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EDITOR’S NOTE: The recent celebra-tion of President’s Day seems a fittingtime to look back to a local speech byAbraham Lincoln.

By ROGER HIGGSFor The Weekly Post

Abraham Lincoln once spoke in Farm-ington. That is clear. Other exact detailsof that visit are less certain, though wewill try to spell some out here.

Lincoln’s speech in Farmington in1858 is described in the “History ofFarmington,” printed in 1984. But anexact date was not given and the exactdate does not appear in library resourcesat the Lincoln Library & Museum inSpringfield, the Lincoln Archives at KnoxCollege or at the Peoria City Library.

A study of three published reports: (1)History of Farmington, 1984; (2) “TheGreat Debates,” 1955, and the (3) Lewis-town History, published in the Farming-

ton Shopper on Aug. 17, 1955, supportthe conclusion that Lincoln spoke onAug. 18, 1858, in Farmington.

This writer has a personal interest in as-certaining the speech date, as his great-great-grandfather, Thomas Higgs ofTrivoli, was taking a load of grain to themill on that day and he and a son heardLincoln speak and shook his hand.

In 1858 Lincoln and Sen. Stephen Dou-glas were campaigning in Illinois for aseat in the U.S. Senate. On Oct. 7, 1858;Lincoln and Douglas had their fifth ofseven debates in Galesburg as part of thefamous Lincoln-Douglas Debate series.Some 10,000-20,000 people attended theOct. 7 debate.

Crowds were smaller for Lincoln’sFarmington speech. The following is anexcerpt from the “History of Farmington.”Abraham Lincoln Honors FarmingtonIt was on this type of road and by horse

and carriage that Abraham Lincolntraveled when he visited Lewistown andFarmington in 1858, when he wasrunning for Senator against Douglas. ...

Mr. Lincoln spoke at 2:00 pm; standingbetween the central pillars of the oldcourt house in Lewistown, to possibly 600

to 800 attentive listeners.It was here that Lincoln delivered the

glowing eulogy on the Declaration ofIndependence which by the suggestion ofthe London Times has become anEnglish classic.

Looking back at Lincoln’s visit to Farmington

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HOOPS HEATS UP

By JEFF LAMPEWeekly Post Staff Writer

ELMWOOD — DeannaCantu believes veterans shouldbe valued more than popularentertainment figures.

Others ob-viously agree.A speechCantu wroteand recordedon that sametopic recentlywon firstplace out ofmore than3,000 entries in Illinois for theannual VFW Voice of Democ-racy Contest.

This year’s theme was “MyVision for America.” Cantu’sselection was announced lastSaturday at a banquet inSpringfield.

“I was very surprised andpleased,” said Cantu, a senior

Cantu winsVFW statecontest

By BILL KNIGHTFor The Weekly Post

PEORIA – Nearly one year tothe day after Dillon Nolancrashed his truck in rural Elm-wood, killing 22-year-old JoshuaFuller of Trivoli, he’ll have a sen-tencing hearing before Judge Al-bert Purham after Nolan onTuesday pleaded guilty to leavingthe scene of an accident involv-ing a death and to aggravatedDUI.

The April 14 hearing will fol-low an agreement with prosecu-tors that his imprisonment won’texceed 12 years.

In court, Nolan, 22, of HannaCity, agreed with AssistantState’s Attorney Brian Fitzsi-mons’ summary of facts sur-rounding the accident discoveredlast April 16: that Nolan wasdriving a Chevrolet truck about70 mph on McClellan Road be-tween Brimfield and Elmwoodwith Fuller as a passenger, that

Nolan facesprison afterguilty plea

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Cantu

Known as agifted orator,this well-known paint-ing showsAbraham Lin-coln deliveringhis GettysburgAddress onNov. 19,1863 – fiveyears after hespoke inFarmington.

The prep basketball postseason is heating up for girls and will start on Monday for boys.Here Brimfield senior Kennedy Dura drives to the basket during Monday’s Class 1Asectional win over Mendon Unity. The Brimfield girls play for a sectional championshiptonight (Feb. 18) at 7 p.m. in Brimfield against Liberty. Photo by Collin Fairfield.

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As he was escorted on toFarmington, it was notedthat the delegates fromFarmington were: A.Marchant, E. Marchant,G.W. Gooch, A.G. Pine-gar, Eli Crawl, SilasBabitt, M. L. Hoffman,William Finley and A. H.Montgomery.

Upon arriving in Farm-ington, he was taken to aplatform beautifully deco-rated in red, white andblue, which was located infront of the old Capp’sHouse and here he deliv-ered another of his well-remembered campaignspeeches. During hisspeech, Thomas Higgsand another young manwere taking a load ofgrain to the mill and de-cided to stop and listen. They were not impressedwith this ungainly tower-ing figure until they lis-tened further, and they,like the rest of the towns-folk were held spellbound.

It seems apparent frommy research that the“young man” withThomas Higgs, was hisson, John WellingtonHiggs.

In an interview withHelen (Collins) Westerbyof Trivoli in 2004 for thebook: “The Genealogy

and Social History of theThomas Higgs (1809-1889) Family of Trivoli,Peoria County, Illinois,”she said her great-grandfa-ther, John WellingtonHiggs, at the age of 13shook Abraham Lincoln’shand after a speech inFarmington in 1858.

Following his speech,Lincoln left the podium toshake hands with severalpeople and, noticing a 3-year old girl, he picked herup and kissed her. Thischild was a daughter ofAhira Jones.

According to “The His-tory of Farmington,”

Mr. Lincoln spent thenight on East Fort Street,in the home of his oldfriend, Rev. John Wilkin-son, Pastor of the Episco-pal Church.

The little town of Farm-

ington went to sleep un-aware they were entertain-ing the future 16thPresident of the UnitedStates.

That point is open tosome debate.

According to “TheGreat Debate,” Lincolntraveled to Peoria after hisspeech and stayed in thePeoria House.

“The Great Debate” ac-count says Lincoln at-tended the Fourth DistrictRepublican convention onthe morning of Aug. 19.At 2 p.m. he spoke to3,000 gathered at the pub-lic square in Peoria.

The Lincoln Library inSpringfield was contactedin December, 2015, andasked about Lincoln’spresence in Farmington.

Ian Hunt of the Librarysearched their extensive

records and the only itemfound in the searchwas that Lincoln and SamWilkinson wrote eachother in June 1858.

So maybe Lincolnstayed in Farmington onthe night of Aug.18 anddrove to Peoria early Aug.19. Maybe he caught anearly train from Elmwoodto Peoria, as some ver-sions recount.

What seems most cer-tain is that Lincoln spokein Farmington on Aug. 18.And afterwards, he likelyshook the hand of my rela-tives.

The writer was born inTrivoli, the son of Gerald andEstella (Garlish) Higgs andlives in Apple River. A retiredagronomy professor, he haswritten nine genealogy andsocial histories of six familylines. He can be contacted [email protected].

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LINCOLN: Speech was at old Capp’s house

NOLAN: Prosecutors dropped 4 charges

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the truck left the road, went into a fieldand rolled over, that Nolan made no at-tempt to notify authorities but calledfriends who helped move the truck andalso transported Fuller to Fulton County,that Fuller was pronounced dead whenofficials were called the next morning,and that blood tests showed Nolan hadamphetamines and cannabis in his sys-tem.

Under the deal, prosecutors droppedfour other charges: leaving the scene ofan accident involving personal injuries, asecond aggravated DUI, obstructing jus-tice and reckless homicide.

The arrangement calls for whateversentence Purham imposes to run consec-utively, not to exceed 12 years in prison.

The charge of leaving the scene of anaccident involving a death is a Class 1felony with a penalty of 4 to 15 years im-prisonment; the charge of aggravatedDUI is a Class 2 felony with a penalty of3 to 14 years imprisonment.

Four other men linked to the crash stillface obstruction of justice charges andare scheduled to stand trial March 28.They are James Kosner, 22, of Peoria;Cotyjo Milliman, 21, of Elmwood;Michael Wilson, 21, of Farmington andWilliam Zamaro, 28, of Farmington.


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This Week’s Eventss Ladies Craft – Ladies 18 and older

welcome to Morrison and Mary WileyLibrary in Elmwood today (Feb. 18) at6:30 p.m. for craft night. Craft is aglass flower brooch. Registration re-quired. Call (309) 742-2431.

s Free Bread– Free bread available atElmwood Methodist Church Friday(Feb. 19) at 10 a.m.

s Adult BINGO –Adults welcome toplay bingo at 10 a.m. atSalem Township Li-brary in Yates City onFriday (Feb. 19).

s Energy Program –All welcome to SalemTownship Library inYates City on Tuesday(Feb. 23) to learn about energy savingtips with Ameren’s Kenny Blum. Pro-gram starts at 10 a.m. Call (309) 358-1678 with questions.

s Comedy Night – Members andguests welcome to Maple Lane Coun-try Club in Elmwood on Saturday(Feb. 20) at 8 p.m. for Comedy Nightfeaturing Jeff McDonald. $12 mem-bers, $15 guests. Space limited, call(309) 742-8212 to sign up.

s Historical Society – Elmwood His-torical Society Meeting is Tuesday(Feb. 23) at 7 p.m. at Lorado Taft Mu-seum House. Refreshments servedafter meeting. All welcome, continuesthe last Tuesday of the month. No

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Quotable – “I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder

in school so I could converse with those people.”– Dan Quayle

Illinois Press Association Member

Jeff McDonald will be in Elm-wood Saturday night (Feb. 20) hop-ing to make people laugh during

Comedy Night atMaple LaneCountry Club.

Given the nutti-ness of this year’spresidential elec-tion, I figuredpolitics would bea staple of hisroutine. Not so,said McDonald,

an Indiana comic who appearedhere last year and has headlined atcasinos and clubs around the coun-try.

“You can really split a crowd ifyou go up and do anti-Trump or

pro-Trump,” he said.Politicians could take a lesson

from McDonald, who prefers hav-ing a room united in laughter thanone divided by petty politics.

Not that he shies away from thechance to make fun of politicians,mind you.

“I was going to read PresidentClinton’s book, but all the pageswere stuck together,” he said, beforerattling off an anti-Hillary joke I en-joyed.

We’ll save that for his 90-minuteact, which McDonald said is “twiceas long” as most comics and will in-clude a variety of new material.

One subject matter he’s found in-teresting of late is his upbringing,including the time his mother

dressed him as tennis star BillieJean King for no apparent reason.

“I’m just glad (Billie Jean) took ashine to the ladies,” he said. “I fol-lowed in her footsteps.”

Or the time he broke his leg andhis father told him, “Walk it off.”

Overall, McDonald said he trulyenjoys smaller venues like MapleLane, where Dave Yates will openfor the 8 p.m. show. Tickets are $12for members, $15 for guests.

“It’s a great environment for acomedy show and people don’t feelpressured,” McDonald said. “Hey, Iwas sick for last year’s show and westill had a good time. People will gettheir money’s worth.”

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Who needs truth in propaganda, rhetoric?Propaganda is the art of choos-

ing what one says or writes tohave the greatest impact on manypeople.

Hitler is rec-ognized as themost effectivepropagandist ofthe last 100years.

He explainedthe effective useof the mediumvery simply – ithad to be easily understood by theleast intelligent member of the au-dience. He knew that meant ap-pealing to what the audiencemembers wanted to hear which

was accomplished by attackingwhat the audience recognized asthe greatest injustices and discom-forts it had endured.

He spoke to huge throngs whoresponded to his tirades againstthose who were perceived as theones perpetrating those injusticeswith responses cheerleaders wouldlove to elicit from their team'ssupporters.

None of it had to make anysense – it was purely visceral.

I began my tenure at the Univer-sity of Illinois in 1959. The re-quired freshman writing class wasRhetoric 101. I chuckled because Iwas familiar with the word rheto-ric. My ancient Greek ancestors

participated in rhetorical competi-tions that valued the effective useof words far above any concernfor the truth – truth was unimpor-tant.

Perhaps it was genetic, but myyears in high school debate in-cluded instances of saying whatsupported my position so well noone challenged the authenticity ofmy claimed sources (I might stillbe good at it, but I haven't tried inmore than 55 years).

I hope the reason for this op-edis obvious to all, but just in caseyou are wondering, listen to thebloviations of the presidential can-didates and the media who repeatwhat is said as if it is news.

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Many years ago, I was at a smallgathering offriends when theTV game show“Jeopardy!”came on. We allsettled in andbegan to watch.

There was oneguy there whowas absolutelyobnoxious. Heblurted out the answers (or was itquestions?) to all the questions (orwas it answers?). It didn’t matter ifhe was right or wrong; he alwayshad something to say.

About halfway through the firstround, one guest got up, walkedover to the guy, bent down so hewas face to face with him as he sat,and said, “Shut up. Just shut up.”

I didn’t realize I was being thatobnoxious, so, I shut up.

Yeah, I’m that guy you hate tohave in the room when “Jeopardy!”

is on. I’ve always been good attrivia games, I’ve got a fairly highIQ, and I’m interested in a wide va-riety of subjects. I figured that I’dbeen a good contestant on the show,should I ever be given the chance.

But that was in the days WAY be-fore the Internet. There wasn’t reallyanywhere you could go and look up“how to get on” a game show. Thegame shows themselves didn’t ad-vertise for contestants since theyhad more than they could manageanyway.

Imagine my delight when the pro-ducers of “Jeopardy!” announcedthat they’d be coming to Peoria insearch of contestants. You had tosend a postcard to them and they’dcontact you.

A few weeks after I sent in mypostcard, I got an invitation for aprescribed time and place in Peoria.I dressed up, complete with a tie,ready with my vast knowledge of alltrivial things and my wit, should my

intelligence fail me.When I walked into the location

where the “interviews” were to beheld, imagine my surprise when Ifound out that there were about 200other people who were there withme.

As it turns out, the 200 of us hadto take a test. It was to screen outthose dummies who didn’t deserveto be on the show. The test consistedof 50 questions. You had to answer36 of them correctly. You had 18minutes to complete the test. Thequestions were from 50 random cat-egories.

Their reasoning was that the aver-age champion answers 36 questionscorrectly during 18 minutes of airtime each day. If you couldn’t com-pete as a champion, they didn’twant you.

“Piece of cake,” I thought. I wasalready spending the money I wasgoing to win on the show.

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To the Editor:I am amazed that George Tanner

would use President Obama to ad-vance his argument against guns, asObama certainly hasn’t set any newhigh water-marks for credibility,honesty, or having strong compas-sion for innocent human life as hisstance in support ofabortion indicates.

His administration isthe first I recall want-ing to unconstitution-ally remove from thehands of the law-abid-ing American citizens,the same type of weapon his admin-istration intentionally and criminallyput into the hands of the Mexicandrug cartels. Then Obama used hispower to cover the scandal, and todate hasn’t come forth with an ex-planation or an apology to the fam-ily of Brian Terry.

The uniformed need to accept thereality that the weapons, which theyso feverishly oppose, existed withless regulation long before the ran-dom assaults on the innocent began.

Tanner mentions the school mas-sacres but doesn’t bother telling thereaders nearly all the school shoot-

ings, the assailant had at one pointin his life used mind altering anti-depressant drugs. Almost all of thestreet violence is a direct result ofAmerica’s drug culture.

Yet the uninformed want to blamethe obvious, the gun. Maybe theydon’t know that mixed-up minds

aren’t inept, as nearlyall attacks are wellplanned.

It is certain these as-sailants wouldn’t stayin their room and sulk,as evidence from otherparts of the world

where mass murder has been aweekly or daily occurrence, withoutthe aid of any type of gun proves.

With some effort America’s drugculture could be greatly reduced,such as a meaningful attempt tocontrol our borders, and done sowithout infringing upon the consti-tutional rights of the law abiding cit-izen.

– Robert Walter, LauraThank you to ElmwoodTownship Comm. CenterTo the Editor:

Elmwood and Brimfield baseball

and softball players of a variety ofages have now been making gooduse of very good equipment insidethe Elmwood Community Centerthe past four years. This is thanks tothe vision and work of Troy andEmily Roberts and the help of anumber of workers mentionedbelow.

These items include an indoorpitching mound, a pitching protec-tive “L” screen, a home plate mat,and – especially – a very, verydurable, length-of-the-gym battingcage that can be easily used thanksto cables installed on the ceiling. Allof this equipment has been em-ployed many times during themonths of cold weather by ballplay-ers in our area.

Along with the Roberts, wewould like to thank Fred Lantz,Dave Boland, Travis Fiser, ClaudeKeefer, Dave Hall, Bob Shoop,Kathy Shoop and Ron Tarter.

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NOTE: Charges are merely an accusa-tion. All suspects are presumed innocentuntil proven guilty in a court of law.

Edwards man sentencedto 6-month jail term

EDWARDS – Blake Roedell, 23,of Edwards on Feb. 9 was takeninto custody at the Peoria CountyCourthouse for a charge of leavingthe scene of an accident with greatbodily harm in connection with ahit-and-run accident last May thatleft a Hanna City bicyclist with afractured skull.

Judge Kevin Lyons sentencedRoedell to 180 days in the PeoriaCounty Jail.

Roedell was indicted by a grandjury in June and on Dec. 16pleaded guilty, court records show,for having left the scene on Farm-ington Road after the vehicle hewas driving struck Andrew Broad-way, 19.

A Peoria County Sheriff’sdeputy spotted Broadway’s bike inthe 7900 block of FarmingtonRoad and investigated, findingBroadway lying nearby.

When questioned, Roedell toldpolice he thought he’d hit a deer orother animal.

Roedell had faced up to sevenyears in prison on the originalcharges of leaving the scene of anaccident with an injury accident

and failing to give information orrender aid.

Court records show a disorderlyconduct charge against Roedell re-mains open from an April 2015 in-cident.Police charge two inFarmington meth bust

FARMINGTON – Agents fromthe West Central Illinois Drug TaskForce and officers from the Farm-ington Police Department on Feb.2 arrested two in connection with asuspected methamphetamine labon East Fulton Street, according toFarmington Police Chief CarlPowell.

Arrested and transported to theFulton County Jail were 19-year-old Nathan Walker and 20-year-oldShadow Jennings, both of Farm-ington.

Officers discovered items associ-ated with the manufacture ofmethamphetamine on the prem-ises, according to reports.Princeville motorist ticketed in crash

PRINCEVILLE – James De-vries, 65, of Princeville on Feb. 11was cited for an improper turnafter the 2002 Chevrolet Silveradohe was driving pulled out ontoPrinceville-Jubilee Road andforced another motorist off the

road, police said.That driver, 30-year-old Heide

Herrmann of Princeville, said shewas driving a 2013 Kia Sorentonorthbound on the road andswerved to avoid striking Devries,going off the road and overturning.

No injuries were reported.

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• Gale Linder, 65, of Princevilleon Feb. 10 was arrested for domes-tic battery and transported to thePeoria County Jail.

• Jill Eubanks, 49, of Canton onFeb. 7 was arrested by Farmingtonpolice on a burglary warrant fromLaSalle County and transported tothe Fulton County Jail.

• Brook Wittaker, 23, of Bar-tonville on Feb. 12 was arrested byFarmington police after a trafficstop and charged with possessionof cannabis, of drug paraphernalia,and of a controlled substance andtransported to the Fulton CountyJail.

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GALLAGHER: How many zeros in a quadrillion?Then they handed out the test.Uh-oh.Good thing I brought my wit.Here it is almost 30 years later,

and I still remember some of thequestions from the test.

What happens every 80 years orwhen someone hits a grand slam inbaseball?

Who was the vice president underFDR who spent the most time inthat office?

If you sail due north from CapeCod, what state to you end up in?

How many zeros in onequadrillion?

The first one was easy and cute. Four score.

The VP question was toughersince FDR had three. John NanceGarner was VP for two of FDR’sfour terms, followed by Henry Wal-lace and Harry S Truman.

I didn’t have a U.S. map with me,so I thought you’d end up in New

York if you sailed north from CapeCod. Not even close. The correctanswer was Maine.

I still don’t know how many zerosare in one quadrillion. Maybe Don-ald Trump will let me peek at hischeckbook some time so I can fi-nally answer it. I wrote somethingto the effect that I’d forgotten myown checkbook, hoping that my witwould bowl them over.

I don’t remember a lot of theother questions. It was all short an-swer, with just a couple multiple-choice. I didn’t even ANSWER 36,let alone get that many correct. Iwas hoping that they’d appreciatemy humor that I used on most ofthem and figure that if nothing else, I’d bring laughs to the show.

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game of “Jeopardy!” complete withbuzzers and everything.

I felt like slipping out the door,but that would mean that the other199 in the room would know that Ididn’t pass the stupid test. I was notgoing to embarrass myself, so I satthere.

They entertained us with a videotape of – what else? – “Jeopardy!”Less than a half hour later, the mod-erator came out with the results. Hecalled out three names. I felt bad forthose three because they were goingto have to walk out having failed thetest. Boy were they going to be em-barrassed!

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Guest speaker is Dr. Bud Stead-man, who started as Executive Di-rector of Baptist World Mission in2009. Prior to that he had served13 years as senior pastor for theCommunity Baptist Church inSouth Bend, Ind.

Also in attendance will be

Nathaniel Steinbart, who willpresent on the Mission Field ofKenya, Africa.

The event starts with a banquetat 5:30 p.m. on Friday (Feb. 19).Also that night, Steinbart andSteadman speak starting at 7 p.m.

On Saturday (Feb. 20), there is aladies brunch at 9 a.m. Steadmanand Steinbart will speak again onpresentation ministry starting at 6p.m.

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Sunday (Feb. 21). Sunday schoolstarts at 9:30 a.m., worship serviceis at 10:30, a fellowship dinner isat noon and the afternoon serviceis at 1:30 p.m.

Klinton Richerson, youth pastorfrom First Baptist Church inRochelle, will lead the music. Pas-tor Dennis Fitzgerald said therewill be special music each nightand offered “a warm welcome toall who want to attend.”

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Truro Township losing much of its BoardBy BILL KNIGHTFor The Weekly Post

TRURO – The Township Boardfaces a loss of three members as ofMarch 31, so remaining Trusteeswill have to recruit and appoint re-placements to fill the vacancies untilthe next regular election.

Supervisor James Ross and two offour Trustees – Randy Cemei andCasey Doubet – all said they won’tbe finishing their elected terms, ac-cording to Clerk Sande Wilkie.

In other business, Road Commis-sioner Ed Lewis said the Boardmust make a decision about saltstorage since it’s currently kept at anelevator with a hole in the back ofthe building, meaning the materialhas now hardened into a massivechunk that can’t be used. Trusteestabled further discussion.

Lewis also reported that he’sitemizing Township equipment forthe March meeting for the Board todetermine whether there’s any sur-plus equipment.Thousand Dollar Roadproject under budget

JUBILEE – The Township’s RoadDistrict received the final bill for theThousand Dollar Road project,which was good financial news,said Supervisor Steve Garnett.

“The project was completed for$59,295.58 less than bid price,”Garnett said. “The bid price was$564,303.24.

He added that although severalitems increased in cost, more ex-

penses declined from estimates. “The road base using recycled

concrete and asphalt rather thancrushed stone is an example,” hesaid. And “recycled materials wereconsidered at least equal if not supe-rior in quality.”

Also, an adjacent land owner re-quested no fence as was originallyplanned.

“The Township is very pleasedthe project has been completed andnone of the contingency plans werenecessary [nor] unexpected prob-lems raised the cost (and no loanfrom the Town Fund required),” hesaid.Kickapoo previews proposed budget

KICKAPOO – Trustees on Mon-day (Feb. 15) previewed a proposedbudget totaling more than $1.8 mil-lion for the fiscal year starting April1, and set a public hearing on theplan for 6:45 p.m. March 21 at theTown Hall.

Kickapoo’s Road District plans abudget of $1,392,300, and theTownship itself $496,100, high-lighted by adjustments requiredafter Peoria County cut back on as-sistance to Townships for joint con-struction projects on local bridgesand funding for legal services.

“The Road Commissioner [DanKelch, who was out of town] notesthat we’ve previously declared asurplus in the permanent road fund,but that’s changing,” said Supervi-sor Karl Koy.

One factor is that the County nolonger is underwriting as much.

“The County used to pay 75 per-cent and the Township 25 percent ofthese joint projects,” Koy said.“Now they’re only going to pay 50percent.”

The Township had been consider-ing improving a Richwoods Boule-vard bridge over Big Hollow Creek.

Legal services line items wouldbe boosted in both the General RoadFund and Insurance Fund for pend-ing and anticipated litigation.

The General Town Fund includesfunding for the Township Assessor’soffice ($36,800) and park ($70,600).Possible spending on Kickapoo’spark ranges from renovating theconcession building to replacingplayground equipment.

“The playground equipment wehave wasn’t designed for theamount of use we have,” Koy said,“so we’re looking at sturdier, ‘in-dustrial’ playground equipment.”

A total of about $137,000 is bud-geted in Special Projects and Re-serve Funds, which could be tappedif necessary, Koy said.Elba approves land sale

ELBA – Trustees last week ap-proved selling Knox County a 0.13-acre strip of land for $1 toaccommodate the County’s plan toreplace a bridge on Knox CountyHighway 11 on the Township’snorthern border, according to ClerkPhil Goedeke.

The board also rescheduled theMarch meeting to the 22nd.

Yates City making repairs, replacementBy BILL KNIGHTFor The Weekly Post

YATES CITY – The VillageBoard on Wednesday (Feb. 10) tooksteps to address infrastructureneeds, but a failed water pump re-quired costlier action.

Trustees unanimously approved abid of $9,130 from Massey Roofingof Hanna City to fix the roof of thewaterworks building, and also a$2,890 bid from Brian Allen Con-struction of Bartonville to renovatethe crumbling ramp to the Elba-Salem Fire Protection District fire-house on Main Street.

Village president Kenny Gibsonsaid spray-patching and tar andchipping work in the village is

planned for this summer, and offi-cials and engineers will examinelocal streets in May.

However, after Public Works di-rector Chuck Eiker on Feb. 8 dis-covered a malfunctioning boosterpump and the risk of a chlorineleak, an emergency purchase of areplacement booster pump wasmade, which Trustees OK’d. Thepump will cost $11,500 plus ship-ping from St. Louis, Eiker said.

Meanwhile, a fireworks ordinancewas approved with language track-ing state law, giving Police ChiefRandy Benson and officers the flex-ibility to issue $25 tickets instead ofpricier state violations. The ordi-nance goes into effect next month.

In other news, • Benson reported a donation

from the Knox County Sheriff’s Of-fice of a new defibrillator unit forthe police vehicle, adding that itsaves Yates City about $3,000;

• the Board renewed an agree-ment with Constellation EnergyServices to provide electricity for6.99 cents per kilowatt hour thoughMarch of 2016;

• Gibson said the gazebo restora-tion project has collected about$8,000 toward the initial $18,000cost of raising and rebuilding itsfoundation; and

• Benson said police activity inJanuary was 17 reports, 5 trafficstops and 5 warnings.

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PRINCEVILLE – Monday (Feb.22) is the deadline for reservationsfor tables at the PRIDE Adult TriviaNight at 7 p.m. Feb. 27 at thePrinceville Heritage Museum.

The event is a fund raiser forPRIDE (Princeville Resource Im-provement & Development Endow-ment), which awards grants toPrinceville teachers for variousclassroom materials and technology.

The Trivia Night cost is $100 pertable (of up to 8 people). Doors openat 6 p.m. and some refreshments will

be available to buy. Participants areasked to bring their own food, drinksand tableware – plus BYOB (“BringYour Own Brain”).

For questions or to register, phoneTheresa Snedden at 253-1640.

Edwards church goesback on the market

EDWARDS – The Bethel BibleChurch building here is back onthe market.

The December auction of the3,200-square-foot structure at 9728W. Powder Mill Rd. concludedwith a single bidder who said shehoped to start a children’s ministry.

The woman said she was fromBartonville but sought anonymityuntil the sale closed.

And now it won’t.“Her financing fell through,”

said Jerry Trecek, executive direc-tor of Peoria Rescue Ministries,which was to receive the proceeds.

For now, a warranty deed for thebuilding transferred ownership toPeoria Rescue Ministries, whichwill once again list the site withMaloof Commercial Real Estate.

The auction resulted in a $5,000deposit on a price of $55,000.

“We didn’t hold her to that,”Trecek said.

By BILL KNIGHTFor The Weekly Post

PRINCEVILLE – The Board ofEducation on Wednesday (Feb. 10)took another step in upgrading tech-nology in the District, approving a$8,900 purchase of data and powerports for the high school addition.

Bids for future technology needsare about $15,000 lower than the$50,000 budgeted, so the Districthas some options going forward.

“The remaining funds can be uti-lized for other projects within thescope of the construction project,”said Superintendent Shannon Dul-ing, who added that “$3,412.17 hasalready been approved to upgradethe new gym sound system, leavingaround $12,500.”

In a separate authorization indi-

rectly linked to improved technol-ogy, the Board agreed to cover an-nual library software fees of about$1,700 for library software installedwith a grant of about $3,000 fromthe Parent Teacher Organization.

Meanwhile, ideas for signage forthe construction project at a cost ofsome $23,000 was tabled, and aproposal to add a dimming functionto the new gym’s lighting failed forlack of a second.

In other news,• a 2008 bus damaged in a fire

earlier this month was totaled; theDistrict expects a $32,000 settle-ment. To replace its loss the Boardmay consider leasing a new vehicle;

• Board members distinguishedbetween construction “add-ons” –about which some critics have com-

plained – and unforeseen needs,such as the sewer injector, andpointed out that the current tax ratewas approved by voters and withoutthe community-supported differ-ence, District 326’s rate would becomparable to other area districts;

• the Feb. 23 Board meeting wasre-scheduled for Feb. 24, when refi-nancing/refunding bonds to preparefor a potential state property-taxfreeze will be discussed before pos-sibly deciding in March; and

• the new classroom addition andgymnasium continue to progress,and the contingency-fund balance ismuch improved, according to con-tractor P.J. Hoerr, which reportedexpenditures lower than estimated.The fund now stands at $32,991.67from an initial cushion of $350,794.

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Elmwood tables Mediacom dealBy BILL KNIGHTFor The Weekly Post

ELMWOOD – Discus-sion and consideration ofthe franchise agreementwith Mediacom Commu-nications Corp. was tabledTuesday, when the CityCouncil took action on afew minor topics due tolacking information andtwo absent aldermen.

Attorney StephanieSchmieg will bring a moredetailed draft of an ordi-

nance to the next meetingconcerning the City’s con-tract with Mediacom.

The Council did unani-mously approve EconomicDevelopment Officer DickTaylor attending the Illi-nois Institute of Rural Af-fairs’ 27th Annual RuralCommunity and EconomicDevelopment Conferencein Springfield.

The Council also dis-cussed ideas to address thenorth side of City Hall, but

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Cantu also earned$2,500 for her state win.

The daughter of Deanand Sandy Cantu,Deanna was also accom-panied at last Saturday’sbanquet by Dimitri Beresof Elmwood as a repre-sentative of Archie MilesPost 4724.

Beres said Cantu is thefirst state winner fromher local district.

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NOTICE OF SALENOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the CITY OF ELMWOOD will be ac-

cepting sealed bids until 4:00 p.m. on March 15, 2016, at City Hall, 201West Main Street, Elmwood, Illinois 61529, for the sale and purchase ofthe property described as follows, to-wit:

The South Half of Lot Numbered Four (4), in Block Lettered “U”, inthe Town of Elmwood, as laid out by William J. Phelps, now a Partof the City of Elmwood; situated in the County of Peoria and theState of Illinois;

Parcel Identification No.: 11-07-436-006;

Parcel Address: 210 South Magnolia Street, Elmwood, Illinois61529;

which is improved with a commercial building that the City has used asa senior center and as a meeting space for local civic groups and or-ganizations (hereinafter “the Property”). For additional informationabout the Property or to make an appointment to examine the Property,call City Hall by phone at (309) 742-2351. The sale shall be made onthe terms and conditions set forth in the Bid to Purchase / Agreementfor Warranty Deed forms available at City Hall at the address set forthabove, which terms and conditions include, without limitation, the fol-lowing:

1. Sealed written bids shall set forth the total purchase price andthe name and address of the bidder and shall be signed by the bid-der.

2. Seller shall require the successful bidder and their successorsand assigns to permit the American Legion Post #0638, the Veter-ans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post #4724, and the Elmwood SeniorCitizens Club to continue to use the building on the Real Estate as ameeting site without charge, which will be a perpetual covenantrunning with the land.

3. All improvements are sold “as-is”.

4. A minimum down payment of $1,000.00 in the form of acashier’s check made payable to “City of Elmwood” must accom-pany each bid.

5. The written bids shall be final, and no further bids will be con-sidered after the deadline for acceptance of bids. Seller reservesthe right to reject any and all bids.

Envelopes containing a bid with a cashier’s check in the amount of$1,000.00 shall be clearly marked “Bid for Purchase of City Property”and shall be received at City Hall, 201 West Main Street, Elmwood, Illi-nois 61529, on or before 4:00 p.m. on March 15, 2016. Sealed Bidswill be opened at the regular meeting of the CITY OF ELMWOOD sched-uled for 7:00 p.m. on March 15, 2016, at the City Hall.

John D. Hulslander, MayorCity of ElmwoodPeoria County, Illinois

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGON APPLICATION FOR AN AMENDMENTTO A SPECIAL USE PERMIT GRANTED TO

DAVID W. WILTZ, TO THECITY OF ELMWOOD ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS

The City of Elmwood Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a public hearingon Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. at the City of Elmwood CityHall, 201 W. Main Street, Elmwood, Illinois, on the application of DavidW. Wiltz for an Amendment to a Special Use Permit previously grantedin connection with a room addition on an existing residence on theproperty commonly known as 106 W. Ash St., Elmwood, Illinois (ParcelIdentification Number 11-07-278-002), with frontage on W. Ash St.,and legally described as the ‘TOWN OF ELMWOOD NE ¼ SEC 7-9-5E E75’ LOT 2 & E 75’ N ½ LOT 3 BLK C’ of the City of Elmwood, togetherwith adjacent rights of way. The applicant is the owner of the property.The applicant has requested an amendment to a previously grantedSpecial Use Permit with respect to the rear property setback require-ment for a primary structure.

By order of the Zoning Board of Appeals of the City of Elmwood, PeoriaCounty, Illinois.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON BRIMFIELD-MILLBROOK

MULTI-TOWNSHIPASSESSMENT DISTRICT BUDGET

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a tentative Budget and Appropria tionOrdinance for the BRIMFIELD-MILLBROOK MULTI-TOWNSHIP AS-SESSMENT DISTRICT, in the County of Peoria, State of Illinois, for thecalen dar year beginning January 1, 2016 and ending December 31,2016, will be on file and conveniently available to public inspection atthe home of BOBBIE PHILBEE, Multi-Township Assessment Clerk, whoresides at 21512 North Washington Street, Laura, Illinois, from andafter 9:00 O'Clock A. M., the 25th day of February, 2016.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN hereby that a public hearing on saidBudget and Appropriation Ordinance will be held at 6:00 O'Clock P.M.,on the 28th day of March, 2016, at the BRIMFIELD TOWNSHIP BUILD-ING, located on South Adams Street, in Brimfield, Illinois, in this Multi-Township Assess ment District and that final action on this Ordinancewill be taken by the Multi-Township Board of Trustees, at the Meeting to be held following the Hearing.

DATED this 8th day of February, 2016.BOBBIE PHILBEE, Clerk,Brimfield-Millbrook Multi-Township Assessment District.

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VARIOUS ROADS IN ELMWOOD TOWNSHIPThe Elmwood Township Road District (herein called "Owner") will re-

ceive sealed bids for SEALCOATING VARIOUS ROADS IN ELMWOODTOWNSHIP, located in Elmwood Township Illinois, until 4:00 P.M.,Tuesday, March 8, 2016, at the residence of David Wagner, ElmwoodTownship Highway Commissioner, 3603 North Wiley Road, Elmwood,Illinois 61529, whose telephone number is (309) 231-3774. Bids thatare mailed shall be sent to the same address.

The bids will be opened and read aloud at a public meeting of theElmwood Township Board to be held at the 111 West Main Street, Elm-wood, Illinois 61529, at 5:00 P.M. on the 8th day of March, 2016. TheContract Docu ments, including plans and specifications which providefor the payment of Prevailing Wages and furnishing a PerformanceBond are on file and may be examined or obtained by contacting theHighway Commissioner as above set forth.

No bid may be withdrawn for a period of Thirty (30) days after theopening of the bids. No bid bond will be required; however, the suc-cessful bidder, upon his failure or refusal to execute and deliver theContract within Fourteen (14) days after receiving notice of the accept-ance of the bid or upon is failure or refusal to execute and deliver thebond and furnish the Certificate of Insurance at least Fourteen (14) daysprior to beginning work on the project, shall pay to Owner, as liquidateddamages for such failure or refusal, an amount equal to Ten Percent(10%) of his bid plus reasonable attorneys' fees incurred for collectingsuch damages.

The Highway Commissioner reserves the right to reject any or all bidsand to waive technicalities. The Township of Elmwood Road District, inaccordance with the laws of the State of Illinois, hereby notifies all bid-ders that it will affirmatively insure that the Contract entered into pur-suant to this advertisement, will be awarded to the lowest, responsiblebidder without discrimination on the grounds of race, color or Nationalorigin.

All Contracts for the Construction of Public Works are subject to theIllinois Prevailing Wage Act (820 ILCS 130/1-12).DATED this 15th day of February, 2016.

DIANA HALL,Elmwood Township Road District Clerk

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VARIOUS ROADS IN ROSEFELD TOWNSHIPThe Rosefield Township Road District (herein called "Owner") will re-

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The bids will be opened and read aloud at a public meeting of theRosefield Township Board to be held at the 16221 West SouthportRoad, Brimfield, Illinois 61517, at 7:30 P.M. on the 9th day of March,2016. The Contract Docu ments, including plans and specificationswhich provide for the payment of Prevailing Wages and furnishing aPerformance Bond are on file and may be examined or obtained bycontacting the Highway Commissioner as above set forth.

No bid may be withdrawn for a period of Thirty (30) days after theopening of the bids. No bid bond will be required; however, the suc-cessful bidder, upon his failure or refusal to execute and deliver theContract within Fourteen (14) days after receiving notice of the accept-ance of the bid or upon is failure or refusal to execute and deliver thebond and furnish the Certificate of Insurance at least Fourteen (14) daysprior to beginning work on the project, shall pay to Owner, as liquidateddamages for such failure or refusal, an amount equal to Ten Percent(10%) of his bid plus reasonable attorneys' fees incurred for collectingsuch damages.

The Highway Commissioner reserves the right to reject any or all bidsand to waive technicalities. The Township of Rosefield Road District, inaccordance with the laws of the State of Illinois, hereby notifies all bid-ders that it will affirmatively insure that the Contract entered into pur-suant to this advertisement, will be awarded to the lowest, responsiblebidder without discrimination on the grounds of race, color or Nationalorigin.

All Contracts for the Construction of Public Works are subject to theIllinois Prevailing Wage Act (820 ILCS 130/1-12).DATED this 15th day of February, 2016.

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NOTICE OF ELECTION

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that at the General PrimaryElection to be held on Tuesday, March 15, 2016, thefollowing proposition shall be submitted to the votersof the City of Elmwood, Peoria County, Illinois:

For joining the Elmwood Rural Fire Protection Districtand assuming a proportionate share of bonded indebt-edness, if any OR Against joining the Elmwood RuralFire Protection District and assuming a proportionateshare of bonded indebtedness, if any.

The polls at said election will be open at 6:00 o’clockA.M. and will continue to be open until 7:00 o’clockP.M. of that day.

Dated this 15th day of February, 2016.Peoria County Board of Election Commissioners

CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF ILLINOIS

Peoria County, in Probate

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF )MELVIN V. COWLEY, Deceased ) No. 16-P-46

NOTICE OF CLAIM DATE

Notice is hereby given to creditors of the death of MELVIN V. COW-LEY. Letters of Administration were issued to ANITA M. WAGNER,whose address is 12321 Legion Hall Road, Princeville, IL 61559, asAdministrator, whose attorneys are CORDIS & CORDIS, Attorneys atLaw, 129 North Walnut Street, P.O. Box 445, Princeville, Illinois 61559.

Claims against the estate may be filed in the Circuit Clerk's Office, Peo-ria County Courthouse, Peoria, Illinois, or with the representative, orboth, on or before the *(see below) day of August 18, 2016, or if mail-ing or delivery of a notice from the representative is required by Sec.18-3 of the Probate Act of 1975, the date stated in that notice. Everyclaim filed must be in writing and state sufficient information to notifythe representative of the nature of the claim or other relief sought. Anyclaim not filed on or before that date is barred. Copies of a claim filedwith the clerk must be mailed or delivered by the claimant to the repre-sentative and to the attorney within ten (10) days after it has been filed.

Dated: February 11, 2016.

ANITA M. WAGNER, Administrator of theEstate of MELVIN V. COWLEY, Deceased

The Cordis Law Office, LLCAttorneys for Executor 129 North Walnut Avenue BY: (S) Kerry R. CordisP. O. Box 445 Attorney for EstatePrinceville, IL 61559309/338-4616

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OBITUARIESRichard Fidler

FARMINGTON – Richard J. Fi-dler, 65, of Farmington died Feb. 7at his home.

Survivors include his wife, Bon-nie (Morgan) Fidler; children Rickof Marcellus, Mich., Michelle(Jeff) Cornwell of Marcellus,Mich., Stephen of Pekin, and hisstepdaughter, Melissa (Scott) Rit-terbush of Walcott, Iowa; fivegrandchildren; and three siblings.

Dick loved sports in general, butthe Cubs and the Bears specifi-cally, and Ron Santo was his fa-vorite player. Dick played golf,fished, hunted and loved the out-doors.

A celebration of life was heldFeb. 13 at Anderson-Sedgwick Fu-neral Home in Farmington. Cre-mation was accorded.

Condolences may be left onlineat sedgwickfuneralhomes.com.

Bradley Wayne HallWILLIAMSFIELD – Bradley

Wayne Hall, 52, of Rock Falls, for-merly of Williamsfield, died Feb.10 at his home.

A 1981 graduate of Williams-field High School, he is survivedby sons Brandon (Tillie) Hall ofWilliamsfield, Bryan (BrandyBehrens) Hall of Sterling, andBlake Hall of Victoria; grandsonBraxton Hall; and brothers Barry(Karen) Hall of Knoxville andBruce Hall of Galva.

Funeral services were Feb. 13 atHurd-Hendricks Funeral Home &Crematory in Knoxville, with in-terment at Williamsfield Cemetery.

Condolences may be left onlineat www.hurd-hendricksfuneral-home.com.Benjamin John JohnsonWILLIAMSFIELD – Benjamin

John Johnson, 81, of Williams-field, formerly of Brimfield, diedFeb. 12 at Unity Point ProctorHospital in Peoria.

Survivors include his wife Bev-erly (Spies) Johnson; childrenBrian (Sharon Perdew) Johnson ofHenry, Lisa Johnson of McNabb,Bruce (Kara Strouss) of Chilli-cothe, Brandon (Becky) Johnsonof Magnolia; three grandchildren;sisters Eloise (Lyn) Laible andMarilyn (Rich)

Diefenbach, both of Princeville,and Bernice Towne, of Indiana;and brothers Harold (Carol) John-son of Streator and John (Elaine)Johnson.

Funeral services were Feb. 16 atUnion Church in Brimfield, withinterment at French Grove Ceme-tery in rural Elmwood.

Condolences may be left onlineat www.hurdhendricksfuneral-home.com.

Willard ParrFARMINGTON – Willard

“Willy” M. Parr, 84, of Trivoli, fa-ther of a Farmington woman, diedFeb. 7 at Farmington CountryManor.

Survivors include his wife, Cyn-thia (Passmore) Parr; daughtersLisa (Brad) Vallianatos of Farm-ington and Christine (Steve) Buccoof Trivoli; and four grandchildren.Services were Feb. 11 at Ander-

son-Sedgwick Funeral Home inFarmington, with burial at LeHighCemetery in Elmwood.

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Ronald J. Saal, Jr. PRINCEVILLE – Ronald J. Saal

Jr., 53, of Princeville, died Feb. 10at OSF St. Francis Medical Centerin Peoria.

Survivors include his wife, Oc-tavia Ward Saal; children April(Caleb) Knott, Autumn Saal, Han-nah Saal, Mathew Saal; stepsonWarren Ward; two grandchildren,Jayden and Elaynnah; his twin sis-ter, Renee (Marian) Lozowski;brother Jeffrey C. Saal; andmother, Judith (Richard) Powers.

Cremation has been accordedand services are pending.

Condolences may be left onlineat www.csmico.com.

Bessie SimmonsELMWOOD – Bessie Ann Sim-

mons, 73, of Peoria, an Elmwoodnative, died Feb. 9 at the OSFRichard L. Owens Hospice Homein Peoria.

Born in Elmwood on June 17,1942, a daughter of Vernon Darrelland Marianne Elizabeth (LaFal-lotte) Brown, she is survived bydaughter Theresa Ernst of Peoria;stepchildren Jeri (Mark) DuBois ofWashington, Rae (Michael Sr.)Yates of Peoria, Robert SimmonsJr. of Washington, Laura Bowlesof Creve Coeur and Kettra (Leo)Baker of Leroy; sisters JeanetteBridgman of Peoria and Sharon(Rick) Tannhauser of Creve Coeur;16 grandchildren; and 35 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were Feb. 13 atthe Northside Church of theNazarene in Peoria, with intermentat Swan Lake Memory Gardens inPeoria

Condolences may be left onlineat www.ClaryFunerals.com.

This Week’s Obituaries• Richard Fidler, 65, Farmington• Bradley Wayne Hall, 52,Williamsfield• Benjamin John Johnson, 81,Williamsfield• Willard Parr, 84, Farmington• Ronald J. Saal, Jr., 53,Princeville• Bessie Simmons, 73, Elmwood• Shirley Weaver, 86, Farmington• Gordon Wright, 67, Farmington

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Thurs. Bible Study: 7 pmUnion Church at BrimfieldUnited Church of ChristPastor Stephen Barch

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Bethany Baptist Church7422 N. Heinz Ln., Edwards

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Christ Alive! Community ChurchPastor Lance Zaerr

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Crossroads Assembly of GodPastor Tim Cavallo

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Sun. Worship: 10:30 amElmwood Baptist ChurchPastor Dennis Fitzgerald

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Sun Worship: 10:30 am, 6 pmWed. Prayer Meeting: 7 pmFirst Presbyterian Church

of ElmwoodReverend Marla B. Bauler201 W. Evergreen, Elmwood

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St. Patrick’sCatholic ChurchFather Paul Stiene

802 W. Main St., Elmwood(309) 742-4921

Sat. Confession: 3:45 p.m.Sat. Mass: 4:30 p.m.Sun. Mass: 10 am

Tues. Rosary: 8:15 amUnited Methodist Church

of ElmwoodPastor Bradley F. Watkins II821 W. Main St., Elmwood

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First Presbyterian Churchof Farmington

Reverend Dr. Linda Philabaun83 N. Cone Street, Farmington

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1102 N. Illinois Route 78

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420 E. Woertz, Princeville(309) 385-4487

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OBITUARIESShirley Weaver

FARMINGTON – Shirley AnnWeaver, 86, of Farmington diedFeb. 8 at Heartland HealthcareCenter in Canton.

Survivors include children Ken-neth (Cathy) Weaver of Trivoli andThomas (Deborah) Weaver ofCleveland, Ohio; grandchildrenDewayne (Kelly) Weaver of Ben-son, Andrea (Matt) Stufflebean of

Delavan and Alyssa Green ofFarmington; and seven great-grandchildren.

Services were Feb. 12 at Ander-son-Sedgwick Funeral Home inFarmington, with burial at AvonCemetery in Avon.

Condolences may be left online atwww.sedgwickfuneralhomes.com.

Gordon WrightFARMINGTON – Gordon

Wright, 67, of Farmington diedFeb. 10 at Prairieview NursingHome in Lewistown.

Survivors include brother Rollen(Glendale) Wright of Farmington;and sister, Janet (Roger) Jacksonof Macomb.

Cremations rites were, with aburial at Oak Ridge Cemetery tobe held at a later date.

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TOLONO – Farmington’s un-beaten season ended with a late 3-pointer.

Farmington (24-1) dropped afirst round Class 3A game toGreenville, 41-39, which got a 3-point shot with 50 seconds remain-ing to take the lead for good.

The Farmers led 30-25 afterthree quarters but could not holdoff Greenville (21-2), which playsfor third place today.

“We had our shots down thestretch, we just missed somelayups and had a cold shootingday,” Farmington coach MartyLozier said. “But these kids had agreat season and they are going tobe great high school players.”

Ben Martin had 16 points to leadFarmington and Blake Springeradded 11.

Farmington was just 2-for-15 on3-pointers and 5-for-13 from thefree throw line while Greenvilleshot 14-for-26 from the stripe.

The same group of Farmingtonplayers placed third last year in 8-3A and finished 22-3.

Farmington had advanced tostate on Feb. 10 with a 63-46 vic-tory against Mossville.

Also in last week’s Feb. 10 sec-tional finals, Princeville (15-7) lostto Ottawa Wallace (18-3), 32-26.The regional title was a first forPrinceville at the junior high level.Wrestlers at sectional

STANFORD – A pair of Farm-ington wrestlers competed in thesectionals Saturday at Stanford.

At 285 pounds, Jon Schmidgalldropped his two matches.

Tim Fultz wrestled at 106 andlost his first match to the eventualthird-place finisher, then droppedhis second match.

College signingsPRINCEVILLE – Princeville

seniors Bridget Talley and BrettDelbridge signed letters of intent

recently to play college sports.Delbridge will play football at

MacMurray College this fall andTalley will compete in volleyballat Aurora University.

Emerick 26th at trialsLOS ANGELES – Elmwood

graduate Dustin Emerick placed26th at the U.S. Olympic marathontrials held last Saturday (Feb. 13)in Los Angeles.

Emerick, who now lists hishome address as Evansville, fin-ished the 26.2-mile course in 2hours, 22 minutes and 18 seconds.Galen Rupp posted the fastest timeof 2:11.12.

Runners competed in recordheat, with the official temperatureat 66 degrees at the start.

Baseball, softball aheadOfficial practice for baseball and

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GIRLS: Elmwood hit eight treys vs. Brimfieldrival Elmwood. Unlike the regularseason contest 10 days earlier, thisgame was close all the way.

The Lady Indians led by three athalftime and by six after three quar-ters, but the Lady Trojans remainedpesky until the end.

Ultimately, Brimfield free throwsgot the job done. Dura’s 22 andThurman’s 17 accounted for morethan half of Brimfield’s points, butsignificant contributions in the veryclose game also came from fresh-men post players Camryn Swietekand Kamryn Cuevas, the top tworebounders.

“It was a back-and-forth game.Elmwood had no quit in them,”Blane said. “Along with the scoringof Kennedy and Nicole, Chloe,Shayla and Kenzie were very solid,and that inside play of our twofreshmen was really big.”

Brimfield won its regional openerlast Wednesday with a 53-23 vic-tory over ROWVA. Thurman’s 10points led a very balanced scoringattack.

ElmwoodElmwood’s 16-15 season ended

in the regional final against state-ranked Brimfield. In the 53-48 set-back, Elmwood connected on eight3-point shots, and the Lady Trojans’inside game kept Brimfield on itstoes throughout.

Regan McFall and Jordan Jonesled Elmwood in scoring with 12points each and both hit some big-time 3-pointers.

“We competed hard. Unfortu-nately, we struggled early in bothhalves on offense,” coach GreggMeyers said. “Regan and Jordan hit3s when we really needed them. Wejust couldn’t quite get over thehump in the fourth quarter.”

The Lady Trojans got to the re-gional championship game with a52-28 victory over North Fulton,mainly on the strength of a 19-3third quarter rout. Allie Meyers’ 22points and 13 from McFall helpedto lead the way last Wednesday.

Meyers led Elmwood in scoringfor the campaign at 11.0 points pergame. Rachel Jacobson was nextwith 8.1, followed by Morgan Led-better at 7.7 and McFall with 6.9.Meyers also paced the team in re-bounds at 11 rpg, followed by Led-better’s 5 rpg and Jacobson’s 4.3.Seniors graduating this season areNicole Collins, Jones and Ledbetter.

“This year players had to step upto fill the holes of four seniors whograduated last year, and they pro-gressed well. All players throughoutour program worked hard to im-prove, and it showed every game,”coach Meyers said. “By battling allthe way in a regional championshipgame against a team like Brimfield,we know we belong there.”

PrincevillePrinceville’s season of impressive

progress ended last Thursday withan overtime loss in the champi-onship game of the West CentralRegional, 44-41, to the host team.

The contest was tight all the waywith no distinct advantages until a6-3 deficit in the extra period. Bre-ana Bauman finished a stellar highschool career with 16 points andLucy Waid also scored double fig-ures with 13 for Princeville (19-12).

“It was free throws that hurt us.We really struggled there, the wholeteam did,” coach Johns Gross said.“It was a tough way to lose.”

The Lady Princes advanced to theregional championship on Wednes-day by besting Bushnell PrairieCity, 51-39. The difference was a16-6 second quarter advantage forPrinceville. Marisa Horton-Mezapaced the team with 16 points fol-lowed by 15 from Waid.

For the season, Princeville wasled in scoring by Waid’s 11.9 andBauman’s 11.5 per game. Waid re-bounded at a 10.3 clip, and Baumanhad 73 total thefts on the year, fol-lowed closely by Waid’s 71.

FarmingtonThe 13-17 Lady Farmers gradu-

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court. She led both vocally and byexample,” coach Jimmy Jordansaid.

Team leaders were Abbey Brownscoring at 9.8 per game, followedby Megan Gilstrap’s 9.6. Brown ledin assists with 60 total. She also wasthe steals leader at 60 total. Gilstrapgrabbed the most boards at 6.9 pergame, followed by Brown’s 4.3.


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76-35 on Tuesday.High scorer in all three games

with a total of 99 points was PhelanKelly, who poured in 39 at Abing-don, 33 against the Heights and 27versus Rushville.

Koby White and Jace Swietekhave also been in double figures thepast four games.

There should be plenty of shoot-ing to go around Friday againstFarmington (21-5, 11-0 Prairieland),which dropped a 54-52 decision toMonmouth-Roseville on Tuesday.

That was in stark contrast to lastFriday when the Farmers rolledWest Prairie 83-49 as Eric Higgsscored 24.

“(Trey) Swearingen and Higgs aredefinitely major threats offen-sively,” Carlson said of the Farmers. “They don’t have a lot inside, but Isaw them beat Annawan and theylooked very good in that game.”

ElmwoodAfter a rough outing against Illini

Bluffs back on Jan. 22, the Trojans(18-10) have won seven straight be-hind a variety of different scorers.

Tuesday’s high scorer was sopho-more Vince Lenzi, who tallied Elm-wood’s first 10 points and finishedwith 29 in a 60-58 win over PeoriaHeights at home. Isaiah Groeperadded 16 after having led the Tro-jans with 14 in a 41-31 win overNorth Fulton last Friday.

Elmwood closes the year at homeagainst Havana.

PrincevilleAnother hot team down the

stretch is Princeville (15-12), whichhas won six straight.

That includes Tuesday’s 65-57defeat of Ridgewood, when thePrinces were led by 25 points fromBrendan Streitmatter, 16 from NickKraft and 15 from Noah Bauman.

Princeville also downed Galva onFriday (56-43) and Henry last Satur-day (65-30).

Bauman was red hot from outsidein those games, hitting eight and

then six 3-pointers for 59 points.“I think the hoop looks like an

ocean for him right now,” coach JeffKratzer said. “He’s playing well andwe’re playing our best basketball.”

It has helped having Streitmatterback from a wrist injury, though heis wearing a bulky brace. Based onTuesday’s showing, that has not im-pacted his shooting.

Princeville closes vs. United Fri-day.

ROWVA-WilliamsfieldThe Cougars (19-10, 3-2 ICAC)

lost out on a chance to claim a shareof the Inter-County Athletic Con-ference title last Saturday in a 74-70defeat at Illini Bluffs.

Garrett Wight had 22 points andRicky McCreary scored 17 in thatgame.

Last Friday R-W rolled to a 77-51win over West Central behind 26points from Zac Smith and 23 fromMcCreary.

The Cougars close the season atAnnawan on Friday.

BOYS: Elmwood has won seven straightContinued from Page 16

Brimfield earned a No. 1 seed inClass 1A and Farmington was aNo. 2 in Class 2A heading intonext week’s postseason games.Here are pairings.

CLASS 1ALewistown Regional Monday, Feb. 22

• Game 1, 6 pm - (9) Bushnell-PC vs. (6)Illini Central• Game 2, 7:30 - (5) Peoria Heights vs.(10) Hartsburg-Emden

Wednesday, Feb. 24• Game 3, 6 pm - (2) Lewistown vs. Win-ner Game 1• Game 4, 7:30 - (3) Elmwood vs. WinnerGame 2

Friday, Feb. 26• Final, 7 pm - Winners Games 3 & 4• Winner to Bushnell Sectional, March 2, 7pm, vs. Concord Regional Winner.

Brimfield Regional

Monday, Feb. 22• Game 1, 6 pm - (9) Ridgewood vs. (12)Stark County• Game 2, 7:30 - (7) Princeville vs. (13)Galva

Tuesday, Feb. 23• Game 3, 7 pm - (1) Brimfield vs. WinnerGame 1

Wednesday, Feb. 24• Game 4, 7 pm - (4) Polo vs. WinnerGame 2

Friday, Feb. 26• Final, 7 pm - Winners Games 3 & 4• Winner to River Ridge Sectional, March1, 7 pm, vs. E. Dubuque Regional Winner.

CLASS 2AAthens Regional Monday, Feb. 22

• Game 1, 6 pm - (7) Illini Bluffs vs. (9)Midwest Central• Game 2, 7:30 - (6) Olympia vs. (12) Ha-vana

Tuesday, Feb. 23• Game 3, 7 pm - (2) Farmington vs. Win-ner Game 1

Wednesday, Feb. 24• Game 4, 7 pm - (3) Athens vs. WinnerGame 2

Friday, Feb. 26• Regional Final, 7 pm - Winners Games3&4• Winner to Beardstown Sectional vs.Pleasant Plains Regional Winner.

Monmouth-Roseville Regional Monday, Feb. 22

• Game 1, 6 pm - (8) ROWVA-Williams-field vs. (10) United• Game 2, 7:30 - (5) Mercer County vs.(11) Knoxville

Tuesday, Feb. 23• Game 3, 7 pm - (2) Kewanee vs. WinnerGame 1

Wednesday, Feb. 24• Game 4, 7 pm - (3) Monmouth-Rosevillevs. Winner Game 2

Friday, Feb. 26• Final, 7 pm - Winners Games 3 & 4• Winner to Princeton Sectional, March 2,7 pm, vs. Byron Regional Winner.

Brimfield boys top seed; Farmington earns a No. 2

Members of Princeville’s 15-7 eighth grade regional champion team are: Front row (left to right): CobeeCraig, Kyler Day, Aaron Calhoun, Carter Johnson, Brady Miller, Cody Thole and Sam Streitmatter. Back row(l to r) Christian Reiner, Mgr., Chance McManus, Michael Fuchs, Jayden Jones, Jarrett Hite, Tyus Hunt,Dean Dearing, Cole Daily and Adam Hurst. Not pictured: Head coach Chris Delbridge, Assistant coachesBill Phelps and Brock Streitmatter. This was the first Princeville junior high boys regional title.

REGIONAL CHAMPIONS

COON CONTEST

Participants entered in a first raccoon hunting con-test held by The Great Outdoors in Knoxville en-joyed a successful day outdoors earlier this winter.The same was true for the second coyote contest.

BOYS HOOPS POSTSEASON• Feb. 22 - Regionals start• March 1 - Sectionals start• March 8 - Supersectionals• March 11-12 - State Finals at PeoriaCivic Center

POMS: Six named scholar athletesof three trophy teams.

Heading into this year, Elmwoodhad to replace seven seniors fromits runner-up squad.

Other team members are AllyFrietsch, Grace and Maggie Harms,Gabby Haskell, Jenna Musgrave,

Gabby Ramirez, Anna Roberts,Dalein Schutz, Savannah Warnerand Paige Yurkovich.

Six Elmwood dancers were alsohonored as IDTA Scholar Athletes:Haskell, Musgrave, Warner,Roberts and both Harms sisters.


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Bragging rights and thePrairieland Conference title willbe decided Friday (Feb. 19) whenFarmington travels to Brimfieldfor a much-awaited end to theregular season.

Both teams were awarded toptwo seeds heading into regionalplay, both have topped 20 winsand both can put up points in ahurry.

The deciding factor in whowins, as it often is, may comedown to which squad plays betterdefense.

For Brimfield (25-2, 11-0Prairieland), the third-rankedteam in Class 1A, the past fewweeks have offered a chance to

buckle down on defense.While the Indians have scored

points aplenty, coach Scott Carl-son identified defending as thearea of greatest need – particu-larly against teams with potent 3-point shooting attacks.

“It’s been picking up a little bitand we’ve been tinkering aroundwith things a little,” said Carlson,who has used more 1-2-2 andeven some 2-3 zones this year.

He has also experimented mov-ing players around in the scheme.The strategy seems to haveworked in the past few daysagainst lesser competition.

The Indians topped PeoriaHeights 82-50 last Friday,downed Rushville-Industry 67-43on Saturday and routed Abingdon

By PHIL JOHNSONFor The Weekly Post

BRIMFIELD – Kennedy Dura set thetone moments after the opening tipoffMonday.

After Mendon Unity took possession,Dura came up with a steal and a basketto put Brimfield ahead on its way to a69-59 sectional win.

The Lady Indians (27-6) kept onrolling from there toearn a Class 1A sec-tional final showdownat home Thursday at 7p.m. against Liberty,which topped Big-gsville, 61-30.

Dura went on toscore 17, dish 12 as-sists and grab 12 re-bounds for a triple double. KenzieSchlipf also tallied 17 while NicoleThurman and Shayla McCormick eachhad 12 and Chloe Bowe scored nine.

Host Brimfield raced to a 24-11 ad-vantage after one quarter thanks mostlyto turnovers forced by a 2-2-1 full-court

press and hot shooting by Schlipf fromthe perimeter.

The big lead did not last, though, andthe Lady Mustangs got as close as 29-25near the five-minute mark of the secondquarter. But Schlipf answered with atrey for a 32-25 bulge and Dura startedfinding open teammates to regain a 40-27 edge.

Unity continued to play hard, butseven points was as close as they couldget with 23 seconds remaining as Brim-field continued to sink key free throws.

“We felt we had to correct a recentproblem of first-quarter woes, so weworked on starting with different offen-sive sets and even changing our pre-game warmup routine,” coach Jim Blanesaid. “We continued to answer any mo-mentum they had. I think we’re playingloose. Getting past the difficult matchupof overcoming Elmwood to win the re-gional seems to have taken off pressureon us.”

Brimfield won the ROWVA Regionallast Thursday with a 53-48 decision over

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Brimfield in sectional finalFast start helps in win over Mendon girls


SPRINGFIELD – TheElmwood pom-pon teamenjoyed an unexpectedsurprise last Saturday bywinning third place at theIllinois Drill Team Asso-ciation state finals.

Competing in the PomA Division, Elmwood’s“Spy” routine was votedthird out of eight teamsqualified for state – put-

ting Elmwood ahead ofseveral schools they hadplaced behind this season.Only state champ QuincyNotre Dame and run-nerup Wesclin placedahead of Elmwood.

“We just wanted toqualify and when theywon third it was prettyexciting,” coach EmilyRoberts said. “Last yearmy heart was broken. Wehad the best routine there

and placed second.”This year helps make

up for that, Roberts said.The trophy adds to a

growing collection thatincludes finishes of sec-ond last year, fourth in2014 and fifth in 2013.

Senior Alaina Clark hasbeen part of trophy-win-ning teams all four of heryears, Roberts said. AndPaige Koll has been part

Elmwood poms third at state

Farmington, Brimfieldto clash for Prairieland

Schlipf

Here are members of Farmington’s eighth grade 3A sectional champion team. Front Row(left to right): Ty Anderson, Corbin Rutledge, Kyle Peckham, Chase Whisenand, LogenHughes, Ben Behrens and Riley Embry. Back Row (l to r): Coach Roy Swearingen,Coach Matt Swearingen, Ethan Evans, Blake Springer, Ben Martin, Jaden Rutledge, Dal-ton Powell, Quinton Fultz, Aundre Whiteside, Jez Rodriguez and Coach Martin Lozier.See story Page 13.

SECTIONAL CHAMPIONS

Members of Elm-wood’s third-placepoms team are: Frontrow (left to right): Day-lon Schutz, AlainaClark, Paige Koll andAnna Roberts. Middlerow (l to r): GabbyRamirez, SavannahWarner, Ally Frietschand Grace Harms.Back row (l to r):Jenna Musgrave,Maggie Harms, PaigeYurkovich and GabbyHaskell.


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