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Talks continue on fire merger By BILL KNIGHT
ELMWOOD – Discussion of merging the operations of the Elmwood Fire Department and the Elmwood Rural Fire Protection District has been going on for months, and if fewer than two dozen voters petition the move, it could appear on a future ballot. The Elmwood Fire Department was scheduled to meet for another discussion at press time, and the Elmwood City BYE Finances Council has a special meeting Assets have inscheduled to discuss the matter creased for BYE Friday at 4 p.m. Ambulance ServIf the merger is approved by ice. Page 2. voters and accepted by the Elmwood Rural Fire Protection District (ERFPD), it would permit the district to raise taxes covering ambulance services, and permit a more equitable sharing of the costs of BYE Ambulance Service, Inc. Funding for BYE comes from reimbursements from insurers and Medicare, donations and funds from four taxing bodies: the Brimfield Fire Protection District, Elba-Salem Township Protection District (the Yates City area), the City of Elmwood, and the ERFPD. Elmwood already levies the maximum tax it can to underwrite BYE: .25 per $100 of assessed valuation. “We can’t give any more,” said Elmwood Mayor J.D. Hulslander. “We’re maxed out.” Yates City’s Elba-Salem Fire Protection District levies .2810 and could go up to .30, but the Brimfield Fire Protection District has declined to raise its levy, which remains at .13714 despite the authority to levy .30. For The Weekly Post
Williamsfield Fire Protection District first responders practice at Oak Run earlier this spring during a simulated on-water rescue while using their new custom rescue/fire vessel made by AAD Boats of Bartonville. Photos by Michael Johnson.
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to look at something.” They took bids from several local boat makers DAHINDA – Oak Run is a busy place for before settling on AAD. The boat is equipped like boaters this time of year, but also a safer place any other emergency response vehicle with lights, thanks to the efforts of the Williamsfield Fire Pro- siren, radios, medical equipment and fire-fighting tection District (WFPD). equipment. The latter includes a fire pump that Last year the WFPD commissioned the concan be used to battle fires that may occur near the struction of a $40,000 custom-made rescue/fire shoreline. boat by AAD Boats in Bartonville. David Hamm The boat also has a special dive door that aland his crew at lows first responders AAD finished to slide a patient on a the 22-foot flatbackboard (as shown bottom plate boat in the picture above) last fall and the through the door into vessel has been the boat for treatment in the water nuand transport to the merous times aldock. ready since A donation from May – thankfully the Ralph Norman only for training Foundation allowed sessions. WFPD to purchase a Williamsfield Fire Protection District volunteers have been “We hope dock and boat lift. training each month for on-water rescues since May. that’s all we ever And the Oak Run use it for,” said Bruce Bush, president of the Oak Property Owners Association allowed the dock to Run First Responders. be placed near the main beach for faster response But Bush said WFPD members started talking to emergencies. about the need for a rescue boat after the drownTraining is ongoing each month, as is practice ing of an angler at Little John Campground a few for on-water emergencies. WFPD members have years ago. studied with Chief Michael Johnson of the Fon “We started talking about what our response Du Lac Park Police, Illinois Department of Natuwould be if we had a problem on the lake,” Bush ral Resources Conservation Police and the U.S. said. “That’s when we decided we really needed Coast Guard. By JEFF LAMPE
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Williamsfield board working on budget By BILL KNIGHT
WILLIAMSFIELD – The Board of Education for Williamsfield School District 210 at its Monday meeting considered financial and philosophical issues. After discussing the local budget, the board approved proceeding with drafting a budget based on last year’s revenue levels. “This should result in some much-needed tax relief for many of the district property owners,” said new superintendent Tim Farquer. An approved budget will be on display after the board’s next meeting Aug. 12, when its first reading is scheduled, meeting the state-mandated 30 days prior to the Sept. 16 meeting. The board also adopted a district vision, a set of comFor The Weekly Post
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The ERFPD levies .15564, although it is authorized to go as high as .30. For Fiscal Year 2011, the rates for each $100 of assessed valuation [and payments to BYE] are: • Brimfield FPD – .137 [$132,168] • Elba-Salem – .281 [$62,000] • Elmwood – .25 [$55,515] • ERFPD – .155 [$23,800] Therefore, property assessed at $100,000 in Brimfield paid $137 a year for ambulance service; in Elba-Salem $281; in Elmwood $250; in rural Elmwood $155. Although a possible merger would remove Elmwood’s City Council from decision-making power on fire protection – and the city council has been facilitating ongoing talks about the idea – no city action is required. A petition of 1 percent of Elmwood city’s registered voters would be filed with the Circuit Court, which would publish a notice and schedule a hearing, and a referendum on the issue could be set. Results of the referendum would go to the ERFPD, which could accept or reject the merger. Though the idea might allow Elmwood flexibility to help BYE and give the fire district some options, support is uncertain. “The city would be giving up a little, but in the long term it might benefit BYE and also the local fire department,” Hulslander said.
“Elmwood Rural could issue bonds, maybe for a building, or designate funds to go toward an audit – which right now comes out of the fire department budget – or other things. “[The city] wouldn’t have as much influence – but trustees are still accountable,” he added. ERFPD is overseen by three trustees appointed by the County Board for three-year terms. Current trustees (and their terms’ expiration dates) are Daniel Bowhay (May 2, 2014), Thomas Shissler (April 30, 2016) and David Wagner (April 30, 2015). “We’ve talked about it but we’re going to meet and maybe make a decision next week,” Bowhay said. “I have mixed feelings on it and I think the others do, too. I don’t know what the right thing to do is.” As far as BYE, the ambulance service began 40 years ago when Patterson Funeral Home in Elmwood dropped its independent service. Within three months, people in Brimfield, Yates City and the Elmwood area raised tens of thousands of dollars, elected a board and were in operation. Until 2005, BYE relied on contributions and fund raisers. A tax levy passed in 2004, and BYE received tax money starting in Fiscal Year 2005-2006. The service last year responded to 515 calls: 223 in Brimfield, 175 in Elmwood, 31 in rural Elmwood
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BYE Revenue BYE’s total 2011 revenue was $554,641, according to the non-profit organization’s federal tax returns; at the end of that year its assets (from Certificates of Deposit to 21 acres of donated farmland from which it can generate revenue) were $782,727. BYE’s annual federal tax returns from the last decade show income or loss (revenue less expenses) and accumulated assets: Year end income/loss assets 2011 $171,177 $782,727 2010 $118,645 $611,550 2009 $123,751 $492,905 2008 $22,460 $369,154 2007 <loss $13,426> $346,694 2006 $25,402 $360,120 2005 $19,145 $334,718 2004 <loss $19,657> $300,593 2003 $46,366 $320,250 The year ending 5/31/2012 is being audited, BYE treasurer Jerry Powers said.
and 86 in the Yates City area. Some Brimfield residents had approached Advanced Medical Transport of Central Illinois (AMT) to extend westward its service area, which already includes Kickapoo and Edwards, but that’s off the table, according to AMT CEO Andrew Rand. “We have been asked to cover the BYE area several times before, usually by fire department trustees, but the subject is closed after further community discussion,” Rand told The Weekly Post. “Providing a full-time, dedicated ambulance with paramedics 24/7 costs about $500,000 a year. Revenue from patient transports will cover likely half of the costs. The rest of the funds would require local taxpayer support.”
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s Craft night – Mother-daughter craft night is tonight at 6 p.m. at Morrison and Mary Wiley Library in Elmwood. Children must be at least 6 to attend. Craft will be decoupage plates. s Acts 29 drama team – The Acts 29 Drama Team Ministry group will perform at Crossroads Assembly of God Church in Elmwood on Sunday, July 14. The service begins at 10:30 a.m. and all are welcome to arrive early for refreshments and fellowship. Acts 29 is a student off-campus ministry team that spreads the gospel using contemporary worship.
Cross is looking for eligible donors of all types to give blood this summer to s Story hour – Little Zoomers story help avert a shortage, and a bloodmohour will be held Wednesdays in July bile is scheduled to be in Elmwood for at Williamsfield Public Library from donations on July 16, 1-6 p.m. at BYE 9:30-10:30 a.m. Crafts, stories, games Ambulance, 108 E. Hawthorn. and snacks will be provided for youngs Attorney speaks – Ryan Gammelsters age 3-5 who have not completed gard, an attorney with the Illinois Farm kindergarten. Backpack Bookworm Bureau, will be at the Peoria County Buddies is from 1:30-3 p.m. each Farm Bureau on Tuesday, July 16, Wednesday for youngsters who have from 10 a.m. to noon to speak on easecompleted kindergarten through fourth ments, drainage laws, the fence law, grade. Call (309) 639-2630. right of ways, and other topics that s Fiber guild – Bishop Hill Fiber may be of local interest. The meeting Guild meets Saturis open to both Farm Buday at 10 a.m. at the reau members and the Methodist Church in Publicize Your Event general public. No reserCall us at (309) 741-9790 West Jersey. Provations are necessary. gram for July is knit- or email information about Light refreshments your upcoming event to ting with a silk served. Call (309) 686news@wklypost.com. hankie with Char 7070. Rickey and Back to s Harvest Home fund raiser – A Basics Fiber Study. Call Char at (309) Harvest Home Festival fund raiser din472-7085 or spinwool7@aol.com. ner is Thursday, July 18 at the Yates s Elmwood band – Elmwood’s Mu- City Community Center from 4:30-7 nicipal Band plays Sunday at 8 p.m. in p.m. Cost is $8 for chicken pot pie, the gazebo in Central Park. biscuit, mashed potato, salad and s Blind date – Have a Blind Date dessert. The Harvest Home Festival is with a Book at Morrison & Mary Aug. 16-17. Wiley Library in Elmwood. Stop by s Brimfield historical society – and check out the display and choose a New members are welcome to the book to take on a blind date. Brimfield Historical Society’s meetFuture Events ings. The next meeting is July 23 at 7 p.m. at the Brimfield Library. s Blood drive – The American Red
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mitments to the community, and a unified communication tagline. The vision of Williamsfield Schools is “to enhance our community by providing innovative opportunities for growth.” Commitments adopted included: • maintaining high expectations for all; • providing everyone the opportunity to grow; • guiding students toward personally productive and successful lives; • providing a productive small school learning environment that hinges upon personalized instruction and learning opportunities.” The new district tagline is “where every child grows through innovative opportunities,” which will be prominent in all district materials. A second reading of an “early sell”
option of the Construction Trades house – the sixth built by students – was set for the board’s August meeting. If approved, bids will be accepted this fall. Completion of the house is expected by the end of the school year. The board also arranged for transportation for students participating in football and cheerleading this fall; subscribed to a hosting service for a new web site, which should launch by Aug. 1; OK’d an upgrade to the library collection system and entered into a 12-month subscription with Follett’s Destiny Resource Management Solution; hired Rick Hartz as full-time Technology Director and Amanda King as Middle School softball coach; and scheduled the district’s annual staff appreciation dinner for 6 p.m. on Aug. 15 at the Williamsfield American Legion.
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Area residents affected by April flooding who want to apply for federal relief now have until July 24 to do so, Illinois Emergency Management Agency officials announced after The Weekly Post’s deadline last week. The U.S. government granted the state's request for an extension from July 9. People in federally designated counties may seek grants and loans to help with recovery from the flood.
Gov. Pat Quinn said 35 Illinois counties are eligible for help after the addition of Warren and Putnam More than 49,000 applications have been OK’d, with $122 million in grants awarded to help people with flood-related expenses. Also, the U.S. Small Business Administration approved $25 million in disaster-assistance loans.
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Rambling through central Illinois pondering the blessed yet bittersweet end to another youth baseball season. uuu Someone once told me a good manager should hire and train Jeff employees so LAMPE well that in time the manager winds up without a job (or at least with very little to do). Judging by the space allotted this week’s column I am succeeding. ... If we have another week this packed with ads we will have to jump to 16 pages. Actually, that’s the goal, particularly as prep sports season gears up. No matter how many ads we sell, we will still provide
stories, pictures and more. ... Handrails and planters should be added to the Elmwood streetscape the week of July 22. uuu Speaking of the weeks ahead, my buddy Chef Todd has kindly offered to provide recipes for our Weekly Post readers. Chef sez he’s got an awesome tomato pie and a baked vidalia onion dish. I’m hungry already. ... Landmarks fascinate me and one that has caught my again eye lately is No Goat Farm on Princeville-Jubilee Road. I’ve heard a legend about the sign but would love to know the true story. ... We were on Princeville-Jubilee to attend Nick Unes’ Backyard Batting Cage (which I highly recommend – Unes will be a coach someday). Anyway, I feel the pain of folks
dealing with the bridge closed on Brimfield-Jubilee Road. Kind of brings home the point about our nation’s crumbling infrastructure. uuu On the flip side of crumbling infrastructure, my teeth barely rattled on my last drive down Meehan Road. Kudos for that to township road commish Dave Wagner. ... Some have asked if we are squelching police reports. No. But we seldom publish reports with no tickets, charges or injuries. ... Song of the Week: Modest Mouse’s “Fire It Up.” ... Parting shot: Working on a summer Sunday evening is no fun, but hearing a band play while you toil (as I am fortunate to do at TWP HQ) eases the sting. Thanks. Contact Jeff Lampe at 231-6040 or jeff@wklypost.com
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A balance between youthful exuberance and anxiety to experience and accept new ideas and practices, and the reluctance of those who are older to experience the discomfort of moving from established patterns, are integral to an intelligent society. For instance, the drafters of the U.S. Constitution recognized the need for both when they established an earlier miniMit mum age and BERES shorter terms for members of the House of Representatives than they did for Senators. The founders knew we would need young people who would vigorously pursue advancement, but be held accountable every two years for their decisions, and a second group that would be more deliberate and have the time to watch their decisions develop before they were held accountable.
The end result was Congress. I am a member of what a longago Peoria radio personality, Bob Carlton, called the “older youth group” – still young enough at heart to enjoy the prospect and fruition of a good party, but old enough to temper the enthusiasm about things labeled “the latest.” I have the most trouble with our cross-generational reliance upon social media as a primary form of communication. I have had people as young as my 13-year-old granddaughter and as old as my 70-year-old peers say with more than a little incredulity, “Didn’t you read my text?” The obvious answer is “No,” but that does not identify the true problem. I know of no way to be sure a text has been received by the right person unless that person answers. The same applies to e-mails: Once one has been opened we assume the person we wrote received it. Wrong. I have a frequent-flyer account with American Airlines and re-
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cently received an e-mail from the company, which I opened. It told me my upgrade had been granted for only $15. I did not even have a ticket booked! I looked further at the e-mail and saw the name of the man for whom it was intended. But I had opened it, and American Airlines was going to assume he knew. I sent a reply stating the error but realized my response was going to end up in a Spam filter. I am not opposed to the use of “social media” (although I have some problem with calling something that encourages people to avoid talking to each other “social”), but I know we need to be careful when we decide how much reliance to place on important information being received just because it was sent. I have been told repeatedly by many who are young, and some who are not so young, that I should text them if I have some information I deem is important for them to know. Wrong.
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Only insane people start newspapers I’ve been around for the birth of three different newspapers now: The Zephyr in Galesburg in 1989, the Weekly Post here in Elmwood earlier this year, and the New Zephyr in Galesburg, also earlier this year. Having been there at the start of these three, I can tell you without any fear of contradiction, people who start newspapers are Jon certifiably inGALLAGHER sane. Norm Winick and Todd Moore began the Zephyr, a public access newspaper in Galesburg in 1989. They had tired of the sanitized news reported by the Register Mail and started this alternative paper that would give the average Joe a voice in the community. It was a radical idea because they would print the opinion of anyone, even if they didn’t agree with it. Moore left the paper before their first year was out and Norm had some pretty lean times. Still, he continued to publish and only quit publishing after he was diagnosed with advanced cancer ... 22 and one-half years later. I started writing for Norm with issue number two. I saw their growing pains. I saw politicians who were suddenly scared because of deals they had going that weren’t quite on the up and up. I saw another elected official’s drunken joyrides reported on the front page. I saw unscrupulous business owners exposed on the Zephyr’s pages. No one claimed to read the Zephyr, but everyone somehow knew what was in it. Norm’s little paper routinely scooped the daily paper in town even though he only published once a week. When he did a story on a major chemical spill at Admiral/Maytag, the daily paper just sat back and wondered where he got the information that they didn’t even know about. Norm managed to turn his little
paper into a powerful voice in Galesburg, and before his run was over, made it a very well respected publication. I’m glad he didn’t give up. Galesburg needed the Zephyr. And that’s how I came to know Bill Knight. Over those 22 years, I wrote off and on for Norm, not missing an issue for the last three or so years. Bill Knight was one of Norm’s writers and until Norm told me, I didn’t even know he lived just down the street from me! When Jeff Lampe and Bill started The Weekly Post, Bill reached out to me to see if I’d be interested in contributing to it as well. Since the Zephyr had ceased to exist (as of December 2010), I jumped at the chance. I love to write and this was going to be fun. Again, it was a start-up newspaper in an area that needed a newspaper. The Journal Star has ignored Elmwood/Brimfield for the most part unless there was a tragedy here and then they’d report on it so they could sell papers in Peoria. Their sports department took it upon themselves to change the nickname of Elmwood’s sports teams twice in about a week’s period, changing the Trojans to the Indians, then to the Tigers. When called about it, they didn’t care. Instead of taking subscriptions to The Weekly Post like Norm did, Jeff decided to send it out for free and depend on advertising to pay the bills. That was a gutsy move, because there was no guarantee that businesses in our area would support this venture. As it turns out, that was probably the best way to do it. Everyone reads The Weekly Post. If I stop at Casey’s in Brimfield, I’ll have people recognize me from my picture Jeff posts weekly alongside my column. Same goes for Yates City and sometimes in Farmington. I hear more feedback on my column on a weekly basis than I got in 22 years with the Zephyr. People are reading. To me, that means businesses better be advertising or they’re missing out! After seeing the struggles that
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Norm, Jeff and Bill have gone through, I didn’t want to be left out. Earlier this year, I started up the New Zephyr, a revamped version of the newspaper that had served Galesburg for nearly a quarter of a century. I told you we’re insane. I charge for our newspaper – $1 per copy for 16 pages of news, opinion, sports and more. Our growth has been very slow, but steady. We have few ads, but that also is growing. And our readership is VERY loyal. We offer a print version and a pdf version that is sent out via email each week that has the exact same content as the print version. And I’m getting my first taste of dealing with readers personally. So far, most people have been pretty good about things, but my third week in business, I got a strange call. The lady on the other end of the phone wanted to complain that we hadn’t printed a notice of her group’s get-together. After listening to her read me the riot act for missing such an important event, I asked her, “Did you let us know about it?” “Well, no.” “Did anyone in your group let us know about it?” “No,” she said, “But you’re a newspaper. You’re supposed to have reporters who find out stuff like that.” We may all be insane for starting a newspaper from scratch. But with readers like that, at least we’re not alone.
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PUBLIC RECORD Motorcyclist ticketed for wreck, suspended license
Brandy Tomlinson, 40, of Peoria about 7 p.m. June 19 was eastbound on Southport Road when she lost control of her 1993 Yamaha motorcycle and ran into a guardrail. She was transported to OSF and ticketed for driving while her license was suspended.
Jeep rolls over on Kickapoo-Edwards Road
Jacob Gunter, 25, of Edwards about midnight on July 6 was southbound on Kickapoo-Edwards Road in Kickapoo Township when his 1999 Jeep Wrangler failed to negotiate a curve, drove off the road and overturned, police said. Gunter was thrown from the vehicle and transported to OSF. The Jeep was towed from the scene.
Motorcyclist injured by deer
John Williams, 45, of Dahinda was on a motorcycle eastbound on U.S. Route 150 in Millbrook Township when he struck a deer in the road, police said. Williams was transported to St. Mary’s hospital in Galesburg and his Yamaha motorcycle towed.
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ELMWOOD – Curtis Jones, 27, of Peoria about 4:30 p.m. July 3 was arrested by Elmwood police for failure to appear on charges of driving while license was suspended and other traffic citations. Responding to a call about activity at
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a vacant house on East Maple, police questioned Jones and two other workers, and discovered the outstanding warrant when checking their identities. Elmwood police transported Jones to the Peoria County Jail.
Two-car crash at Oak Run
DAHINDA – Mark Scheffert, 42 of Dahinda about 10:30 p.m. on July 3 was westbound on Lakeview Road at Valley View Circle in Oak Run when his 2006 Ford Explorer struck a 2001 Buick driven by Jennifer Vanzuiden, 22, of Clinton, Iowa. Vanzuiden’s car was forced off the road and Scheffert’s vehicle also came to rest off the road. No injuries were reported, according to the Knox County Sheriff’s Department. Both vehicles were towed from the scene. There are no traffic-control signs at the intersection, police said.
Police reports
• Donna Bantz, 25, of Laura on July 7 was booked into the Peoria County Jail and ticketed for Driving Under the Influence and failure to reduce speed. • Jesse Eldridge, 29, of Brimfield on July 4 was booked into the Peoria County Jail and charged with retail theft of more than $300. • Sonny Eldridge, 27, of Brimfield on July 5 was booked into the Peoria County Jail and charged with domestic battery. • Jerimay Keel, 24 of Elmwood on July 6 was booked into the Peoria County Jail and charged with assault, disorderly conduct and domestic battery.
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OBITUARIES Frances Bellis
GALESBURG – Frances Evelyn Botruff Bellis, 95, a resident of Seminary Manor and mother of a Williamsfield woman, died July 2. Frances is survived by her daughter, Merrily (Ralph) Sargent of rural Knoxville; eight grandchildren, including Amy (fiance, Jarod Dzekunskas) Harpman of Williamsfield; and nine greatgrandchildren. Funeral services were July 6 at First Lutheran Church, with burial in Oak Lawn Memorial Gardens. Make expressions of sympathy at www.watsonthomas.com.
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MORTON – Marilyn J. Bomhold, 88, sister of two Elmwood residents, died July 3 at the Apostolic Christian Restmor Home. She is survived by one sister, Florence (Kenneth) McAlister and one brother, Robert (Charlene) Wolschlag both of Elmwood; and a sister-in-law, Betty Wolschlag, of Bartonville. Services were July 6 at the Lutheran Cemetery in Peoria. Offer condolences at www.davison-fulton-bartonvillechapel.com.
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HOBART, Ind. – Michael O. Callahan, 52, of Hobart, brother
Today’s Obituaries
• Frances Bellis, 95, Galesburg • Marilyn J. Bomhold, 88, Morton • Michael O. Callahan, 52, Hobart, Ind. • Nancy Carson, 57, West Peoria • Dorothy Drake, 85, Pekin
of a Brimfield man, died July 2 at St. Mary Medical Center. He is survived by his wife, Linda (Martin) Callahan of Hobart; two brothers, William (Janet) Callahan of Brimfield, and Ronald (Dee) Callahan of Peoria; and two sisters: Dawn Gaylord of Montrose, Iowa, and Tina (Terry) Gibson of Argyle, Iowa. There was no funeral service.
Nancy Carson
WEST PEORIA – Nancy M. Carson, 57, aunt of an Elmwood woman, died July 6 at the Richard L. Owens Hospice Home. She is survived by her husband, Max Carson, in Peoria; her mother, Hazel Hamilton, of Peoria; two daughters, Tracy Koger and Heidi (Nate) Wessler; and one granddaughter, Shayla Wessler, all of West Peoria; one sister, Peggy
June crime report By BILL KNIGHT
PEORIA – The Peoria Sheriff’s Department released its monthly Crime Statistics Report for June for the seven Peoria County townships that are located within The Weekly Post’s circulation area: Brimfield city and township together had 6 accidents without an injury, 2 accidents with injuries, 1 theft, 1 criminal damage to property and 3 traffic tickets. Elmwood city and township together had 3 accidents without an injury and 3 traffic tickets Jubilee had 2 incidents of vandalism/criminal damFor The Weekly Post
age and 4 accidents without an injury. Kickapoo had 1 residential burglary, 2 drugrelated offenses, 7 thefts, 1 incident of vandalism/criminal damage to property, 1 accident with an injury, 10 accidents without an injury, and 15 traffic tickets. Millbrook had 1 accident without an injury. Radnor had 4 accidents without an injury, and 6 traffic tickets issued. Rosefield had 1 theft, 1 Driving Under the Influence citation, 3 accidents without an injury and 9 traffic tickets.
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Hamilton of Peoria; and three nieces, Michelle Dunn of Elmwood, Nicole (John) Bute of Lebanon, and Becky (Billy) Nugent of Clarksville, Tenn. A funeral Mass is scheduled for today at 10 a.m. at St. Mark's Catholic Church. Cremation will be accorded and burial will be at a later date in St. Mary’s Cemetery in West Peoria. Offer condolences at www.wrightandsalmon.com.
Dorothy Drake
PEKIN – Dorothy I. Drake, 85, of Pekin, grandmother of two Brimfield men, died July 8 at Pekin Manor. Surviving are one daughter, Leslie (Carl) Hauk of Pekin; one son, James (Julie) Drake of Bloomington; and three grandchildren, Nolan Drake and Sagan Drake, both of Brimfield, and Jarrod Cranwill of Pekin. Her funeral was July 10 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Pekin. Burial will be in Lakeview Cemetery in Pekin. Offer condolences at www.preston-hanley.com.
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their trip. They attended a question-and-answer session with the UNC women’s basketball team. Topics included what it takes to be a Division 1 athlete, NCAA rules, and stories about college academics, travel, competition, practice and teamwork. The girls also toured the campus and the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame and still have a little time for shopping. “It was a fun time for the girls. A great confidence builder and it opened their eyes to different types of basketball and cultures,” Blane said. Blane hopes to take a team to the camp every three or four years. “The girls have been fundraising over the past two years. It’s a pretty expensive camp,” he said. In fact, the junior high basketball program even pitched in some money to help the varsity team. Each player also paid part of their way. Next year, Blane wants to take the varsity girls to a Purdue camp, something a little closer. But he is also looking forward to a return to North Carolina. “Just knowing that they can play big schools under pressure has given them so much more confidence,” Blane said. “It’s made them stronger players and a stronger team.”
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Address Amount Grantor/grantee 16306 W. Brimfield-Jubilee Road/Brimfield $260,000 Ekhoff/Mattern 306 W. Southgate Drive/Elmwood $166,000 Selman/Goedeke,Roberts N. 1/2 Lot 2, Blk 1 Kellers Add/Millbrook $2,000 Johnston/Johnson Pt of NE. Qtr 13-10-7/Radnor $61,260 Cline/Simpson 100 W. Cedar Street/Elmwood $5,900 Astoria Fed S & L/Richardson,Eldridge E. 5 Acres of Lot 6 Jubilee Hills 3/Jubilee $89,000 Neubauer/Yang 135 E. Clinton Street/Brimfield $150,500 Mattern/Powers,Dibler Lot 56 in Timber Bridge Sub/Brimfield $37,000 Cross Creek Farms Inc./Beckstrom Pt of Lot 323 Car-Don Sec 3/Radnor $1,900 Nevlida/Idot 16600 W. Brimfield-Jubilee Road/Brimfield $115,000 Cross Creek Farms Inc./Sahm 6902 N. Ironwood Dr/Edwards $311,000 Signature Homes Bloomington/Fosburgh 13532 W. Route 150/Brimfield $148,000 Binder/Heinz 7022 N. Grand Fir Drive/Edwards $305,000 McMahan/Guidry 22621 W. Rosenbohm Road/Elmwood $160,000 Vaughan/Spainhower 22317 W. Rosenbohm Road/Elmwood $185,000 Hudson/Vaughan 3 Parts of NE. Qtr 10-10-7/Radnor $93,971 Harlan/Harlan 5 Parts of SW. Qtr10-10-7/Radnor $81,302 Harlan/Harlan 5518 W. Brookmere/Edwards $235,000 Grazanich/Souter 5717 W. Brookmere Street/Edwards $235,000 Holmes/Lanphear 614 E. Main Street/Elmwood $82,000 Yelm/Roedell,Homan 6221 W. Clairmont Court/Edwards $64,000 Summer Park LLC/Brooks 204 E. Butternut Street/Elmwood $48,500 Clark/May Pt of SE. Qtr Of NW. Qtr 7-9-7/Kickapoo $5,000 Shane/1st Farm Credit Services Flca Pt of SE. Qtr Of NW. Qtr 7-9-7/Kickapoo $5,000 1st Farm Credit Services Flca/Shane 7021 W. Challacombe Road/Edwards $249,900 Heinz (Cor-Tr)/Rosenbaum 6216 W. Diversey/Edwards $63,000 Summer Park LLC/Johnston Builders 7024 N. White Fir Dr/Edwards $252,000 Federal Home Loan Mortgage/Swanson Lot 4 Centennial Dev No One/Kickapoo $120,000 South Side T & S Bank/Dawson Lot 509 Sommer Place Sec 5/Kickapoo $107,000 Summer Park LLC/Ly 210 E. Cypress Street/Elmwood $122,900 Hayes/Short 303 W. Clinton Street/Brimfield $76,000 Stahl/Mckown 231 N. Washington Street/Brimfield $44,000 Ward/Mckown 405 N. Alma Court/Brimfield $162,525 Keemle/Cinnamon 415 E. Cypress Street/Elmwood $139,000 Spainhower/Wolgan,Reardon Pt of SE. Qtr 1-9-6/Rosefield $60,000 Stenger/Zinser 10107 W. Route 150/Edwards $128,400 Normoyle,Whyte/Updyke 5 Lots in Hunters Trail/Radnor $320,000 Fields Cross Jorgenson/Monge,Dean Bldrs 305 North Althea Street/Elmwood $80,000 Everbank/Long 6120 N. Kilkenny Drive/Edwards $343,700 Kott/Phillips NOTE: Listing reflects minimum of $40,000 for sale of residence.
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ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Tiffany Neff, Elmwood
Tiffany, “T-Bone” Neff stresses to younger, upand-coming athletes, “Don’t underestimate yourself; have confidence in yourself!” Good results and virtues happen when people believe in themselves. She employed this self confidence as a shot and disc thrower for the Lady Trojans track team since her sophomore year. Tiffany also played basketball and volleyball as a prepster. When she was in fifth grade, track coaches were interested, but Tiff didn’t like to run, so the throwing became a good fit. Along the way, her encouragement came from her mother Sherry Gorham, Michael Gorham, and teammate Cassidy Coulter. Tiff is a big Chicago Bears fan who plays flute in the EHS band and sings in the school chorus. In the very important academic arena, the various sciences are her favorite subjects. “T-Bone” will take her science interest to Carl Sandburg Junior College this Fall then eventually hopes to attend Western Illinois University to specifically study Zoology. During the summers, she contributes at the Faith Bible Camp. In her spare time, Tiffany enjoys listening and playing music. Her biggest thrills as a disc and shot thrower have always been beating her personal best distances. Tiffany Neff knows that can’t be done without self-confidence! – Phil Johnson
Stub Smith had short pro career ELMWOOD – Bill Tuttle is not the area’s only claim to Major League baseball. Another athlete born in Elmwood made it to the big leagues, but only for three games. James Abner “Stub” Smith was a 5-foot-6, 24 year old when in 1898 he was called up by the National League’s Boston franchise – then known as the Beaneaters before becoming the Braves (who moved to Milwaukee, then Atlanta). The shortstop batted 10 times, got one hit, and scored one run, got 15 chances in the field and had 5 putouts and 1 error. He played for other professional ball clubs (including the New Orleans Pelicans as in the photograph above right), but never returned to the big leagues. – Bill Knight
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FISHING: Catfish can be cooperative catch to shore. You will also be surprised at how many other species live in even small streams. For instance, there are stretches of Kickapoo Creek and the Spoon River that are very productive for smallmouth bass. One caveat for stream anglers is to get permission. Except for in navigable waters, permission is a requirement for wade fishing in Illinois. 2. Target catfish There are better times to catch catfish. But while many species don’t bite much in summer, catfish remain more cooperative even in the heat. So almost by default they remain a good option in ponds, lakes and rivers. And dipbait is a great choice for summer. 3. Go early & late Set the alarm and brave the mosquitos if you want to catch more fish in
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summer. And be ready to fish topwater baits for really enjoyable bass fishing in either of the low-light periods when fish are more active. 4. Fish frogs or punch Want another fun way to catch bass as the day wears on? Fish topwater frogs over weed mats. Toss on top and then wait – longer than you think you can – to set the hook. Or throw heavy jigs (up to 1 ounce or more) and punch through the weeds to the bass lurking below. In both cases, stiff rods and heavy lines are a must to get fish out of the slop. 5. Troll for crappie Instead of finesse fishing 30 feet deep for crappie (which also works in summer), try trolling 10-15 feet deep with crankbaits. If you are in a lake with plenty of papermouths, you should catch your share – and keep cool as the boat generates a breeze.
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Brimfield girls enjoy N. Carolina hoops voyage By GABBIE SLOAN
While summer is a break for girls’ basketball, Brimfield girl’s coach Jim Blane has different plans. Blane and all nine of the varsity girls recently returned home from North Carolina Team Camp, where they played teams from all over the country and from schools quadruple the size of Brimfield. The camp took place in Chapel Hill at the University of North Carolina. The Brimfield girls were in the top division out of nine and played eight games over three days. “UNC is a big place for basWeekly Post Staff Writer
ketball,” Blane said, “an All American school and a great school for women’s basketball.” The university is also known for its Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame. The girls headed to Chapel Hill late on Wednesday night and arrived on Thursday afternoon. Blane drove 16 hours straight through the night, arriving just in time for the first game. Brimfield finished the camp 4-4, playing teams from Colorado, Tennessee, Ohio, and North Carolina. One of the most memorable
games was against a team from Tennessee. The teams were tied with 2 seconds left, but a Tennessee player received a technical foul. The game came down to a free throw shot, which Brimfield used to win the game. “Coming from a rural school and playing schools with more than 2000 students was an amazing experience for the girls,” Blane said. “In most of the games, they were pressed for 20 minutes straight. It was pressure basketball.” The Brimfield girls didn’t just play basketball during Continued on Page 10
Brimfield’s girls basketball team poses in North Carolina’s Dean Smith Center (left to right): Front: Caitlyn Murphy, Kennedy Dura, Shayla McCormick and Kerrigan Dura. Back: Kenzie Schlipf, Ryleigh Keith, Ellen Kelch, Lauren Cramer and Hannah Wallace.
Westart playing in all-star game
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By JEFF LAMPE
BLOOMINGTON – Elmwood-Brimfield football standout Brady Westart has one last chance to hit the gridiron as a Trojan. Westart is playing for the West team in Saturday’s Illinois High School Shrine Game, held at Tucci Stadium on the campus of Illinois Wesleyan University. Game time is 6:30 p.m. The game will air on HighSchoolCube.com The Brimfield graduate is one of three running backs on the West roster, joining Davonte Willcox of Warren Westart Township and Brendan Stewart of Carlinville. Westart is the third ElmwoodBrimfield player to make the elite all-star game, joining Ryan Wilbur and Nate McFadden. “Most of the players (in the Shrine Game) are D1 guys,” EB coach Todd Hollis said. “It’s an honor.” Westart will play football for St. Cloud State in Minnesota this fall, where he is expected to play as a hybrid strong safety/outside linebacker. Westart helped lead EB to a second unbeaten regular season last fall, running for a school-record 2,097 yards. Hollis said he was just as valuable on defense. “Defensively, the things he sees out there allow him to make plays that other guys can’t,” Hollis said. “He started for us as a freshman and that does not happen for us now. He was fast and strong, but what got him on the field was he had a natural understanding of the game, especially on defense.” Weekly Post Staff Writer
A hot day on Kickapoo Creek provided plenty of fun on Sunday for Elmwood hawgers (left to right) Harry McFall, Colton Gorham, Riley McFall and Tom Gorham. Photo by Jeff Lampe.
Get more out of summer fishing By JEFF LAMPE
Summer’s here and the time is right for fishing. Right? Not really. Just because the sun is shining and you have free time doesn’t make summer a prime time to wet a line. Actually, the hot, steamy dog days of July and August are often a difficult time for anglers. Weekly Post Staff Writer
Here are a few ideas to help you catch more fish if you do head out in the heat. 1. Wade a stream Put on some old cutoff shorts and smelly shoes and head for a stream like Kickapoo Creek, which yielded the catfish pictured above last Sunday afternoon. While these cats – including the spawning 19-
pound flathead in the middle – were “hawged” out of deep holes by hand, moving water of a stream also helps rod and reel anglers. Catfish can usually be found in deeper holes around wood. Nightcrawlers and dipbait work well for those who aren’t eager to dive in to hand-fish their Continued on Page 11
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