady Indians could only come up with five hits, two coming off the bat of Lindsey Stenger. Roll’s pitching kept the team within striking distance and the Lady Rocks didn’t strike for any big innings. But a rare game of errors and too many B-E strikeouts were too much to overcome. “Our eight team strikeouts and six errors held us back in this game,” coach Kurt Juerjens said. On Friday in Bartonville, B-E took a 3-1 advantage into the fourth, but Limestone moved ahead with three in that frame, then scored nine in the fifth to bring the contest to an early ending. Four errors hurt the Lady Indians and six team hits weren’t enough. Farmington The Lady Farmers (10-11) made up a previously rained-out contest at Havana last Thursday with a 143 victory. Ilsa Strough got by two Havana runs in the first with a nine strikeout and zero walks pitching line by game’s end. At the plate, Farmington blasted Havana pitching for 17 hits. Taylor Whitehurst had a home run, a dou-
ble, and six RBIs. Strough added a double and four RBIs to her pitching performance. Emily Buster was 2-for-3 with a double, and Alli Sprague hit 3-for-4 with a two bagger. “A great formula for winning is a great offensive output to go along with solid pitching,” coach Jeni Fauser said. Farmington was set to open regional play Wednesday (May 20) against Monmouth United in the Class 2A Williamsfield Regional. ROWVA-Williamsfield ROWVA-Williamsfield’s season ended in its first regional game at Knoxville in an 8-4 loss. Tina Foglesong led the Lady Cougars (422) with two hits and Madison Stewart pitched all the way for RW. Too many missed opportunities on offense kept the team from pulling off the upset, according to coach Joel Zaiser. “The last time we played Knoxville, we were beaten by the 10-run rule,” Zaiser said. “We’ve really improved, especially on defense. Next year, we’ll be young so we’ll have to keep working on fundamentals to continue to improve.” R-W had the daunting task of finishing up its regular campaign with two makeup games versus powerhouse Princeville. In the first game, R-W stayed close as Foglesong had two hits and drove in both runs in the 7-2 loss. “We played a really good team very tough,” Zaiser said. “I was proud of our efforts.” Unfortunately for the Lady Cougars, there wasn’t much left for game two in the 17-2 loss.
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NEW SCOREBOARDS Brimfield recently put up new scoreboards on its baseball and softball diamonds thanks to fund-raising efforts by the Brimfield Athletic Booster’s Club in running concessions stands and putting on the annual Booster Raffle Dance.
Brimfield graduate Kerrigan Dura recently won a Division III Fan Choice award for softball in a poll conducted by Herosports.com. Dura is hitting .566 at Eureka College with 66 RBIs and a .606 on-base percentage as her team heads to regional play. In other college softball news, Brimfield grad Sam Gudat was named to the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin all-conference first team. A senior at Illinois Wesleyan, Gudat led the league with a .463 average. Meanwhile, Brimfield grad Morgan Florey finished 16-11 as a pitcher for Division I Evansville.
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Jake Settles. Both hitters also had doubles and drove in a run. Caleb Gilstrap got the win for Farmington, pitching seven innings and scattering 10 hits. B-E senior Jake Roberts held Farmington to one run in six innings of relief after the Farmers grabbed the early 5-0 lead. Jack Bowers was 4-for4 for B-E and Austin Sims went 2-for-3 with a double and two RBIs. Brimfield-Elmwood Prior to the Farmington loss, the Indians had shut out Bushnell-Prairie City 8-0 last Wednesday. Sims pitched the complete game shutout, fanning eight and allowing four hits in seven innings. He also drove in two runs to support his cause. Bowers was 2-for-4 with a double and two runs scored for B-E, Caileb Johnson was 3-for4 and Tyler Bunting went 2-for-3 for the Indians. Princeville The Princes split a doubleheader with ROWVAWilliamsfield last Thursday and then lost 73 to Eureka on Tuesday to finish the regular season.
Indians, Cougars lose regional openers
BRIMFIELD – Playing at home did not help the Brimfield-Elmwood baseball team Monday in a 3-2 loss to Annawan-Wethersfield in the Class 2A regional opener for both squads. The Indians (13-15) scored runs in the second and third innings to take an early 2-1 lead. Caileb Johnson was hit by a pitch and scored after singles by Jake Roberts and Jimmy Houlihan (2-for-3 for the game) in the second inning. Sam Hedrick reached on an error in the third and scored after singles by Austin Sims and Johnson. But A-W (11-17) scored one run in the first and added two in the fifth on three hits off senior pitcher Sims (62), who scattered 11 hits over 7 in-
Princeville (14-15) lost the first half of the twinbill, 6-3, as R-W pitcher Garrett Wight limited Princeville to seven hits and went 1-for-3. R-W managed just six hits but made the most of
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nings and struck out six. B-E stranded six runners in the last four innings and left the bases loaded in the fourth. Johnson finished as the top hitter this season with a .372 average, followed by Sims at .337. • At Kewanee – ROWVA-Williamsfield suffered a season-ending 12-4 loss to Kewanee in the first round of the Class 2A regional here. Tucker Sams went 3-for-3 for R-W (8-16) and Charlie Gibbons rapped out two hits and had an RBI, but it was not enough to halt Kewanee, which had 16 hits and scored seven times in the first two innings. Kewanee advances to play No. 3 seed Farmington today at 4:30 p.m.
Austin Sims pitches in an 8-0 win over BushnellPrairie City. Sims had a 1.87 ERA for Brimfield-Elmwood this season. Photo by Collin Fairfield.
those and eight walks. The Princes turned the tables in the second game, winning 4-1 despite being outhit. Evan Bultemeier got the win, allowing nine hits but just one run in seven innings. He also
fanned seven. Austin Brodine (who hit .505 with 31 RBIs) doubled and drove in three runs for Princeville, which got doubles from Justin Janssen and Matthew Butterfield. Garrett Wight, Zac Smith and Austin Batterson all went 2-for-4 for the Cougars. Smith took the loss with a completegame six-hitter. Princeville opens regional play today (May 19) in a 4:30 p.m. game at Stark County against No. 3 seed AlWood.
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The 4x400 finish helped boost the Farmington girls to fourth overall at the Sherrard Sectional with 69 points. “We got in most of what we thought was going to get in (to state) and ran some good times,” Vallas said. Elmwood-Brimfield was eighth at sectional with 25 points. Emily McCauley had E-B’s best finish, placing third in the 800 in 2:37.79. Also third was E-B’s 4x800 relay of Sadie Rumbold, Allie Meyers, Olivia Harlow and Emily McCauley in a time of 11:04.67. Zofia Lehew was fourth in the high jump after clearing 4-11 and McCauley was fourth in the 1,600 (6:06.95). Strong relays are nothing new for the Lady Farmers, whose 4x400 team placed sixth at state last year. Jordan Peckham is the lone returnee from that unit, which ran 4:08.26 in the final. Farmington will make the trip to Charleston Wednesday to help acclimate its newcomers to the state meet. Along the same vein, Vallas said Litchfield will not compete in the pole vault, even though she qualified by winning at sectional and clearing 8 feet, 6 inches. “We mutually decided she would
focus on the relays instead of running back and forth,” Vallas said. “We know both know she’s a year away from when I really think she can win a medal.” But the 4x400 is hardly Farmington’s only shot. The Lady Farmers come in seeded fifth in both the 4x100 and the 4x200 relays. Farmington’s 4x100 sectional time of 50.76 is a school record, but ranks behind top seed at state Decatur St. Teresa (50.2). Farmington’s 4x200 time of 1:47.69 is also fifth. St. Teresa is tops in that event in 1:46.08. Jordan Peckham also qualified in the 100 after winning at sectional in 12.88 – tied for 16th coming into the state meet. “The highlight of the sectional was probably the 100,” Vallas said,
The Farmington quartet of (left to right) Payton Peckham, Jordan Peckham, Haley Huls and Sarah Litchfield will compete in three relays Thursday at the IHSA Class A state track meet in Charleston.
noting that Jordan Peckham’s win in the 100 was the first time Mercer County junior Kenzie Baker had been beaten this season. What’s more, Payton Peckham had a personal best of 13.03 in the same race and placed third, but just missed the qualifying time (12.97). Boys Sectional – Local teams will compete Friday (May 20) at the Knoxville Class A Sectional. Elmwood-Brimfield will vie for a sectional title. For Farmington, the question is the health of senior Steven Gilstrap, who has been sidelined with a hamstring injury. When healthy he is one of the top sprinters around and has the Peoria Journal Star’s second-fastest 400 time of 50.5 – behind only the 50.4 of Alex Landwehr of Annawan-Wethersfield, who will be at Knoxville.
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Other Class 7A girls medalists included Libby Martin of Princeville, who was third in the 400 in 1:03.13; Caroline Gill of Princeville, who was eighth in the 100 hurdles (17.58); the Princeville 4x100 relay of Martin, Lilly Coats, Gill and Dearing Grace which was eighth in 57.35. In boys action, the top area finisher was eighthgrader Loren Peterson of Williamsfield. Peterson was fifth in the Class 8A 800 in a time of 2:11.14 and was seventh in the 1,600 in 4:50.83.
In Class 7A, Eli Stevenson of Elmwood placed seventh in the 800 (2:21.52) and was eighth in the 1,600 in 5:14.25. Luke Groeper of Elmwood was eighth in high jump after clearing 4-10. Class AA Sectional – Farmington Central advanced three pole vaulters to the Class AA state meet this Friday and Saturday. Friday starts at 10:15 a.m. with a parade of athletes and seventh grade pole vault starts at 11 a.m. Eighth-grade pole vault is Saturday. FARMINGTON JH
Aliza Welker (right) wins the Class 7A 100-meter dash Saturday.
Boys - 7th Grade • Matt Kenney – pole vault Boys - 8th Grade • Quinton Fultz – pole vault Girls - 7th Grade • Kylie Turner – pole vault.
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Weekly Post Sports By JEFF LAMPE FARMINGTON – After setting another school record despite cold, windy conditions in last Thursday’s sectional meet, the Farmington girls track team heads to state in position to bring home another medal. Relays are again the ticket the Lady Farmers hope to punch when the IHSA state meet starts today (May 19) in Charleston at O’Brien Stadium on the campus of Eastern Illinois University. Running preliminaries are scheduled to start at 11 a.m., and Farmington is seeded in the top five in three sprint relays. “We’ve got to run well on Thursday,” coach Toby Vallas Weekly Post Staff Writer
Princeville’s Maddie Hite singled in this at-bat to score Brooke Gardner from third in a 12-0 win over Henry on Tuesday night in Class 1A regional action. Photo by Collin Fairfield.
Princeville rolls 12-0 in regional
Princeville’s softball team finished the last week of a very dominating 28-3 regular season in a big way by sweeping a twin bill over Lincoln Trail rival ROWVA-Williamsfield, crushing LTC foe Stark County and outlasting Midwest Central. That boosted the Lady Princes to a perfect 15-0 mark in the LTC. And the Lady Princes kept rolling in the regionals, winning their opener against Henry on For The Weekly Post
Tuesday, 12-0. Madison Roe drove in four runs and was one of four Princeville batters with a pair of hits in the win, joining Natalie Cokel, Maddie Hite and Lane Nichole Roberts. Paige Lane allowed three hits and struck out seven for the postseason victory. Top-seed Princeville (29-3)
advances to Saturday’s 11 a.m. title game in the AbingdonAvon Class 1A Regional. The Lady Princes hope the regular season ends as well as did the regular season. Last Saturday’s 7-2 first-game victory against R-W was aided by a three-spot in the fourth and a 10-strikeout pitching performance from Lane, whose five walks were off her norm. Thanks in part to those walks and some good pitching of its own, the Lady Cougars gave Continued on Page 17
Farmers head to postseason with a win By JEFF LAMPE Two area baseball teams bowed out in the first day of regional play. Two are left to play today. Of the remaining pair (Farmington and Princeville), the Farmers look to have the best shot to advance. Seeded No. 3 in the Class 2A Brimfield Regional, Farmington (18-12) fared well during its last visit to Brimfield. After jumping to an early 5-0 Weekly Post Staff Writer
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Swearingen
lead last Saturday, Farmington mounted a seventh-inning rally to top home team B-E in the regular season finale for both.
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Trey Swearingen singled to open the seventh and then scored the game-winner on a two-out single by Jacob Ruchotzke. Farmington will see its first postseason action today (May 19) at 4:30 p.m. in Brimfield against Kewanee. The winner of that game faces No. 2 seed Tremont or Annawan-Wethersfield Saturday at 11 a.m. in the final. Swearingen was 3-for-3 in the win over B-E (13-15), as was Continued on Page 18
Boys Sectional • Area boys track teams will compete in the Class 1A Knoxville Sectional on Friday (May 20).
said. “You’re not in it on Saturday if you don’t do well on Thursday. You’ve got to take care of the first one and then move on to the next one.” The quartet of sophomores Haley Huls and sisters Jordan and Payton Peckham and freshman Sarah Litchfield earned the top seed in the 4x400 relay after winning at the Sherrard Sectional with a time of 4:09.84. The next best time out of the sectionals is Seneca at 4:10.78. Continued on Page 19
St. Mary’s Welker wins Class 7A 100-meter title By JEFF LAMPE
EAST PEORIA – Sixthgrader Aliza Welker of Kickapoo St. Mary’s School won an IESA state championship Saturday in the Class 7A 100meter dash. Welker came into the state meet seeded 11th in the 100 after sectionals. But she won her heat in 13.23 seconds and then sprinted to an evenfaster time of 13.19 to win the final, edging Emma Ginther of Abingdon-Avon (13.24). That wasn’t all, though. Welker just missed a medal in the high jump, placing ninth after clearing 4-foot, 6inches. She also placed 11th in the 200 in a time of 28.62. Welker was one of eight local junior high school ath-
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Aliza Welker of Kickapoo St. Mary’s School won the IESA Class A state title for the 100meter dash Saturday in a time of 13.19 seconds.
letes to bring home medals from the Class A state meet at East Peoria’s EastSide Centre. Continued on Page 19