September 2018 The Independent Sports Club of Central Illinois Volume 74, Issue 2

The ISC BULLETIN Organized to help provide Central Illinois youth the best sports programs in the country!

Proudly serving our community since 1945.

23rd Annual Smoker set for Oct. 17 Wardle, Underwood set to appear at annual event

The Independent Sports Club of Central Illinois will host its 23rd annual Smoker on

Wednesday, October 17. This year’s event will once again be held at the The

Warehouse on State, a great banquet and event space in the Warehouse District of

downtown Peoria.

Hungry for college basketball insight? The sold-out crowd of more than 300

college basketball fans never leave disappointed. Or hungry. This is also a big

night for the ISC garnering new membership by those in attendance.

Following tradition, this year’s featured guests are Bradley men’s basketball coach

Brian Wardle and Illinois men’s coach Brad Underwood. Journal Star sportswriter

Dave Reynolds and former JS sports editor Kirk Wessler are again expected to

handle the Q&A portion of the evening.

Planning for the Smoker is six months in the making. Among the tasks

undertaken by organizers include scheduling the venue, the coaches, the

emcees, the caterers, securing sponsors, design/production of schedule magnets

as well as event ticket allocation and distribution.

The Warehouse on State is connected to Thyme Kitchen and Craft Bar at 736 SW

Washington. They will handle the catering this year, with beverages provided by

Baumgarten Distributing. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., with the program scheduled to

start at 7 p.m.

The annual fundraiser will feature various drawings and raffles, including our $50

cash raffle - top prize of $1,500 – and a pair of Bradley men’s basketball upper bowl

season tickets. To be added to the wait list for 2018, contact Jeff Doeden at (309)

453-3633 or Bill King (309) 369-5128.

Stay up-to-date with the ISC.

ISC Website www.iscpeoria.com

“In the News” Smoker on for 23rd year: The signature

event continues to be the premier affair

for Bradley & Illini hoop fans.

ISC Capital Improvement Grants

awarded: The ISC gave away nearly

$8,000 in facility update grants. Page 2

ISC Scholarship winners announced:

Nearly 90 applicants were narrowed down

to eight winners of the ISC college

scholarships, again tied for the most

recipients in the 22-year history. Page 2

Steak Fry date set for Nov. 15: Join the

ISC on Nov. 15 at the Lariat Steakhouse

to honor the past presidents. Page 3

ISC Welcomes 36 New Members: We

are proud and happy to introduce the 36

newest ISC members. See if you know

any of the new guys. Page 6

Turkey Time: Enclosed in the

September newsletter are three $5 raffle

tickets for the Annual Fall Turkey Raffle.

Find out more details on how to win a

holiday bird. Page 7

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Six Capital Improvement Grants awarded

The Independent Sports Club of Central Illinois knows that

youth sports organizations periodically need to make

permanent improvements to their facilities.

The ISC awards Capital Improvement Grants, also known as

“bricks and mortar” grants, for projects like dugouts, storage

buildings, etc. The application process includes a committee

review of each organization.

Eight Awarded ISC Scholarships For the 22nd consecu-

tive year, the ISC

awarded college schol-

arships that now total

more than $91,000

since the program’s

inception in 1997.

Nearly 90 applicants

from graduating sen-

The application period for an ISC Capital Improvement

Grants runs annually from Aug. 1 until July 31. The

application can be found on the ISC website at

iscpeoria.com. The ISC is here to help provide financial

assistance for youth organizations in need of facility updates.

iors at Tri-County area

high schools were re-

ceived this year, mak-

ing for another diffi-

cult job for the

selection committee.

2018 winners, front (l to r): Erica Shangraw (Washington), Abbi Taylor (Peoria Christian), Natalie Bardwell (Eureka), Francesca Verville (Dunlap). Back (l to r): Rich Moore (ISC), Peyton Schoonover (IVC), Sam Hedrick (Brimfield), Jake Bachman (Eureka), Justin Monge (Dunlap), Jeff Doeden (ISC).

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This year the ISC will be awarding Capital Improvement

Grants to the following organizations:

Chillicothe Rugby Football Club is seeking to construct

a new 8’x16’ storage shed. The ISC voted to award

$1,000.

Richwoods Youth Baseball is seeking new dugouts for

Diamond #3 at Kellar. The ISC voted to award $1,750.

Peoria Area Water Wizards is seeking to repair the

Central Park Pool diving well. The ISC voted to award

$1,750.

Peoria Christian Center is seeking to replace batting

cage nets. The ISC voted to award $700.

PND Youth Softball is seeking new dugouts and to

resurface the Lindbergh fields. The ISC voted to award

$1,250.

Peoria Friendship House is seeking new hoops and

backboards for on-site gym. The ISC voted to award

$1,250.

Scholarship committee chairman Rich Moore has developed a

detailed selection process that awards points based on three

main criteria. 1) Varsity sport participation and awards. 2) Aca-

demic achievements including class rank, GPA and ACT score.

3) Participation in clubs, activities, church, community service,

etc. Extra points can be earned by submitting additional infor-

mation such as a resume, letters of recommendation or a personal

essay.

After all applications were scored, the best applications were

reviewed by the scholarship committee. Four boys and four

girls – two each from large schools and two from small

schools -- were selected to receive $1,000 each.

This year’s winners were Erica Shangraw (Washington),

Abbi Taylor (Peoria Christian), Natalie Bardwell (Eureka),

Francesca Verville (Dunlap), Peyton Schoonover (IVC), Sam

Hedrick (Brimfield), Jake Bachman (Eureka), and Justin

Monge (Dunlap).

The ISC salutes this year’s scholarship recipients and all the out-

standing student-athletes who submitted applications. Best of

luck in your future endeavors.

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ISC Steak Fry on Nov. 15 Help the ISC kick off the holidays by attending the annual Steak

Fry, which honors our past presidents.

Hosted by ISC board member and past president Ron King, this

year’s event is Thursday, Nov. 15 at the Lariat Steakhouse on

Glen Avenue in Peoria. We will not have a guest speaker this

year, but many games of chance will be played throughout the

evening.

The event is sure to be an enjoyable night. Other activities

include our annual Turkey Raffle, tip boards and a 50/50

drawing. Dinner includes appetizers, a ribeye steak cooked to

order, baked potato, salad, rolls, soft drinks and draft beer.

Cost to attend is $35. Doors open at 5 p.m., with dinner scheduled

for 6. Please join us for what has become a fun night and a

great way to start the holiday season. Contact Ron King at

309-922-3291 to RSVP.

www.iscpeoria.com

Have you been the Independent Sports Club of Central Illinois website – iscpeoria.com?

We would also like to let the ISC membership know that our club is on Facebook. Please like our page, ‘Independent Sports Club of Central Illinois’.

Our domain is www.iscpeoria.com. The site is up and running, updated with all the latest, newest as well as older

information about ISC activities and events, club history. See photos, view a list of those we serve and recognition for those who support us.

But the site also gives us the capability to receive applications from new members, grant recipients, scholarship candidates and

those seeking funds for capital improvement projects. It allows us to accept online payment for membership dues, event fees, raffle tickets, Super Bowl and NCAA squares, etc.

ISCPeoria.com allows our club to provide membership with digital option. Our hope is that a stronger online presence will help us become better organized. The ISC wants to be able to utilize various social media platforms to attract, engage and retain new members.

Good Luck to the ISC Steve Malpede

Michael G. Strode William C. Voorhees Fred C. Wernsman

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Newsletter Advertising —— We rely on selling advertising space to offset the cost of

printing. We are now mailing the 4 newsletters a year to 450-

500 people. If you or the business you work for would like to

place an ad in our newsletter, contact Jim Stoner at 309-

369-6201 or isc1945@att.net. Business card size is

$150/year and ½ business card size is $75/year. Selling these

ads frees up funds that allow us to provide more financial aid

support to Central Illinois youth sports organizations.

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Chris Dillon — 2005 Dave Rees — 2006 Ron King — 2007 Tom Christiansen — 2008 Dan Kelch — 2009 Matt Meyer — 2010 Randy Perau — 2011 Bill Molleck — 2012 Ron King — 2013 Rich Moore — 2014 Jeff Doeden — 2015 Geoff Smith — 2016 David Hunt — 2017

Jeff Goranson — 1991 Barry Burns — 1992 Tony Ward — 1993 Bill Houlihan — 1994 Bill King — 1995 Dave Roszak — 1996 Bill Voorhees — 1997 Tom Christiansen — 1998 Pat Smarjesse — 1999 John Floyd — 2000 Rick Duda — 2001 Steve Malpede — 2002 Roark Williams — 2003 Jeff Shaw — 2004

Chuck Biggins — 1976 Jim Moran — 1977 Dale Clague — 1978 Carl “Duke” Krei — 1979 Chuck Kerr — 1980 Mike Stout — 1981 & ‘82 Roger Friend — 1983 Russell Platt — 1984 Don York — 1985 Jack Sullivan — 1986 Bill Miller — 1987 Mike Stout — 1988 Jimmy Spears — 1989 Larry Dunn — 1990

Art Whitworth — 1962 Howard Taylor — 1963 Cliff Coddington — 1964 Jim Shea — 1965 Larry Schwenger — 1966 Andy Paul — 1967 Bert Born — 1968 Len Turchi — 1969 Dan Papich — 1970 Walt Dunbar — 1971 Mark Olson — 1972 Gene Fangmeier — 1973 Ed Dwyer — 1974 John Noll — 1975

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ISC Past Presidents

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Drawing for Bradley Men’s Basketball Upper Bowl Season Tickets will be at ISC Smoker

Enclosed in the September Newsletter are three $5 raffle tickets for a pair of Bradley

men’s basketball upper bowl season tickets. One winner will be announced on Wednesday,

Oct. 17 at the 23rd annual ISC Smoker.

Make sure you put your phone number on the ticket(s), so we can notify you

if you’re not attending the Smoker. You don’t have to present to win. The

ISC will also hold a live auction at the Smoker for a pair of Bradley men’s

basketball lower bowl season tickets.

In their fourth year under coach Brian Wardle, Bradley opens its 2018-

19 season with an exhibition game against Carroll University on Nov.

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Independent Sports Club

P.O. Box 5776 Peoria, IL 61601-9998

OFFICERS

BOB JOSEPH President 688-4918 — H

CHRIS PETERSON Vice-President 565-7313 — O 265-8558 — C

ADAM DUVALL Secretary 253-0716 — C

JIM STONER Treasurer 682-8822 — O 369-6201 — C

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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RON KING 922-3291 — C

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GEOFF SMITH 691-1657 — H 222-4031 — C

JEFF DOEDEN 453-3633 — C

ANDY WEEKS 657-1133 — C

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Financial Grants Awarded Much of the discussion at the monthly

board meetings held by the

Independent Sports Club is dedicated

to awarding financial grants to those

applicants and voting on new ones.

Local organizations who have recently

applied and been awarded grant money

include …

Thanks! Special thanks to ISC newsletter advertisers and corporate sponsors

ISC would like to thank our newsletter advertisers and corporate

sponsors for their continual unselfish financial support in our

quest to help provide Central Illinois youth the best sports pro-

grams in the country. In that endeavor, recent years have seen us

Dunlap Recreation Association Richwoods Youth Baseball

disperse $25,000 - $40,000 per year in the form of grants and

scholarships to individuals and organizations involved in Cen-

The Christian Center; Washington PD; Brimfield Youth

Baseball/Softball; Future Stars Biddy Basketball; Pekin

Union Mission; Peoria Officials Association; Shade

Memorial Youth Camp; All Reds Football Club; Peoria Notre

Dame JFL; Dunlap JFL; Peoria Notre Dame Youth Softball;

Peoria Friendship House; Peoria American Legion

tral Illinois youth sports. It is your financial support in buying

newsletter advertising or participating in various requests for

corporate sponsorship at some of our fund raisers that allows us

to offset the expense of printing the newsletter or putting on the

fund raisers. ISC would not have year-after-year success with-

out your assistance. Again, thank you for your support!

MIKE MURPHY 565 WEST JACKSON STREET MORTON, ILLINOIS 61550 PEORIA (309) 673-3500 MORTON (309) 263-2311

FAX (309) 263-2722

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New ISC Members Welcome to the following 36 new members who have signed up since the February newsletter. We look forward to seeing you at up- coming ISC events. Your continual involvement is instrumental to the success of our endeavor to provide financial support to youth sports in the tri-county area.

Dimitri Almasi, Colton Anderson, Brian Asbell, Doug Doeden, Bob Eaton, Shawn Franklin, Drew Eilts, Matt Geary, Paul Grafelman, Allan Gresham, Mark Hammerl, Rich Herrmann, Roby Javoronok, Ron Johnson, Kevin Kokinda, Devin Miller, Chase Molchin, Fletcher Molchin, Richard Niesfedt, Gary Norton, Gerard O’Donnell, Tyne Podabinski, Darrick Riley, Steve Schafer, Glyn Scholl, Tony Shadid, Brian Shemansky, Clifford Smith, Dennis Smith, Tim Stell, Jason Stuckwisch, Chad Wagner, Brett Wieser, Adam Wilken, Tim Williams, Greg Jaeger.

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September 2018 Official Newsletter of the Independent Sports Club of Central Illinois Page 7

Turkey Raffle Tickets…Get ‘em in!! Halfway Club winners drawn

Eat Steak!

Delicious “gobblers” just before Thanksgiving!

Enclosed with this newsletter are three $5.00 tickets for the Annual

Congratulations to the eight lucky Halfway Club winners for

taking the time to purchase a raffle ticket, which allows the ISC

to support youth sports. This year’s raffle was drawn

at the August board meeting.

The winners were Jim Spears (January),

Fall Turkey Raffle. Ten winners will

be drawn at the November Steak Fry. This traditional long-term raffle has been very

successful in generating funds that allow ISC to support youth sports in the tri-county area. As you read this, 10 fine turkeys are “giving it their all” to make this ISC raffle a big success!!! So do your part by sending your ticket stubs and $15.00 back in the enclosed envelope. Make sure you put your phone number on the ticket so we can notify you if you’re not planning on attending the Steak Fry. Tickets can also be purchased at the Smoker and the Steak Fry.

Mike Molchin (February), Robert Doyle (March),

Joe Stieglitz (April), Thomas Duncan

(May), Ken Lynch (June), Don King

(July), and Joe Basso (August). We do

thank all for supporting our raffle.

Each year we mail all different sets of raffle

tickets to the membership in the quarterly

newsletters, which totals about 10,000 mailed

tickets. From this process, we receive approximately 250-300

entries, and with supplemental sales at the golf outing, usually

generate between $1,500 to $1,700 in revenue. Deducting the

expense of the tickets and prize itself, the proceeds are just one

of the many ways we can provide financial aid grants to youth

sports organizations in central Illinois.

But we would really like to improve on the 10% return rate we

have on these raffles. This newsletter contains two sets of raffle

tickets – Bradley men’s basketball upper bowl season tickets

and free turkeys. If everyone would mail back just one from

each set, we would raise nearly $8,000.

Support youth sports and participate in these raffles. Just like the

Lottery, you can’t win if you don’t play.

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8 of this newsletter and mail it, along with your $20.00

check, to the ISC at P.O. Box 5776, Peoria, IL 61601-9998.

Thank you.

Call out to unpaid members For the last three years we have had approximately 250

people listed on our membership roster who have not paid

their $20.00 annual dues. The unpaid remain on the list

because they had previously been paid members. They have

not been removed because the ISC does not want to give up

on the chance that they might remit the $20.00 annual

membership cost when they receive the new dues letter in

January. Each one of these unpaid former members is on our

mailing list and continues to receive our newsletters. We are

reaching out to you in hopes you will consider renewing your

$20.00 membership and help us provide Central Illinois

youth with the best sports program in the country. When

you are finished reading this, fill out the membership form

on page

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Peoria, IL 61601-9998

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