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Director ofAirports topresent at

ChillicothePublic Library

On Sept. 12, the Chilli-cothe Public Library will host Director of Airports Gene Olson for a pre-sentation about flight in Peoria. Olson will talk about the two airports operated by the Metro-politan Airport Authority of Peoria, give a brief his-tory of aviation in Central Illinois, and discuss the opportunities and chal-lenges of airline service today. A Q&A session will follow the presentation.

“What’s Going on at Peoria Airport,” will take place on Thursday, Sept. 12 at 6:30 p.m. Chilli-cothe Public Library is located at 430 N. Bradley Ave., Chillicothe, Ill., 61523. For more infor-mation and to register for programs, please visit chillipld.org or call 309-274-2719.

Daisy Award Winner named at OSF Children’s HospitalOSF HealthCare

Children’s Hospital of Illinois is pleased to an-nounce the most recent winner of the DAISY Award, which recog-nizes outstanding nurs-ing care. Winners are nominated by patients and their families.

The March 2019 Daisy Award was presented to Alexis Smith from Chillicothe. She works in the Pediatric ICU. Her nomination from the family member of a patient reads:

“Lexi was phenom-enal. The only thing

that kept us sane and calm was Lexi. She was so sweet and kind. She made us feel better each and every night and al-ways reassured us that everything would be fine.”

The Daisy Award is a national endeavor that recognizes exemplary professional practice among nurses. OSF Saint Francis was the first hospital in the Mid-west to participate in the program. Nurses who win receive a spe-cial pin and a bouquet of daisies. Alexis Smith, middle, is the Daisy Award winner. COURTESY PHOTO

South School improvements heard at 321 Board meetingAt South School, the Illi-

nois Valley Central District 321 Board of Education heard about the school’s improvement goals from principal Shaun Grant.

Grant outlined three goals of increasing stu-dent performance by three percent in the area of ELA on the IAR assessment; increasing student perfor-mance by five percent in the area of the IAR assess-ment; and utilizing the district’s and community’s resources for sustainable positive behaviors through

PBIS and SEL interven-tions, and a successful implementation will be based on an annual teach-er/parent survey that will be reviewed by the leader-ship team.

Grant noted that these have been South’s goals for two years, but are focused on raising those percent-ages for this year.

South’s new initiatives for the year were also dis-cussed, which included the school’s new arrival and dismissal procedures.

“In the past, we have ex-

ited or entered in through three or four doors, so we are now bringing everyone in and out through the front doors because it’s a safety measure,” Grant said.

Following Grant’s pre-sentation, Will Irvin dis-cussed some safety mis-conceptions and progress with the board regarding the district’s potential, fu-ture trap shooting club.

After hearing Irvin’s updates on multiple safe-ty concerns, number of participants and require-

ments to join the poten-tial club, Board President Mike Birch said more discussions amongst the board and IVC District Superintendent Dr. Chad Allison are needed before decisions can be reached.

“We want to make sure we know how to do this and do it right the first time, so we don’t have is-sues for the second year … but no decisions have been made yet,” Birch said.

In other business the board approved the fol-lowing items:

• The ap-proval of an intergovern-mental agreement with Schools of Illinois Public Cooperative (SIPC) • The ap-

proval of the Helen Jordan Truitt Scholarship Chari-table Trust — restated agreement • The per-

sonnel reportThe next public meeting

of the 321 Board of Educa-tion will be held at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10 at Chillicothe Elementary Center.

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Pin to Win Scott Schultz Scholarship FundraiserOn behalf of Scott

Schultz’s family, we would like to thank everyone

who donated towards this fundraiser held August 11, 2019 at the American Le-

gion in Chillicothe. We had such a fantastic array of raffle items. We could

not have done it without all these donations. Also, thank you to Whiskey Riv-

er Band and to everyone who attended.

Cathy Schultz

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Area families give back by helping build a Ronald McDonald HouseBy Leslie RenkenGateHouse media Illinois

The Ronald McDonald House near Lurie Chil-dren’s Hospital in Chicago provided tremendous sup-port and comfort to Adam and Christine Simmons while their infant son, Bowden, fought and lost a six-month battle with can-cer in 2016.

Today the Ronald Mc-Donald House is still pro-viding comfort as the pair work through the grief. They are both deeply in-volved in the effort to bring a Ronald McDonald House to Peoria.

“It’s been so helpful put-ting our focus and energy into something that will help others,” said Adam Simmons while touring the construction site Monday morning with Julie Locke, co-chair of the capital cam-paign and a board mem-ber for the Peoria Ronald McDonald House. “At one of the first meetings we went to we were asked to share our story. I got up and talked, and I got emo-tional. Someone said ‘a thing like that could break a man.’ I’m not broken any-

more, though I still have my rough days.”

While he spoke, Sim-mons stood in a family suite dedicated to his son. The house will contain 22 of the little suites, each with a living room, sepa-rate bedroom and bath. Bowden’s suit is one of five “hero suites” honoring spe-cial individuals or groups. Bowden’s mother is choos-ing the decor for the room, and plans to include a caricature of Bowden. The Simmons had the cartoon drawn during an outing to Navy Pier late in the course of Bowden’s treat-ment. They asked the art-ist to draw their son as a superhero with the help of photographs and a quick look at their Bowden, who was in a stroller covered with a blanket.

“Bowden was doing so well he was released from the hospital, and Navy Pier was just three or four blocks, so we took him out in the stroller and had a nice night out,” said Sim-mons. “The caricature re-ally captured his person-ality — he was never not smiling. He was just the happiest kid.”

Later that night Bowden spiked a fever, and several weeks later, at the age of 9 months and 11 days, he died.

The heartbroken couple, who had been living in Na-perville, moved back home to central Illinois with their 2-year-old daughter Harp-er. Looking for a way to give back and honor their son, they soon learned about efforts to bring a Ronald McDonald House to Peoria.

“I was the one who orig-inally contacted Ronald McDonald Charities to bring a house here,” said Locke, whose son, Dax, died in 2009 of acute my-eloid leukemia, the same cancer Bowden had. “Five years ago I said I was gonna build something if someone else didn’t.”

The Lockes had stayed in a Ronald McDonald House in Memphis in 2008 and 2009 when Dax was treat-ed at St. Jude Hospital.

“We were so blown away by what we saw in Mem-phis, I said ‘why isn’t there one here?’” said Locke.

Adam and Christine Simmons met Locke for the first time for lunch at

Granite City Food & Brew-ery in the summer of 2017. They immediately bonded over their shared experi-ence and goal.

“We were meant to be together for this project,” said Locke. “They were the first people that joined our committee — global had already approved that we could build.”

There was still a lot of work to be done — a site had to be found and a fundraising campaign launched. Today the ef-fort has achieved more than 80% of the goal, with about $1.5 million left to raise. And the house is taking shape. It’s due to open at the end of Novem-ber, with a grand opening celebration scheduled for Dec. 16.

“This is where the guest kitchen will be for groups to come in and cook for families,” said Simmons while walking through the first floor of the four-story building. “It was amazing, the groups that came in and made every lunch and dinner. And if you came home late at night, there was leftovers you could re-heat. It was very com-

forting.”The seating area will

feature a long table where families sit together and discuss the day’s events. A few smaller tables are also available for couples who don’t have the energy to talk.

“The kitchen quickly becomes the life-force of the house,” said Simmons, who lived in the Chicago Ronald McDonald House for about five months. “It’s where you share victories and comfort on rough days.”

The house will also have toy rooms for both patients and their siblings, laun-dry facilities, and day ser-vices for family members who aren’t staying in the house.

“They can come in and take a shower and eat,” said Locke.

The house is projected to serve about 700 families in the first year.

Leslie Renken can be reached at 686-3250 or lrenken@pjstar.com. Fol-low her on Twitter.com/LeslieRenken, and sub-scribe to her on Facebook.com/leslie.renken.

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Willis Lee Haare

Willis Lee Haare, age 89, of Chillicothe, passed away on Monday, Aug. 26, 2019 at Apostolic Christian Skylines in Peo-ria.

Will was born on Sept. 9, 1929 in Beardstown, Ill. to Guy Forest and

Irma Dell (Rob-inson) Haare. He married his high school sweet-heart, Norma

J. Kuhl-mann, on Oct. 15, 1950 in Beardstown. She preced-ed him in death on Dec. 12, 2014. Also preced-ing him in death are his parents; one daughter, Carol; and his brother, Eugene.

Surviving are his daughters, Janet Perez of Chillicothe, IL, Kath-leen (Robert) Donath of Chillicothe, IL and Sharon (Bill) McCarthy of Wake Forest, NC; 11 grandchildren, Eli (Mor-gan) Perez, Nathan Perez, Joel (Brittany) Perez, Rachel Perez, Megan (Jason) Morrell, Joshua McCorkle, Hannah (Dy-lan) Zindel, Isaac (Cassie) McCorkle, Molly (Kyle)

Ingraham, Jacob Mc-Carthy and Hayley Mc-Carthy; and four great-grandchildren, Gabriel, Isaiah, Ezekiel and Selah.

First and foremost, Will loved his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. He served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War before working as a line-man for CILCO. After 45 years, he retired as Manager of Electrical Operations. Will was a member of Chillicothe Bible Church and Pearce Community Center. He enjoyed fishing, snowmo-biling and was an avid St. Louis Cardinals fan. Will loved spending time with his family and he was very active in his grand-kids lives. He and Norma never missed a game or activity that the grand-kids were involved in.

Services were held on Friday, Aug. 30, 2019 at 11 a.m. at Chillicothe Bible Church. Rev. The burial was at Chillicothe City Cemetery. Memo-rials may be made to Chillicothe Veterans Memorial Project or to the charity of the donor’s choice. Arrangements were handled through Weber-Hurd Funeral Home in Chillicothe. Online condolences may be made through www.weberhurdfuneralhome.com.

Julia Farquharson

It is with great sor-row that we announce the death of Julia A. Farquharson, 63, for-merly of Chillicothe, who resided in Punta Gorda, Florida since her retirement from

teaching at Chilli-cothe elemen-tary Center in 2012.

Julia was

born April 18,

1956 to Kenneth and Carol Bornheuer in Chillicothe, Ill. Julia was immensely happy to receive letters of gratitude from former students and cherished every one of them. Julia was happiest while in her yard, gardening or simply enjoying nature, especially watching the bobcats in Florida. Julia loved the Chi-cago Cubs and enjoyed watching soccer.

Julia will be deeply missed by her daugh-ter, Jenny (Floyd Wombacher; son Paul (Stephanie) Farquhar-son; brother Michael (Cynthia) Bornheuer; aunt, Mary Lee Bliss; four granchildren Chloe, Charlie, Eva and Beck and many cousins, nieces and nephews. Julia was preceded in death by her parents; sister Debbie Deyo and her husband of 22 years Robert.

Visitation and me-morial service were held Friday, Aug. 16 at Larry Taylor Funeral Home in Punta Gorda, Reverend David deSilva presiding.

Because of Julia’s love of teaching, she wished any memorails be sent to assist the teachers at CEC Grade School, 914 W. Truitt Ave., Chilli-cothe, Ill. 61523.

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sept. 5Men's Club DinnerThe Men’s club of the Chillicothe First United Methodist Church invite you to join them for din-ner on Thursday Sep-tember 5th at the VFW hall 1729 N. Santa Fe Ave in Chillicothe. Dinner feature a pork chop sand-wich with coleslaw, potato chips and a pickle spear for $7.00. Dinner will be served from 4:30 – 7:00 PM. Eat in or take out will both be available!

sept. 10Chillicothe Circle serviceChillicothe Circle of Service will meet at the Chillicothe Public Library on Tuesday, September 10, at 5:30 p.m. After dinner members will hear from Elaine Snyder about her “Mission to Mexico.” For additional information about Chillicothe Circle of Service, or to join the club, contact Linda Krider,

274-5796.

now-octoberPeoria History ToursHistory is on the move once again. Our June tours are A Glimpse of Grand-view Drive and Springdale Cemetery Tour, on Fridays at 11:30. On Saturdays at 1:30, we offer the Roll Out the Barrel Tour. In July we offer the River City Tour at 11;30 on Fridays and the Naughty to Nice Tour on Saturdays at 1:30.This year we have revised the Grandview Drive/Springdale tour to take in only a portion of Grand-view to allow for more time at Springdale Cem-etery. Tickets may be purchased by calling the Peoria His-torical Society office, Tues-Friday at 309-674-1921, by going on the PHS Fa-cebook page, or by visiting the PHS office at 611 SW Washington. Tours are still offered at $15 per person for a 1 ½ hour tour. We will offer “Tours Plus”again for each final tour of the month. As an extra treat on June 28, the Grandview-Springdale Tour will offer a quick look into the Springdale Mausoleum, normally not open to the public. For the Roll Out the Barrel Tour

on June 29, we will make a stop at Tannins & Hops speakeasy.Our certified guides are waiting to tell you the fas-cinating stories of Peoria’s past.

sept. 6Chapter nsDAR MeetingThe Chief Senachwine Chapter NSDAR will hold its opening meeting for the 2019-2020 chapter year on Sept. 6, 2019. Mem-bers are to arrive at 1:00 at the Wheeler Family Museum on Senachwine Valley Road to view the Indian artifacts collected over many years by the Wheeler Family. George Wheeler will guide the tour. Members will also visit the gravesite of Chief Senachwine and view the marker placed there by the Sons of the American Rev-olution on June 13, 1937. Following the museum tour, members will return to the Henry Public Li-brary for refreshments and their business meeting.

sept. 7Lori's Kitchen Annivesary

Lori's Kitchen Store is hosting their 11-Year Anni-versary Celebration on the Square in Washington, IL, on Saturday, September 7, 10 am - 4 pm. They will give away $3,500 in prizes, include gift certificates, free classes, and tons of products. One lucky win-ner in line by 10am will win a $150 Gift Certifi-cate! The first 20 adults in line receive Tote Bags full of Free Products. There will be free refreshments including Lori's popular Guinness Stout Chocolate Cupcakes, and store wide sales all day long. More information can be found on their website at www.loriskitchenstore.com.

izaak Walton steakDinnerA steak dinner will be held at 6 pm. on the second Tuesday of each month at the Izaak Walton League, 1125 Spring Bay Road, East Peoria. The dinner will include steak, salad, and french fries for $20 per person. Two beers, soda, and bottled water will be available for extra cost. The dinner will be open to the public. Raffle tickets for a 2001

Chevy Silverado can be purchased for $50 each with only 100 tickets being sold. There will be a draw-ing on Sept. 8 at the Fall Festival. For more information, call Dick at 309-678-8692.

sept. 8izaak Walton Family Fall FestivalThe Izaak Walton Fam-ily Fall Festival will take place from noon to 5 p.m. Sept. 8, at 1125 Spring Bay Road, East Peoria. A half-chicken dinner for adults will be $10. Kids 12 and under will cost $4 for a 1/4 chicken dinner. There will be games, raffles, silent auctions and more. The public welcome.

sept. 11Criss Angel at the Peoria Civic Center

Magician of the Century Criss Angel will perform his newest production, Criss Angel RAW - The Mindfreak Unplugged, at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 11, in the Peoria Civic Center Theater.

Criss Angel is the most influential and imitated magician of the modern era. From his role as star, creator, executive producer and director of the most successful magic televi-sion series of all time, Criss Angel Mindfreak on A&E Network, to his #1 best-selling Las Vegas stage show Criss Angel Mind-freak, to countless criti-cally acclaimed television specials and series, best-selling books, top-grossing retail products, music CDs and more. Hailing spectacular reviews from outlets such as Bloomberg Businessweek - who called him “the biggest name in Las Vegas magic”, and the Las Vegas Sun - “The #1 magic show of all time.”, Angel’s magic revolu-tion has single-handedly brought upon the art’s resurgence.

Tickets for the Peoria show are on sale now. Tickets ranging from $45.50 to $99.50, includ-ing a $175 VIP Experience, can be purchased on www.ticketmaster.com or in-person at the Toyota Box Office, located inside the Peoria Civic Center.

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By Phil LucianoGateHouse Media Illinois

From organizing unions to effecting labor laws, Illinois has played a vital historical role as a flashpoint - sometimes

involving violence and danger - for workplace fair-ness. These are some of the key figures and events of that struggle.

Mother JonesShe lost her own family, so

she adopted a new one, a huge one, lifting up the cause of labor.

In the process, Mother Jones became perhaps the greatest labor force in the history of Illinois.

An Irish immigrant and dressmaker, Mary Harris land-ed in Memphis, Tennessee, where she met and wed George Jones, a foundry worker and union supporter. They’d had four children by 1867, when an epidemic of yellow fever claimed the entire household, save Mary. The 30-year-old widow relocated to Chicago to start anew with a dress shop, but it was lost in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

She scraped to get by, some-times sewing piecework for wealthy Chicago families. As she’d gaze out their picture windows, she gained a keen eye and soft heart for disen-franchised.

Jones gravitated to organiz-ing with the Knights of Labor, then the United Mine Work-ers. Her labor-rights moxie quickly won over workers. She’d travel to help wherever the call - garment workers in Chicago, steelworkers in Pittsburgh, bottle washers in Milwaukee - railing against companies and corporations for fair wages and safe working conditions.

At the close of the 19th cen-tury, Illinois became a labor battleground, especially for

downstate miners, drawing her attention. After she died in 1930, she was buried among the miners laid to rest at Union Miners Cemetery in Mount Olive. Her simple marker car-ries some uncharacteristically purple prose, in part extolling: “She gave her life to the world of labor, her blessed soul to heaven.”

It’s almost a shame she isn’t remembered there from one of her most telling quotes: “I’m not a humanitarian. I’m a hell raiser.”

The Haymarket AffairWith the explosion of a stick

of dynamite, the Haymarket Affair became a key flashpoint of the U.S. labor movement.

By May 1886, Chicago had become a labor battleground, with pro-labor forces fighting for better working conditions and pay. The tug-of-war also included radical anarchists who wanted to overthrow cap-italism, sparking fear among much of the public.

To advance the idea of an eight-hour workday, a labor rally was set for May 4 - a day after police fired upon on an angry mob of striking Chi-cago workers, killing two. The rally seemed peaceful, ending as a throng of police stepped through to disperse attendees. Then a stick of dynamite was hurled at the police, killing seven cops and one civilian. In return, officers started fir-ing into the crowd, wounding dozens.

Eight men were arrested and convicted in connection with the bombing, though the thrower was never found. Still, four were hanged; at the gal-lows, one said, “The time will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today.”

His words proved prescient. Though a wave of xenophobia had swept the nation immedi-ately after the bombing, public

skepticism gradually grew over what increasingly seemed like a sham prosecution. Of the other four defendants, one committed suicide while the other three were sent to pris-on; however, they were later pardoned.

The martyrdom of the de-fendants fueled pro-labor forces, eventually leading to the eight-hour workday, along with the creation of Interna-tional Workers’ Day on May 1.

The Pullman StrikeThe Pullman Strike was the

first national strike in Ameri-can, riveting the country to the burgeoning labor movement.

South of Chicago, the Pull-man Co. not only built and leased passenger train cars but set up a company town of Pull-man, allegedly as a model com-munity. But during a recession in 1893, the company laid off workers and cut wages, yet did not reduce rents.

Led by the American Rail-way Union, 4,000 Pullman workers went on strike May 22, 1894. Gradually, the strike grew nationally: by June 30, 125,000 workers on 29 rail-roads had walked off the job rather than handle Pullman cars. The strike shut down much of the nation’s freight and passenger traffic west of Detroit.

In early July, the federal gov-ernment (leaning on antitrust and commerce laws) obtained a court injunction ordering ARU leaders from inciting workers to refuse to work. President Grover Cleveland sent federal troops into Chi-cago. With the city swarmed with more than 14,000 troops and policemen, 6,000 rioters destroyed hundreds of railcars on July 6. The next day, federal troops responded to an assault by firing into a mob, killing as many as 30 people.

Public opinion, originally in

favor of workers, switched to opposition as rail service lan-guished. Federal troops were recalled on July 20, effectively ending the strikes. The com-pany agreed to rehire strikers, as long as they sign a pledge to never join a union. But their rents were not reduced.

As a conciliatory gesture to the labor movement, President Cleveland and Congress cre-ated Labor Day.

The Herrin MassacreIn 1922, a nation recoiled in

horror at gruesome strike vio-lence in downstate Illinois.

That month, the United Mine Workers continued a nationwide strike. However, at the Southern Illinois Coal Co.’s strip mine near Herrin, workers kept working to pull coal from the earth but not ship it out.

In mid-June, however, the owner decided to violate the agreement and ship coal. When the union workers re-fused, he fired them and called in replacements from Chicago - 50 men unaware that they had been hired as strikebreak-ers in an area where 90 per-cent of the workforce carried a union card.

On June 21, shots rang out at the mine, though accounts differ as to who pulled the trig-ger first. Regardless, soon one strikebreaker and two strikers were dead, with a third seri-ously wounded. Union men from the entire region thun-dered to the mine, en route grabbing guns and ammuni-tion from shops.

Realizing their outnum-bered predicament, the strike-breakers agreed to stop work in exchange for safe passage

out. On the morning of June 22, they came out of the mine, and union workers marched them toward town, along the way killing the mine’s one-legged superintendent.

After several miles of walk-ing, the group reached a barb-wire fence. Strikers lined up the scabs against the fence and told them to run for their lives. As they clawed to climb the fence, strikers opened fire, kill-ing and wounding many.

The final death toll was 23. In the aftermath, prosecutors obtained 214 indictments. But when the first few resulted in acquittals by sympathetic local juries, the rest were dropped.

The nation reacted to the massacre with disgust. Presi-dent Warren Harding charac-terized it as a “shocking crime, barbarity, butchery, rot and madness.”

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Sept. 12Comedian Chris D’Elia Coming to Peoria Civic Center

Comedian and actor Chris D’Elia will play the Peoria Civic Center The-ater at 8 p.m. on Thurs-day, Sept. 12.

Chris D’Elia has be-come one of the most in-demand performers in comedy. As a stand-up, D’Elia is currently tour-ing the United States and Canada with his show, Follow the Leader. D’Elia has three comedy specials available on Net-flix, Man on Fire (2017), Incorrigible (2015) and he was chosen as one of four comics to represent the US in Netflix’s 2019 series, Comedians Of The World which features 47 comedians from 13 regions in eight differ-ent languages. His first special, White Male. Black Comic, debuted on Comedy Central in 2013 and he can also be seen on Comedy Central’s Roast of Justin Bieber (2015). D'Elia also hosts the highly successful podcast Congratulations With Chris D’elia which

has been a mainstay on iTunes’ comedy podcast charts since its debut in February 2017.

On screen, D’Elia is most known for his star-ring role in the NBC’s comedy series Undate-able. D’Elia can be seen in the upcoming season 2 of YOU on Netflix. He can also be seen in the Netflix feature Little Evil opposite Adam Scott and Evangeline Lilly. He has also appeared on ABC’s The Good Doctor, Free-form’s Alone Together, Comedy Central’s Worka-holics and TBS’s Glory Daze. He also has nu-merous appearances on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and Comedy Cen-tral Presents and Conan. D’Elia currently lives in Los Angeles.

Tickets for the Peoria show go on sale Friday, June 14 at 10AM. Tickets are $25 / $35 / $75 plus applicable fees, and can be purchased on www.ticketmaster.com or in-person at the Toyota Box Office, located inside the Peoria Civic Center.

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Valley Park Butterfly fieldSaturday, September

14 from 8:00 to Noon at

Meadow Valley Park But-terfly Field, Legion Road side. Wear work clothes, stout shoes or boots and work gloves. If you have loppers or branch trim-mers, saws or rakes, please bring.

The group will be con-tinuing to remove inva-sive bushes and shrubs towards the west side of the field.

Additional informa-tion, contact Nick Ripley nripley8@yahoo.com or 309-340-0221.

Morton Metalcraft Re-union

A Morton Metalcraft Reunion will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 14, at Freedom Hall, 349 W. Birchwood St., in Morton. All former employees, retirees and families are invited. Bring a dish to share and your lawn chairs. Table service and beverages will be provided. There is a full kitchen to keep food hot or cold.

Sept. 28Chillicothe Weekend Snackpac

Weekend Snackpac 5K/Kids Fun Run/1 Mile Walk & Pancake Break-fast Sept. 28, 2019, at South Elementary School:

Paper registration is avail-able at FUMC. Online registration is available at chillicothefumc.org. Pancake breakfast only tickets will be available at the door.

Oct. 5Comedian Kevin James Coming to Peoria Civic Center

Comedian and actor Kevin James will play the Peoria Civic Center The-ater at at 7 p.m. on Satur-day, Oct. 5.

Kevin James began his career as a stand-up on the Long Island comedy scene. After being dis-covered at the 1996 Mon-treal Comedy Festival, he signed a network devel-opment deal to create his own sitcom, The King of Queens.

James was the pro-ducer, co-writer, and star of the hit comedies "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" 1 and 2, "Zookeeper" and "Here Comes the Boom." James made his feature film debut in 2005 in Colum-bia Pictures’ "Hitch" star-ring opposite Will Smith, and starred alongside Adam Sandler in "Pixels," "Grown Ups," "Grown Ups 2" and "I Now Pro-nounce You Chuck and Larry." He starred in the

feature "True Memoirs of an International Assas-sin" for Netflix in 2016. In addition to his on-camera work, James’s voice has been featured in the ani-mated films "Barnyard" for Nick Movies, as well as "Monster House" and the "Hotel Transylvania" franchise for Sony Pic-tures Animation.

Tickets for the Peoria show went on sale Friday, June 14. Tickets ranging from $39.50 to $75 can be purchased on www.ticketmaster.com or in-person at the Toyota Box Office, located inside the Peoria Civic Center.

Oct. 8Metal Band In This Mo-ment Coming to the Peo-ria Civic Center

The American metal band In This Moment will play the Peoria Civic Center Theater at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 8.

The group spent two years supporting their biggest album yet 2014’s Black Widow. Upon re-lease, it seized their high-est position to date on the Billboard Top 200, bow-ing at #8. Simultaneously, it clinched #3 on the Hard Rock Albums chart and spawned a series of hits such as “Sick Like

Me,” “Big Bad Wolf,” and “Sex Metal Barbie”—all cracking 8 million Spotify streams each and topping Rock Radio. Meanwhile, the band’s signature smash “Whore” crossed the 20-million mark.

Furthermore, the title track off In This Mo-ment's 2012 album, Blood, has been certi-fied gold by the RIAA. A remarkable accomplish-ment, the companion music video for "Blood" has been viewed over 27 million times.

Between headline tours, they incinerated stages everywhere from Rock On The Range to Down-load Festival. In March 2016, Maria and Chris commenced writing for what would become the new record with longtime collaborator and multiple Grammy Award-nom-inated producer Kevin Churko [Five Finger Death Punch, Ozzy Os-bourne] at his Las Vegas compound.

Tickets for the Peoria show went on sale Friday, June 21. Tickets ranging from $29.50 to $45.00, can be purchased on www.ticketmaster.com or in-person at the Toyota Box Office, located inside the Peoria Civic Center.

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TRAVEL

New York’s Ellicottville area is open for adventure anytime

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It has been almost 18years since 9/11, when ter-rorists hijacked commer-cial airliners in a plannedattack on the United States.Today, a visit to the Flight93NationalMemorial inPennsylvania gives thosewho lived the event and theyounger generations whodid not a look into whatoccurred on that tragic day.In a town of fewer than

240 residents, thousandsvisit each year to honor theheroes of Flight 93, whobanded together to stormthe cockpit and the terror-ists whomanned the plane.Thememorial, now a

part of the National ParkService, is in the country-side of Shanksville. TheNPS states it strives to“preserve, protect and tell

the stories of Flight 93.”To begin a visit, the

first stop should be thevisitor center complex,which opened Sept. 10,2015. It will take about45minutes to explore theexhibits and understandthe happenings of 9/11.At the complex, visitors

can take the flight pathwalkway. Themuseumhas items recovered fromthe crash site‚ in one areatelephones are availablefor visitors to listen to theconversations betweenthose on the plane andtheir familymembers justbefore the plane crashed.The timeline of the flight

is followed on thewalkwayto the visitor’s center fromthe parking lot. A rangeror volunteer is on handto explain the differentaspects of thememorialand their significance.

The crash site is markedby a large boulder in thefield, and visitors can-not walk to it. However,it is easily seen fromthememorial area.AtMemorial Plaza, pas-

sengers and crewmembersof the flight are honored.Whitemarble panels line

the flight pathwith namesof those who bravely foughtto keep the plane fromcompleting its mission tostrike inWashington, D.C.At 10:03 a.m. amomentof silence is often held,the exact time the planecrashed in a farmer’s field.The Tower of Voices

is heard throughout thesite. It is a 93-foot steeland concrete tower thatholds 40wind chimes,each one dedicated to the40 heroes who attemptedto take back the plane.The entirememorial sits

on 2,200 acres. The aver-age number of visitors peryear is well over 300,000.There is no entrance

fee to visit the Flight 93memorial. It is open fromsunrise to sunset and thevisitors center is open from9 a.m. to 5 p.m. except onNewYear’s Day, Thanks-giving and Christmas.An 18th anniversary

observancewill be heldSept. 11, at 9:45 a.m.,and thememorial willopen at 7 a.m. that day.Formore information,weather updates, acces-sibility andmore visit nps.gov/flni/index.htm.

A fittingmemorial to Flight 93 heroes

The names of the passengers and crew of Flight 93 are on whitemable panels in the Memorial Plaza. [CR RAE]

Year-round fun

Autumn

During the fall, the arealights upwith colors. Literally,mountains of trees cover theAlleganys, offering a showcaseof vivid autumn hues. Tak-ing a drive through AlleganyState Park or the back roads ofAmish Country will give trav-elers a perfect fall day. Thearea is known for its AmishTrail; maps and informationare at amishtrail.com/map.

There is nothing like a down-home breakfast or lunch atSprague’sMaple Farms inPortville. The farm offers aninteresting look intomak-ing syrup, specialty pancakes,sausage andmuchmore. A visitto Pumpkinville in Great Valley,hosting acres of pumpkins, acornmaze, pony rides, hayridesand farm animals, is amustduring the autumnmonths.Open from Sept. 14 throughOct. 31; pumpkinville.com.

Winter

Wintertime in the Ellicot-tville areameans the ski resortsHolimont andHoliday Valleyare open, and the snowmobil-ing is in full swing. Not onlydoes Allegany State Park offerwinter activities but the area,known as the EnchantedMoun-tains, is home to one of thelongest continual skimobiletrail systems. Visit enchant-edmountains.com for updatedsnowmobiling conditions anda downloadable trail map.Add some evening entertain-

ment with a visit to Seneca

Allegany Resort and Casinoin Salamanca. The resort sitsdeep in the AlleganyMoun-tains and offers visitors upscalehotel amenities with panoramicviews,more than 2,000 slotmachines and 33 table games.Restaurants range from a buf-fet to fine dining and a 24-hourcafé. A spa and indoor pool areon site, and sports fans canwatch their favorite team onone of the screens at the RiverBar or listen to livemusic. Theresort is just 15minutes fromthe center of Ellicottville.Formore information on the

area go to ellicottvilleny.com.

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E llicottville, NewYork,a village of just over1,600 residents, offersvacationers a variety

of things to do year-round.

Spring and summer

Holiday Valley Ski Resortoffersmuchmore than a snowydownhill winter experience.In the spring, summer and fallthe resort is a golfer’s paradise.Each hole of the par 72 courseoffers a fun and skill-testingblend of play.Well-groomedgreens, plush fairways andchallenging approaches arepart of each hole. The resortoffers lessons and a pro shop. Afull-service restaurant, bar andsnack shop are also available.Not into golf? Challenge

yourself at SkyHigh AdventurePark—with a climbing forest,mountain coaster and gemmin-ing. Travel a series of platformshigh in the trees connected byzip lines. The park offers 13courses with a variety of levelsof difficulties. The adven-ture park is the third-largestin the U.S. and includes 142

platforms, 170 elements and 43ziplines.Mountain biking is alsoa fun thing to do here beforethe hills are covered in snow.The Sky Flyer— a roller

coaster, of sorts, built on amountain— offers a thrillfor all ages, as riders sittingin a car are pulled up the hillthen are in control of theirspeed as they descend, zig-zagging down themountain.During the spring and sum-

mer the 65,000-acre AlleganyState Park is open for adven-ture, whether it is hiking,camping, swimming, bik-ing, fishing or just relaxing.Allegany is the third-largeststate park in the country.Afterwardwalk Ellicottville’s

main streets, which are filledwith shops and restaurants.Find a special lunch, dinner ora unique beer and just the rightgift for someone, or somethingunique and fun for your home.

Get the full fall experience at Pumpkinville in Great Valley. [CR RAE]

A climbing forestis one of manywarm-weatherattractions at SkyHigh AdventurePark. [HOLIDAYVALLEY RESORT]

Snowmobiling in Allegany State Park. [CATTARAUGUS COUNTY TOURISM]

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