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Farmington Fire: One year later, still few answers

Billtownhighlightssuccesses

By BILL KNIGHTFor The Weekly Post

WILLIAMSFIELD – Recentstudent activities were reportedto the Board of Education at itsMonday meeting, mostly by stu-dents themselves, and legislativeactivities were shared by Super-intendent Tim Farquer that couldaffect the District’s bottom line.

Still dressed in their baseballuniforms, Tyler Jones and EastonBeard shared highlights of theirexperiences in the school’s pro-fessional mentor matching pro-gram. Jones, who said he’sconsidering a career in kinesiol-ogy, met with staff and job-shad-owed at Peoria’s RiverPlexRecreation and Wellness Centerand also at Bradley University’sathletic training facilities.

Beard, who said he may pursueveterinary medicine, job-shad-owed Dr. Suzanne Harshbargerat Brown Animal Hospital inElmwood and also met with Uni-versity of Illinois veterinary stu-dents and staff at Wildlife PrairiePark. Throughout, Beard was of-fered hands-on training with ani-

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Ex-Elmwoodresident pensromance novel

By CHERYL HARLOWFor The Weekly Post

ELMWOOD – Between her du-ties as a Supply Corps Officer inthe U.S. Navy, former Elmwoodresident, Tori Scotti found time toself-publish a romance novel.

Scotti, a 2009 Elmwood HighSchool graduate and a 2013Bradley University graduate,joined the Navyin 2013 and iscurrently sta-tioned in Norfolk,Va., as an Ensignaboard the U.S.S.Monterey.

Scotti beganwriting her novel,“Where theMaple Leaf Falls,” as a student atBradley but left it unfinished whenshe graduated. She started writingagain while in the Navy and pub-lished the novel as T.M. Sweetbriaron Feb. 19, 2015.

The 118-page novel appears tobe a quick, light read upon firstglance. But readers soon learn thenovel also has more seriousthemes. What starts out as “small-town girl meets handsome new-comer guy” soon turns into de-

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FARMINGTON – In the earlymorning hours of May 14, 2014,Emmanuel “Manny” Cervanteswas alone when he died. But,family members and law en-forcement officials say, hecouldn’t have been alone forlong.

“How could he have gottenthere? He didn’t have his bike,he didn’t have a phone,” saidCynthia Vinasco, Cervantes’solder sister. “We have no clo-sure. We have no answers.”

Cervantes, 35, of West

Lafayette, Ind., succumbed tothe smoke created by a fire thatdestroyed a large portion of theOld School Center in Farming-ton.

There were no alcohol ordrugs found in his system, saidFulton County Coroner SteveHines, and no signs of foul play

were discovered during the au-topsy.

Firefighters from 28 area de-partments spent 11 hours bat-tling the blaze.

Two weeks later, on May 29,2014, Cervantes’s body wasfound on the third floor of thebuilding by a contractor clean-ing up the scene, according to apreliminary report from the Illi-nois State Fire Marshal’s Officeobtained by The Weekly Post.

Building owner Dan Meistercalled authorities around 4 p.m.that day to report a “foul odor”emanating from the property.

Cervantes went unidentifieduntil June 16, 2014, when Hinesrevealed that the man’s whiteblood cells had been “super-heated” by the fire, causing anyDNA which could be used todegrade. He was identifiedusing dental records from 2011,ending weeks of agony afterCervantes’s family last had con-tact with him May 12, 2014.

At the time of his death, Cer-vantes was working for JayGoldberg Events at Three Sis-ters Park in Chillicothe, assist-ing with setup for the Summer

By BILL KNIGHTFor The Weekly Post

BRIMFIELD – WhenClaris Tenbrook was a kidvisiting an aunt and unclewho farmed in the Cham-paign area, he was so takenby a windmill there, it be-came one of two things hedecided he wanted at hisown home one day.

“I’d go there in the sum-mer and I was just fasci-nated by their windmill,”says Tenbrook, 82. “Eventu-ally I really wanted one –and an old-fashioned gaspump.”

He’s got both now on hisrural home a few milesnorthwest of Wildlife PrairiePark, where he and his wifeSheila volunteer. And thisweek the 1932 Aermotorwindmill on his land willhave a neighbor at the parktwo miles south of Edwards.Wildlife planned to erect a

1933 Aermotor windmill onWednesday (May 13), onethat Tenbrook spearheadedin restoring.

Set for Wildlife’s CEFCUChildren’s Heritage Area,the old-fashioned windmillwill pump water out of aminiature well and demon-

strate how settlers used towork using wind power.

It’s been a months-longeffort, Tenbrook says.

“We’re members atWildlife and volunteer there,and every time I’d see thiswindmill in terrible disre-

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Windmillback atWildlife

Prairie Park

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Claris Tenbrook of rural Brimfield spearheaded themonths-long effort to restore Wildlife Prairie Park’s oldAeromotor windmill, which was erected on a new basethis week. Photo by Bill Knight.

Scotti

Emmanuel Cervantes

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scriptive scenes of military combat andexploration of the psychologicalwounds veterans carry with them.

“I based my characters off of people Iknow who have been through combatin the Iraq War, including a formerboyfriend, Richie,” Scotti said. “Iwanted to shed some light on the diffi-cult transition many of these youngmen and women have upon their returnhome after combat and the physicaland emotional scars they have to dealwith every day.

“It changes who you areforever, in ways that cannotbe named.”

Scotti graduated with amarketing degree fromBradley University but al-ways had a love of writing.She credits Elmwood teach-ers Dawna Crawford, ChrisHerridge and Bradley Profes-sor Laurie Vickroy with teaching herhow to dissect a book, get into a char-acter’s mind, and for making creativewriting interesting.

“I never have thought of trying tomake a living as a writer,” Scotti said.“It was on my bucket list of things Iwanted to accomplish and I reallyenjoy it.”

Scotti plans to write a second bookthat is a continuation of the first book,but which will focus more on the malecharacter Jake’s perspective.

She admitted to drawing upon herexperiences growing up in Elmwoodand her friends and family for inspira-

tion. “No character in ‘Where the Maple

Leaf Falls’ is based on a real life per-son, it is just a compilation of manypeople,” Scotti said.

The main character in her book,Nella, is stuck in her small hometownbecause she is afraid to take chancesand try new things. But Scotti said thatshe never felt stuck in Elmwood andadded that she hopes to move backsomeday to raise a family.

For now, Scotti is on a new path ofserving in a U.S. Navy that isonly 10 percent female. Herjob is a Supply Corps Officer,which she said is similar tobeing a banker on a ship.

“The majority of guys I’vedealt with in the Navy havenever made any sexist re-marks and I have learned towork hard and prove myselfworthy of their respect,”

Scotti said. “I don’t try to fool anyoneinto thinking I am risking my lifeeveryday like some of my fellow Navymen and women do, but I serve mycountry in a different way by beingcareful with the taxpayers’ dollars andhelping my ship to run smoothly.”

Scotti said any recognition as heroesshould go to those who put their life onthe line every day in Iraq andAfghanistan. And she hopes her bookcan help shed some light on what theseservice men and women go through.

“Where the Maple Leaf Falls” byT.M. Sweetbriar is available on Ama-zon and Kindle.

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This Week’s Eventss Family Bingo – Family bingo is

today (May 14) at 6 p.m. at Morrisonand Mary Wiley Library. Call (309) 742-2431 to register.

s Free Bread – Free Bread is avail-able Friday (May 15) at ElmwoodMethodist Church at 10 a.m.

s Troutman 5K – Troutman Park 5Krun/walk fundraiser Saturday (May 16)at Troutman Park in Princeville. Regis-tration at 7 a.m., race time at 8 a.m. Bagstournament, music, live auction and craftfair afterwards.

s Pancake Breakfast – Pancake andsausage breakfast prepared byPrinceville Lions Club is Saturday (May16) from 6:30-10 a.m.at Troutman Park inPrinceville. $6 foradults, $4 for kidsunder 5.

s Book Club – Brim-field Book Club meet-ing at Brimfield PublicLibrary is Monday (May 18) from 1-2p.m. in the library study room. Newmembers welcome.

s Summer Reading – Sign up forSummer Reading at Morrison and MaryWiley Library begins Monday (May 18).Stop by any time the library is open toget your reading log.

s Comfort Quilters – Comfort Quiltersmeeting is Tuesday (May 19) from 10a.m.- 3 p.m. at Dahinda MethodistChurch. Quilts will be made to donate tobabies, children, and nursing homes.

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Future Eventss Craft Night – Ladies Craft Night is

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s Craft Event – Make it/take it birdhouse craft will be made May 23 from 9a.m. -1 p.m. at Morrison and MaryWiley Library. Children may stop by any

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fast – Breakfast servedon May 25 at ElmwoodLorado Taft Museum at8 a.m. Followed by Pa-rade. s Story Time – Luau

Story Time held May 28 at 6 p.m. atMorrison and Mary Wiley Library. Chil-dren 4-8 are encouraged to come for astory and game. Call (309) 742-2431.

s Farmers Market –A Farmers Marketwill be held in Elmwood during themonths of June-September on Fridaysfrom 4:30-6 p.m. at Central Park.

s Bus Trip – Peoria Evening GardenClub annual bus trip is June 13 to Wis-consin and Illinois’ Redbud Creek Farm.Cost $67. Call (309) 657-4229 or [email protected].

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s HS Graduation – High School graduation forElmwood is Sunday (May 17) at 1 p.m. Brimfieldgraduation is Sunday (May 17) at 3 p.m. andWilliamsfield is Sunday (May 17 ) at 2 p.m. Farm-ington graduation is May 24 at 2 p.m. and Princevilleis May 24 at 3 p.m.

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As state government scurries tofill a projected $8 billion deficit inthe 2016 fiscal year budget, itwould seem to make sense tomove beyond successful compro-mises and proven solutions al-ready in placeand insteadfocus on issuesthat truly have asignificant im-pact on thestate’s finances.

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But that’s not the case withsome elected officials and localgovernment lobbyists that repre-sent the more than 7,000 taxpayerfunded units of government in Illi-nois. Behind-the-scenes efforts are

taking place that would reducetheir obligation of accountabilityand transparency to taxpayers, allunder the guise of the state’s fi-nancial crisis. It’s a “smoke-and-mirrors” attempt by localgovernments at a time of fiscalcrisis where Illinois taxpayerswould end up on the losing end.

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The political cartoon above thiscolumn made me chuckle. I’m nota big believer in kids weaseling outof tests. But the education systemdoes seem to begetting out ofcontrol withmore and moremandated, stan-dardized tests.For what seemslike weeks, myolder boys havebeen cominghome telling methey have no homework due to“PARCC testing.” I have no ideawhy these required tests eliminatethe need for homework or class-room study. Because it sure seemscounter-productive to test kids onwhat they know, when in fact theyreally don’t know very much andhave plenty to learn. Why not letteachers teach instead?

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There is a new Asparagus King,and his name is Ted Gilles. Gilles,the Princeville dynamo, has single-handedly picked enough wild as-paragus to satisfy the needs of halfof Elmwood. Yes, Gilles was kindenough to pick, package and donateasparagus to The Weekly Post. Forthat we say, “Thanks!” But we’renot so happy as to get sappy. Wealso hired a private detective to plotGPS coordinates of Ted’s everymove to be ready for next spring. ...Not that there’s some secret to this.Just get in your truck (it helps to situp higher), drive country roadsaround Princeville, scan the ditchesand you too can become a foraginglegend. ... One tip from Gilles is toburn areas for better asparagusgrowth. ... Unfortunately, mush-rooms have not been as bountiful.While a few ’shroomers enjoyedbig hauls of grey morels, yellowshave not been as numerous.

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locally produced television showcalled “Lake Life,” which airs onDIY Network and features the Her-man family, including Nate Hermanof Edwards. Much of the show hasbeen or will be filmed at The GiantGoose Ranch near Cuba, a fishingdestination property the Hermansare developing. Worth noting is thatthe Goose Ranch has an openhouse Saturday, May 23. The pub-lic is welcome to come see theproperty and youngsters will be in-vited to fish a new 2-acre kids fish-ing pond for trout, catfish, perch,bass, bluegill and crappie. ... Part-ing shot: One classic ploy in poli-tics is to promise the world andhope nobody keeps track after-wards. So it goes for Jubilee Col-lege State Park, where talk ofhiring staff has not yet materializedeven as use of the popular park isincreasing. But staff has beenadded to the less-used Rock IslandTrail. Explain that one, can you?

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I’ll admit it: I hit the kid. Neversaw him coming. Hopefully, the ex-perience taught him something.

I was at anearby Walmart. Idon’t like to shopthere, because Ihate puttingmoney in thepockets of theWalton family asthey try to figureout ways to makemore while payingtheir employees minimum wage. Ialso don’t like the fact that Walmarthas put so many mom and popshops out of business, especially insmaller towns because they can sellfor less after buying in quantity.

I also don’t like the fact that it’shard to find an associate when youneed help.

But there are times when theyhave something that I can’t get any-where else, and I’m forced to eitherbuy it from them or go without.

One day, I was there making a

purchase that would add less than$5 to the Walton family’s coffers.When I go there, I’m usually rele-gated to the far end of the parkinglot due to the fact that I’m stubbornand refuse to get a handicap placardfor my car.

I do, however, take advantage oftheir little go-carts which allow meto wheel throughout the store at amind-numbing 2 miles per hour.

The carts are actually pretty neat.Most stores have them now. You sitin them and have a set of handlebarsin front of you with a forwardswitch and a backward switch(warning: If you go backward, aLOUD BOOP-BOOP-BOOP willsound, causing everyone withinthree aisles of you to turn and look).

There is a basket on the front ofthe cart for purchases and it alsodoes a nice job of holding myportable oxygen tank.

I’m riding along as fast as the cartwill go, when all of a sudden asmall child appears directly in frontof me. The aisle was clear one sec-

ond and the next second, there hewas. I slammed into him at fullspeed and knocked him rolling. I let off on the “throttle” andstopped immediately, only to beslammed into by anotherMunchkin-sized human, this onecrashing into the cart and me. Henearly knocked me out of the seat.

The first little boy was about 6and he bounced back up, a littlestartled, but none the worse thewear. The second little boy wasabout 10, a stout youngster who ap-peared to have a football careerwaiting for him later in life. He’sthe one who seemed mad.

It was several seconds before themom and dad showed up. It seemsthat the brothers had been playingtag in the store and other shopperssaid they’d been terrorizing thepaint and automotive departmentsfor a half hour.

They had run into people,knocked down displays, scared peo-ple by jumping out at them, and

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GUEST VOICES


Watching ‘Kids Gone Wild’ at Walmart

JonGALLAGHER

To the Editor:I am writing regarding a recent

comment by Gov. Bruce Rauner.“People who come out to hunt

and fish spend money in localrestaurants, in localmotels, spend moneyto buy licenses andpay fees,” Raunersaid. “We could helpour economy if weprotect our natural re-sources and encour-age camping and hiking andboating and hunting and fishing.That could really be an economicboost as well as protect our natu-ral environment for health rea-sons.”

I would like to enlighten theGovernor and the Illinois Depart-ment of Natural Resources thatthey already have the economicboost in Illinois. We are calledEquestrians.

The horse industry in Illinoisand the nation is a little-recog-nized giant. The business gener-ated by horses totals billions of

dollars. It is so diverse, tangiblefigures represent a mere fractionof its true impact and worth.

The value of the horse industryis nearly as great as major indus-

tries such as petro-leum and coalproducts manufactur-ing and apparel andtextile manufacturing,and exceeds the valueof such industries asmotion pictures and

railroad transportation.In fact, the Illinois horse indus-

try is the third largest industry inthe state, according to statisticscompiled by Kevin H. Kline forThe Horsemen’s Council of Illi-nois.

Consider these annual horse-re-lated expenditures:

• $91.5 million directly spent ontrail riding;

• $101 million spent to care forhorses;

• $2.66 billion of revenue in theIllinois Gross Domestic Product(GDP) produced by trail riding.

How loudly do our dollarsspeak?

• Per Town = $148,494• Per County = $1,891,115.• The Illinois GDP of $528 bil-

lion is fifth in the nation and theIllinois Equine GDP of $3.8 bil-lion is almost 1 percent of the en-tire Illinois GDP.

Plus, the Illinois horse industrypays $1.9 billion in taxes to alllevels of government nationally.

Shouldn’t this make the statemore horse friendly?

It doesn’t. Equestrians seem tobe treated like second-class citi-zens.

All we want to do is ride ourhorses. State Parks are very im-portant to us; we ride there.

Unfortunately, many are movingto surrounding horse friendlystates that allow these equestriansto ride without all the hassle. Andtheir money goes with them!Those states realize the value ofhaving equestrians.

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The family of Charlotte Shaheenis thankful for all the expressions ofsympathy we have received at thissad time in our lives.

The cards, calls, prayers, visitsand meals were welcomed and muchappreciated.

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Maquon man killed inhead-on crash

YATES CITY – One man waskilled and a second injured criti-cally in an 11 a.m. crash on May 6on Illinois Route 78 about a milesoutheast of here, according to theIllinois State Police.

Seventy-four-year-old JamesDonsbach of Maquon was pro-nounced dead at the scene, and 88-year-old Harold Bleichner of YatesCity, was airlifted to OSF St. Fran-cis Medical Center, where he wasreported to be in critical but stablecondition.

Bleichner was driving a 2001Chevrolet car northbound on 78,when for unknown reasons his ve-hicle crossed the center line aboutone-half mile south of Knox Road8 and struck a 2002 Chevrolet truckdriven southbound by Donsbach,according to Trooper Jason Wilson.

Knox County Sheriff’s Depart-ment, Peoria County Sheriff’s De-partment, and Illinois State Police(ISP) all responded. An ISP trafficcrash reconstruction technician alsowas sent to the scene, said Wilson,who noted that no charges havebeen filed in the accident but thecase remains under investigation.Brimfield man convictedof DUI in 2013 accident

BRIMFIELD – Stephen Corlett,46, of Brimfield last Wednesday(May 6) was convicted by PeoriaCircuit Court Judge David Brownof aggravated Driving Under theInfluence in connection with a Sep-tember 2013 crash that killed 60-year-old Joseph Spears of HannaCity.

Brown found that Corlett wasguilty of illegally having the drugAlprezolam in his blood and urinewithout having a prescription. Al-prezolam is sold under variousnames, including Xanax.

The judge found Corlett notguilty of a second count of aggra-vated DUI, which alleged impair-ment.

About 12:20 p.m. on Sept. 28,2013, Corlett was westbound onU.S. Route 150 when his 1996Buick struck Spears’ 2007 Harley-Davidson motorcycle, which wasstopped behind a 2006 Dodge van

driven by Michelle Grutter, 35, ofEdwards preparing to turn south onNorth Gilles Road. Spears wasthrown from the motorcycle, whichstruck the van.

Corlett was transported toMethodist Medical Center, whereurine and blood samples weretaken. Spears, a former Peoria po-lice officer, was taken to OSF St.Francis Medical Center, where hedied 10 days later.

The drugs Methadone and Di-azepam also were detected in Cor-lett’s body, but he had prescriptionsfor them. His lawyer, Luke Taylor,argued Corlett didn’t have Alprezo-lam in his system and said themethod to test for Alprezolam wasexperimental and unreliable.

Corlett faces a penalty rangingfrom probation to a prison sentenceof 3-14 years. Sentencing is sched-uled for Thursday, June 18.

Corlett’s bond was revoked andhe was transported to the PeoriaCounty Jail.Dispute between farmerand township continued

KICKAPOO – Attorneys for Ed-wards farmer Roger Windish andKickapoo Township on Friday(May 8) agreed to a continuance ofthe Township’s lawsuit allegingthat Windish, 58, has been improp-erly farming on Township right ofway since 2010 and recently dam-aged the ditches along and surfaceof North Gilles Road.

According to court documents,Windish, represented by Peoria at-torney Blake Dunlap, “demands atrial by jury” and asked the Town-ship to “identify with stakes where[the Township] contends the rightof way extends to.”

Judge James Mack on May 1 is-sued an order prohibiting Windish“from entering, occupying, modify-ing or altering the right of way onGilles Road.”

A hearing to set a trial date isscheduled for Aug. 11.Peoria County crime statistics for April

The Peoria Sheriff’s Departmentreleased its monthly Crime Statis-tics Report for April for the sevenPeoria County townships in TheWeekly Post’s circulation area:

Brimfield city and township to-gether had 1 criminal damage to

property, 1 Driving Under the In-fluence charge and 1 traffic ticket.

Elmwood city and township to-gether had 1 DUI, 1 accident with-out an injury, and 1 fatal accident.

Jubilee had 1 assault, 1 accidentwithout an injury and 1 trafficticket.

Kickapoo had 1 domestic battery,3 thefts, 2 incidents of identitytheft, 2 incidents of vandalism/criminal damage to property, 1DUI, 1 accident with an injury, 4accidents without an injury and 4traffic tickets.

Millbrook had 3 traffic tickets.Radnor had 1 incident of vandal-

ism/ criminal damage to property, 4accidents without an injury and 6traffic tickets.

Rosefield had 2 burglaries of anon-residence and 1 theft.Three injured in mishapon Farmington Road

ELMWOOD – Kristina Tull, 32,of Elmwood and two passengerswere transported by AMT to OSFSt. Francis Medical Center after the1999 Ford Ranger Tull was drivingwestbound on Farmington Roadabout 5:30 p.m. May 10 struck a2013 Ford Focus driven by BrianneMorrison, 32, of Pekin.

No tickets were issued.Police reports

• Rebecca Perdue, 39, ofWilliamsfield on May 7 was ar-rested for domestic battery after anincident with a juvenile, and shewas transported to the KnoxCounty Jail.

• John Goldsworthy, 63, ofPrinceville on May 8 was arrestedfor a violation of an order of pro-tection and transported to the Peo-ria County Jail.

• Sean McDonough, 30, of Brim-field on May 9 was arrested forpossession of a controlled sub-stance and possession of cannabisand transported to Peoria CountyJail.

• Timothy Colgan, 51, ofPrinceville on May 10 was arrestedon two counts of theft, two countsof DUI, and obstructing an officer,and was transported to PeoriaCounty Jail.Deer accident

• May 9 – Rhea Breese ofWyoming on Princeville-JubileeRoad in Jubilee Township.

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generally made a nuisance of them-selves.

“I told you boys to stop running!”yelled the mom.

That did a lot of good.“You’re going to get hurt, I’m

telling you!” yelled the dad.That didn’t do anything either.The older child inched closer to

the other who was acting a littleshaken, not from injury, but fromgetting caught. This was shownwhen the older one tapped the otherone and yelled, “TAG!” and tookoff again, smashing into a regularshopping cart before rushing downanother aisle.

The younger boy took off on hisheels screaming, “No fair!”

The parents did nothing but sigh.I suggested either some rope or in-terlocking chain that was availablenearby, but I think my sarcasm mayhave been lost when a loud crashcame from a couple aisles away.

I’m not sure what caused thesekids to act this way. I have no ideawhy the parents didn’t have anybetter control over them than theyseemed to have.

I know my kids would never haveacted like that in a store. I alsoknow that if I would have acted likethat in public, I wouldn’t have sur-vived ’til my next birthday. In fact,

had that been me, I guarantee youmy britches would have been pulleddown, right there in the middle ofthe store, and I would have had ahard time sitting for some time.

A store associate finally came upto make sure things were okay withus. I made the suggestion that theyput an inflatable pillow on the frontof the carts and turn people like meloose, looking for little brats likethose two.

The parents traipsed off in searchof what destruction their boys werewielding next as the associate justshook her head “That might not bea bad idea,” she said. “Maybe youcould aim for the parents, too.”

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or change to another processrarely consider the chaos and dis-ruption to government bodies andto the court system that wouldtake place without this proper ver-ification, certification and archiv-ing of public notices and noticesof the courts.

PNI was created by state law in2011 and was approved unani-mously by both chambers of theIllinois General Assembly. Yes,unanimously. Key components ofthe law called for the creation of acentralized website for public no-tices that would be managed byIllinois newspapers.

It requires newspapers to uploadall notices to PNI after the noticesappear in print. All of this is doneat no additional cost to govern-ment. No taxpayer money goes to-wards supporting or managing thepublic notice website.

With each new session of theIllinois General Assembly, localgovernment lobbyists – whosepaychecks are funded largely byyour tax dollars – repeatedly pushbills to eliminate public notices or

remove them from newspapersand PNI in favor of their own in-dividual websites.

These bills rarely make it out ofcommittee because, frankly, statelawmakers understand that forcingcitizens to attempt to locate no-tices across 7,000 websitesdoesn’t make sense. (Actually, itwould be about 4,000 websites asmany units of local governmentdo not yet have a website.)

Such legislation was introducedand failed again earlier this session.However, local government groupsare now using behind-the-scenestactics to remove public noticesfrom print and from PNI and, in-stead, have the notices placed ontheir individual websites.

But, this time they have a newtwist: They are claiming that hav-ing to be accountable and trans-parent through the current publicnotice process is an “unfundedmandate” and they want to doaway with it.

The simple fact is this issue isnot about money, it’s about reduc-ing transparency and accountabil-ity to the taxpayers.

Every year Illinois citizens duti-fully fulfill their obligation ofpaying many types and amountsof taxes to support these thou-sands of local government unitsthroughout the state. Each of theseunits has an annual operatingbudget that ranges from tens ofthousands of dollars to hundredsof millions and even billions ofdollars. Taxpayer dollars, that is.

It’s not at all about “saving thetaxpayers money” because thathas already been done success-fully through the 2011 legislationand PNI. Local governments willstill try to sell it that way, how-ever.

Local government officialsshould focus on the big-impact is-sues, allow the proven public no-tice solution in our state to keepon working, and not spend somuch time and taxpayer dollars onhow to be less accountable andless transparent.

The author, Dennis DeRossett, is exec-utive director of the Illinois Press Associ-ation. The IPA represents more than 500newspapers. He can be reached at [email protected].

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Salem Township library settlement nearBy BILL KNIGHTFor The Weekly Post

YATES CITY – An oversight inthe disbursement of tax revenuesfrom Salem Township to the SalemTownship Public Library is aboutto be corrected, according to SalemTownship Supervisor Christine Be-wley.

The library district apparently re-ceived no funds from tax revenuesreceived by the township for years. A misunderstanding may have oc-curred after 1986, when the SalemTownship Free Public Library wasconverted to the Salem TownshipPublic Library District, accordingto Dana Mitchell, Knox County

Deputy of Tax Extension.In the last 12 years, the funds due

to the library added up more than$10,000, based on the library dis-trict’s share of 17.51 percent.

Last year, for example, the statepaid the township $6,277.98, ac-cording to documents obtained byThe Weekly Post under a Freedomof Information request. The li-brary’s 2014 share should havebeen $1,099.27.

The Library Board in Decemberrequested funds for which it’s eligi-ble to receive from the state’s Per-sonal Property Replacement Tax,which are revenues collected by thestate and paid to local governments

to replace money lost by local gov-ernments when their powers to im-pose personal property taxes oncorporations, partnerships, andother business entities were takenaway in 1979.

The Library Board also askedabout “recovering some of thefunds lost in the previous years.”Bewley said a resolution is immi-nent.

“I think we’re reaching an agree-ment,” she said. “It’s kind of inlimbo while we’re waiting for thelawyers to go over the settlement.”

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Farmington college student Horn honored

PEORIA – Cameron Horn, a sen-ior management major at BradleyUniversity, last week was honoredtwice. On May 7 Horn was one of 38students inducted into Bradley'schapter of the national honors society

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Poppy Day to be heldMay 22 in Farmington

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A friend had called himwhile he was visiting fam-ily in Georgia and askedhim to come to Illinois totake the job.

Farmington Police ChiefCarl Powell says the Illi-nois State Police have com-pleted interviews with asmany site workers as theycould contact, but the inter-views did not yield anyleads. Tips from Crime-Stoppers hotlines in Peoriaand Fulton counties alsohave led to dead ends.

“Somebody must knowsomething but they justmight be afraid to comeforward,” Vinasco said inNovember. “Maybe whatwould help (the investiga-tion) would be to figure outwhat the heck he was doingthere.

“It’s just really hard tolive with that.”

Fingerprints turned overto the Illinois State CrimeLab took months to

process, and matched nonecurrently in the databases,Powell said. Farmingtonpolice also have not heardfrom the fire marshal’s of-fice in months.

While the investigationhas been at a stand-still,Cervantes’s family hasbeen searching for answersand remembering hislegacy.

“I think the thing thathelps us cope is the waythat he lived life,” Vinascosaid. “I think he really ap-preciated life to the extentof making sure he made adifference with little every-day actions. ... Manny wasa very passionate person;everything he did was donewith all of his intention andall of his passion.”

At the time of his death,Cervantes was traveling thecountry filming a docu-mentary called “Bikelan-tis,” which he producedand directed.

Though work on thestory of “how cycling ischanging communities”was uncertain, Vinasco re-cently posted to the memo-rial “Livelikemanny”Facebook page that she hadvisited with the “Bikelan-

tis” editing team to checkon the film’s progress.

The future for the OldSchool Center, whichserved as a Christian retreatcenter at the time of the fireand was Farmington HighSchool until 2004, is uncer-tain.

Meister began demoli-tion on the burned portionof the building in earlyApril, and was givingbricks from the facade for asmall donation. The cap-stone over the entrance tothe school is slated to bemoved to Reed Park by theFarmington Historical So-ciety in a few weeks.

There was no insuranceon the building at the timeof the fire.

An official cause for thefire has not been deter-mined, but the Fire Mar-shal’s preliminary reportstates, “it is with a reason-able degree of fire inves-tigative certainty that thefire started on the thirdfloor.”

The lack of answers andcommunication is frustrat-ing for Cervantes’s family,especially his stepfatherRandy Venis.

“I feel like I’ve been re-

buffed,” he said. “Everyoneis cordial, but not forth-coming.”

Even entering the build-ing unwelcome would havebeen uncharacteristic ofCervantes, whom Veniscalls “my son.”

Venis visited both Chilli-cothe and Farmington inJune, not realizing howgreat a distance separatesthe two locations.

He and one of Cer-vantes’s brothers plannedto bike between their rela-tive’s last known locations,but after learning the dis-tance was nearly 40 miles,decided against it. How hisson traveled that expansewith no transportation isperplexing to Venis.

Cervantes also left all hisbelongings, including acomputer and his belovedbicycle, in Chillicothe.

“To leave that at ThreeSisters Park ... with no in-tention of returning ... inmy mind, is absolutely notpossible,” he said. “He wasrespectful of other people’sproperty. He would notbreak and enter and causedamage to get in.

“I feel that somethingterrible happened to him.”




Tyler Mustain (left)and Collin Grubbfrom WilliamsfieldHigh School explainWeb design coding toState Sen. Darin La-Hood (R-Dunlap) dur-ing TECH 2015, ademonstration ofschool technology onMay 7, in the StateCapitol. OtherWilliamsfield atten-dants were DrakeChandlee andteacher Kathy Wight.

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BILLTOWN: Pension change could cost $140,000mals ranging from household pets tobison and a 700-pound black bear.

Both students described their ex-periences as “awesome.”

Also impressive was a presenta-tion by the schools STEM team,which is active in Science, Technol-ogy, Engineering and Math. Stu-dents Hunter Aldred, EmilyHoward, Garrett Wight and BrandonYelm used a tabletop demonstrationon ideas on a coordinated commu-nity preparation for and response toa widespread power outage.

The team – which also includesJames Lofgren, Ethen Hunt and Jor-dyn Brownell – listed ideas on smartmeters and the smart grid, dieselgenerator usage (and compensatingfor emissions with an algae scrub-

ber) and grassroots education.Also, computer applications

teacher Kathy Wight briefly re-ported on three Williamsfield stu-dents – Drake Chandlee, CollinGrubb and Tyler Manthei – who at-tended a May 7 TECH 2015 Stu-dents for the Information Age eventat the State Capitol in Springfield,where they demonstrated their workbuilding free web sites for localcompanies.

Less positive news was reportedregarding state funding.

“The School Funding Reform Actof 2015 (SB1) recently earned anendorsement from the Chicago SunTimes,” Farquer said. “This legisla-tion calls for greater funding equityacross the state [but] passage of thisbill will result in a yearly loss of ap-

proximately $190,000 in statemoney for our district.”

In related funding concerns, lastweek’s state Supreme Court deci-sion that the 2013 pension reformlaw was unconstitutional couldmean the legislature will step up themove to shift local pension costs tolocal school districts, Farquer said.

“When they do, it will be about a$140,000 hit to our district,” he said.

In routine action, re-elected boardmembers Vicki Massie, Robert Raskand Teresa Stewart all were swornin for four-year terms, current BoardPresident Janet Callopy, Vice Presi-dent Rask and Secretary Massiewere re-elected to those posts, DixieBrown was reaffirmed as SchoolTreasurer, and existing policies andmeeting schedules were approved.




Elmwood’s junior highscholastic bowl team com-peted at the state meetlast weekend for the firsttime. Team members are:Front Row (left to right)Marshall Shissler, AnnaLehman, Leah Stephens,Clayton Bumphrey, KatieMeyers, Isabella Guppy,Austin Harkness andJackson Snider; MiddleRow (l to r) Julia Bledsoe,William Kellogg, GwynneIngersoll, Thomas Huff-cutt, Nicole Shoop, BenCrisco and Amy Christ;Back Row (l to r) AshleyLawrence, Jake Karn,Olivia Book, Jacob Brown,Julie Dunkel, EthanCrozier, Alex Naumannand Emma McClain.

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WINDMILL: Celebrating an American heritagepair, and one day I just approachedadministrators and asked, ‘What’sthe possibility of restoring it?’ andthey were all for it.”

So starting last summer, HardinSigns of Peoria, Walls IndustrialServices from Glasford and Ten-brook took down the dilapidatedwindmill, picked up and sand-blasted and painted the structureand blades, and renovated the motorand much more, respectively.

“First, I replaced the cross mem-bers so we could move it, then Iworked on the shaft and gears androds,” says Tenbrook, a retired proj-ect engineer for Solar Turbines,now a Caterpillar subsidiary.“I found parts at a company inYankton, S.D., and worked on ithere and there over the last year.”

On Monday morning, the revital-ized windmill lay on the ground atWildlife Prairie Park, covered by ablue tarp and ready to be raised andbolted to the platform Tenbrook

built.“Windmills are pretty unique,” he

said. “There’s a lot of ingenuitywith their design.”

Turning relatively slowly, theirdesign has a gearbox toward the topof the tower and a crankshaft thatconverts the rotary motion of thespinning blades into reciprocatingstrokes carried down through a rodto a pump cylinder at its base.

Besides showing improvementson ancient windmills used aroundthe world, Wildlife’s restored wind-mill will touch an American her-itage that could be lost, he says.

“The inception of windmills wasbrought on due to the limited supplyof gasoline-driven pump jacks andelectric pumps,” Tenbrook says.

“This [restored windmill] giveschildren the opportunity to learnhow many settlers used to get waterand how some places out west stilluse windmills to pump water.”

History hasn’t been kind to theonce-familiar American windmill.Invented in 1854, it let pioneer sod-busters rely on prairie breezes as arenewable resource. Mostly used tolift water from wells, some largervariations let individual farms orranches shell and grind grain. About600,000 such windmills were in op-eration in the 1930s in North Amer-ican, South Africa and Australia.

Today, a few new-fangled con-traptions operate on wind farmswhere electricity is generated forcentralized collection and distribu-tion. But after their century-longheyday, surviving classic windmillsmostly stand broken, creaking andgroaning,

Thanks to people like Tenbrook,their significance and maybe newrelevance will be appreciated.


Elmwood JH scholastic bowl makes stateELMWOOD – Elmwood’s

junior high scholastic bowl teamearned its first trip to the statemeet last Friday at the PeoriaCivic Center.

And while Elmwood’sbracket – which included the topthree teams from last year’s statemeet – proved to be veryrugged, the experience was apositive one, according to coachChris Herridge.

“(We had a) great group ofkids. They worked very well to-gether,” Herridge said. “After anextremely close loss in section-als last year, state was a goal allyear. They worked very hard toget there!”

Elmwood lost to eventual con-solation champion ChampaignNext Generation, 290-140, andalso dropped matches to second-place team Normal Metcalf

(255-90) and to Effingham St.Anthony (185-135).

Elmwood was the only non-private, non-laboratory, non-magnet school in the statecompetition, prompting some tocall the Trojans “the PublicSchool state champions.”

Elmwood advanced to state bywinning the Princeville sec-tional.


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Shrub roses provide color all seasonBy RON DIETERFor The Weekly Post

Until about 15 yearsago, hybrid tea roses werethe most popular rosesgrown. They produce thelong-stemmed elegantblossoms that we associ-ate with Valentine’s Dayand other romantic occa-sions.

Hybrid tea roses are notthe easiest to grow, how-ever. They require regularpruning, deadheading, fer-tilizing, and periodic ap-plications of fungicidesand insecticides to protectthe flowers and foliage.

Most gardeners todaydon’t have the time or thewill for all that fussiness.

What’s more, many va-rieties of hybrid tea rosesare not reliably winterhardy and need the pro-tection of heavy mulch orstyrofoam cones. Andeven hybrid tea rose afi-cionados have to admitthat, although the flowersare gorgeous, the bush it-self is leggy and ungainly.

In the year 2000, a fel-low from Milwaukeenamed Bill Radler intro-duced a shrub rose calledKnockout. He had spentyears working to developa rose that would bloomcontinuously with little at-tention or care.

He hit the jackpot. Since 2000, somewhere

around 100 million

Knockout roses have beensold, thanks to a strongmarketing program and aplant that lived up to thehype.

Radler has since intro-duced six other varietiesof Knockouts in colors ofreds, pinks, and yellow.

Radler’s Knockoutroses are highly resistant,but not immune, to manydiseases that plague othervarieties, such as blackspot, rust and mildew. Theshrubs are attractive witha mounded form andglossy, dark green foliage.

Of course, the main at-traction is the almost con-tinuous display of lovelyroses. Flowers grow inclusters and each flower isabout three inches across,The blossoms have a mildspicy scent.

Today, when you see acommercial landscapewith beds of bloomingroses, chances are thoseroses are Knockouts. Ihave seen the campusesof corporations and col-leges as well as McDon-alds and Pizza Huts with

large beds of beautifulblooming roses.

There are a good num-ber of other shrub andshrub-type roses availabletoday. Many were intro-duced long before Knock-outs entered the picture.

I have always likedCarefree Wonder, whichproduces rich, pink semi-double flowers overglossy green foliage. Itgrows four feet high andwide.

I had five of these rosesoutside my front door fornearly seven years. Inever sprayed them orprotected them from thewinter. They were ashardy and hearty as anyboxwood or lilac.

A shrub-type rose, actu-ally a polyanthus, calledThe Fairy is smaller instature, about two feethigh and wide, with fullydouble, light pink flowers.This rose looks great in amixed border and bloomswell, even in light shade.It puts on its best show inthe fall.

Knockout roses, as wellas other shrub roses, are“low maintenance,” butnot “no maintenance.” Infact they need as muchcare as most other shrubsin the landscape.

Shrub roses will bloomin light shade – that’sthree hours of direct sun-light.

They flower best in atleast six hours of full sun.

Set the plants about fourfeet apart in fertile, well-drained soil. Water themtwice a week the firstyear. After that, water

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If after a few years theshrub rose gets too largeand ungainly, just cut itway back to a foot or soabove the ground.

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Elmwood CUSD No. 322 Board of Education members, left to right, DeanCantu, Mark Davis, Tom Conklin and Claude Keefer on May 6 took part in thegroundbreaking for the $1.5 million renovation to the Junior High School. Workis scheduled to be completed by August, in time for the 2016-17 school year.Photo by Bill Knight.

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Farmington solar panels up and generatingBy MICHELLE SHERMAN

For The Weekly Post

FARMINGTON –Marking the culminationof two years of planning,Farmington CommunityUnit School District 265celebrated the beginningof independent powergeneration.

On May 9, the districthosted a ceremony tomark its new 756-kilowattcapable solar array, which

is comprised of 2,500 in-dividual panels mountedon the roof of the school.

The nearly $2-millionproject, of which$800,000 was funded bytaxpayer bonds, began inlate October and wascompleted this month.

The district received a$1.15-million grant fromthe Illinois Clean EnergyInitiative.

Roughly one-third of

the district’s total energyneeds are projected tocome from the array, withan estimated annual sav-ings of $60,000.

“Schools across Amer-ica use so much energy,but we need that energy toeducate our students,”Farmington CommunityHigh School senior andstudent body presidentMatt Williamson said. “Just think if every school

in America made 30 per-cent of its energy and howmuch that would save.”

Despite cloudy days,Steve Smith ofFarnsworth Group, thefirm that worked withDistrict 265 on the proj-ect, said the array alreadyhad generated more than$4,500 worth of power.

Continuing the innova-tion was a common themeof the ceremony, as speak-ers discussed plans forgreen energy classes,LED lighting and electri-cal recharging stations.

“Congratulations,Farmington, on really tak-ing a step toward the fu-ture,” said Sen. DaveKoehler (D-Peoria). “I’mgoing to bring people hereto see this (project) be-cause this is important.”

• In other school news, Farmington CUSD 265 islooking to change studentreport cards from tradi-tional letter grades to“standards-based.”

Report cards, whichwill be phased in begin-ning next year if ap-proved, are more detailedto give parents a betterunderstanding where stu-dents are toward meetingstate educational stan-dards, the Board of Edu-cation learned at itsMonday meeting.

The first year, lettergrades will be put along-side the standards grades,but those will be phasedout over time. Students ingrades K-5 will be first toreceive the new reports.

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April 2015 Peoria Co. Real Estate TransactionsDate Address Amount Grantor/grantee4/02 420 E. Main Street/Princeville $75,000 Mertens Estate/Sloan4/08 5505 Barberry Court/Edwards $259,000 Lagatta/Merna4/13 601 W. Main Street/Elmwood $131,000 Galligher/Nevells4/14 Pt E. 1/2 o SE Qtr 10-10-7/Radnor $18,500 Biggs/Martin4/15 17117 W. Mendell Road/Princeville $50,000 Galindo (Decd)/Pearson4/17 22815 N. Route 91/Princeville $210,000 Dell/Endress4/20 401 W. South Street/Princeville $83,000 Rodriguez/Rodriguez4/20 6807 N. Buckeye Drive/Edwards $289,000 Lackner (Tr)/Bergevin4/21 Pt of SE Qtr 23-10-5/Brimfield $11,000 Baptist Church Of Brimfield/Harmon4/21 6812 N. Ironwood Drive/Edwards $299,900 Walker/Jolliff4/21 7020 N. White Fir Drive/Edwards $212,000 Matulis/Anjinappa,Ramanjinappa4/22 217 E. South Street/Princeville $51,000 Moxley/Shepard4/24 Lot 3 Deerfield Sub/Radnor $75,000 Whitehurst-Wilkes Ent./Wulfekuhle4/27 127 E. Main Street/Princeville $50,000 Begner/Donsbach4/27 13614 N. Whittaker Road/Brimfield $217,500 Coyle/Carroll4/29 11807 W. Kevin Court/Brimfield $330,000 Zimmerman/Coyle4/30 305 Magnolia/Elmwood $96,000 Rushing/Homer

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Florence DaltonELMWOOD – Florence E. Dal-

ton, 99, of Elmwood, passed awayon Wednesday, May 6, 2015, atthe Country Comfort NursingHome in Elmwood.

She was bornon Jan. 13, 1916,in Williamsfieldto William andRuth (Cadwell)Pennington.

She marriedWillis E. Daltonon June 28,1937, in Joliet.He preceded herin death on Jan. 4, 1994.

Surviving is her son, Wayne(Connie) Dalton of Elmwood, sis-ter, Ruby Swedeen of Altona,grandchildren, Cathy (Mike)Clark, Jeremy (Denise) Dalton,Jeff Dalton, James Dalton and onegreat grandson, Christopher Dal-ton.

Also preceding her in death isone son Robert Dalton and onesister Ethel Dawson.

She was a member of the Elm-wood United Methodist Churchand loved crafting, camping,music, sewing, playing piano andfamily gatherings. Most of all shewas a loving mother and grand-mother.

Funeral services were May 9 atthe Oaks-Hines funeral home.

The Rev. Cathy Clark officiated.Burial was at the Elmwood

Township Cemetery.Memorials may be made to the

BYE ambulance or the ElmwoodUnited Methodist Church.

To leave online condolences,please visit www.oakshinesfuner-alhome.com.

Raymond BarnettFARMINGTON – Raymond L.

Barnett, 76, of Farmington diedMay 4 at Graham Hospital in Can-ton.

Cremation has been accorded. Amemorial service was May 8 atFirst Nazarene Church in Canton.

Oaks-Hines Funeral Home inCanton is in charge of arrange-ments.

Diana CageELMWOOD – Diana Kay Cage,

66, of Peoria, sister of an Elmwood

man, died May 6 at Richard L.Owens Hospice Home.

Survivors include husband TerryCage and brother Dave (Pat) Jonesof Elmwood.

A memorial service was May 11,2015, at Davison-Fulton Woolsey-Wilton Funeral Home in Peoria.

Condolences may be left atwww.woolsey-wilton.com.

Gordon CramerFARMINGTON – Gordon M.

“Doc” Cramer, 94, of Farmingtondied on May 6 at FarmingtonCountry Manor.

He was a U.S. Air Force veteran,serving in World War II in Europe.

Graveside service will be private,where military rites will be ac-corded.

Anderson-Sedgwick FuneralHome is in charge of arrangements.

James DonsbachMAQUON – James C. “Jim”

Donsbach, 74, of Maquon, brotherof a Princeville woman, died onMay 6.

A 1958 graduate of PrincevilleHigh School, he married MaryAlice Forney in 1969, after whichthey lived in Bradford, thenAbingdon and later Maquon.

Jim was a member of St.Patrick’s Catholic Church in Elm-wood.

Survivors include his children:Jill Donsbach of Galesburg; Jo

Ellen (Mike) Snyder of Abingdon;Jennifer (Blue) Carlson of Altona;Jim (Tonya) Donsbach ofMaquon; and Jason (Tracey)Donsbach of Maquon; 16 grand-children; and six great-grandchil-dren. He is also survived by hissister, Mary (Sidney) Stahl ofPrinceville.

A visitation was held May 11 atHaskell-Hott Funeral Homes inPrinceville, followed by crema-tion. Burial of ashes will be at alater date in Maquon Cemetery.

Condolences may be left atwww.haskellhott.com.

Caroline Haworth PRINCEVILLE – Caroline E.

Haworth, 100, formerly ofPrinceville, died May 4 at Sarah’sPlace in Glendale, Ariz.

Graveside services were May 8at the Rest Haven cemetery inGlendale.

Condolences may be left atlegacy.com.

James Isaacson EDWARDS – James M. Isaac-

son, 59, of Edwards died on May 6at home.

Cremation rites were accorded. Acelebration of life service will takeplace at a later date.

Condolences may be left atwww.thewiltonmortuary.com.Kenneth L.R. Johnson DAHINDA – Kenneth L.R.

Johnson, 71, of Galesburg, father ofa Dahinda woman, died May 8 atMarigold Health Care Center inGalesburg.

Survivors include wife DawnJohnson and daughter TonyaThompson of Dahinda.

Funeral services were May 11 atthe Hinchliff-Pearson-West Gales-burg Chapel, followed by with cre-mation.

Condolences may be left at www.h-p-w.com.

Stella MalcolmEDWARDS – Stella Ligino Mal-

colm, 105, of Chillicothe, grand-mother of an Edwards man, diedMay 4 at Heritage Health in Chilli-cothe.

Survivors include grandson Dan(Kim) Schilling of Edwards.

Condolences may be left atwww.vanhoe.com.

OBITUARIES

This Week’s Obituaries• Raymond Barnett, 76, Farm-ington• Diana Cage, 66, Elmwood• Gordon Cramer, 94, Farming-ton• Florence Dalton, 99, Elmwood• James Donsbach, 74, Maquon• Caroline Haworth, 100,Princeville• James Isaacson, 59, Edwards• Kenneth L.R. Johnson, 71,Dahinda• Stella Malcolm, 105, Edwards• LaVerne Miller, 94, Edwards• Russell Pulst, 87, Princeville• George Sales, 90, Brimfield• Norma L. Stroud, 88, Dahinda• Timothy Sutherland, 23,Fairview• O. Fred Woods, 72, Farming-ton

Dalton

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OBITUARIESLaVerne Miller

EDWARDS – LaVerne E.Miller, 94, of Peoria, mother ofan Edwards man, died on May1 at Manor Court in LibertyVillage.

Surviving are two sons, theRev. Ron C. (Maryanne) Millerof Edwards, and James D. (Jan)Miller of Urbandale, Iowa;seven grandchildren; and ninegreat-grandchildren.

Services were May 9 at St.Paul Lutheran Church in FortDodge, Iowa, with burial inNorth Lawn Cemetery in FortDodge.

Condolences may be left atlegacy.com.

Russell PulstPRINCEVILLE – Russell C.

Pulst, 87, of Chillicothe, grand-father of a Princeville man,

died May 3 at his home.Survivors include wife

Norma of Chillicothe andgrandson Robert (Erin) Pulst ofPrinceville.

Funeral services were May 7at the Chillicothe Bible Church,with interment at Blue RidgeCemetery in Edelstein, withmilitary rites.

Condolences may be left at www.hurdfamilyfunerals.com.

George SalesBRIMFIELD – George W.

Sales, 90, of Brimfield diedMay 8 at Heddington Oaks inWest Peoria.

George married Garnet F.Gaworski on Oct. 6, 1946, inPeoria, and she survives.

He served in the U.S. Armyand was a highly decoratedWorld War II veteran. George

was wounded in action while inItaly and France.

Funeral services were May13 at the First Assembly of GodChurch in Peoria. Burial was tobe at Swan Lake Memory Gar-dens in Peoria.

Condolences may be left atwww.thewiltonmortuary.com.

Norma L. StroudWOODHULL – Norma L.

Stroud, 88, of Woodhull,mother of a Dahinda woman,died May 5 at home.

Survivors include one daugh-ter, Vickie (Al) Hayden ofDahinda; two sons, Don (Eve-lyn) Stroud and Terry Stroud,both of Woodhull; two grand-children; and four great-grand-children.

Funeral services were May 9at Peterson Wallin Knox Fu-

neral Home in Woodhull, withburial in the Woodhull Ceme-tery.

Condolences may be left atwww.petersonwallinknox.com.Timothy Sutherland

FAIRVIEW – Timothy “T.J.”Sutherland, 23, of Fairview,nephew of a Farmingtonwoman, died May 6 at OSFSaint Francis Medical Center inPeoria.

Survivors include his father,Sherman “Sonny” L. Suther-land Jr. of Fairview, his mother,Christina (Merriman) Seward,of Lincoln, Ark., and auntDawn (Jim) Record of Farm-ington.

Services were May 12 at An-derson-Sedgwick FuneralHome in Farmington. Crema-tion rites were accorded follow-

ing the service.Condolences may be left at

sedgwickfuneralhomes.com.O. Fred Woods

FARMINGTON – O. Fred“Babe”Woods, 72, of Farming-ton died May 4 at OSF SaintFrancis Medical Center in Peo-ria.

Surviving are his mother,Peggy Van Fossen of Farming-ton; uncle, Dean E. Riccioni ofClaremont, Calif.; and severalcousins.

A graveside service was May9 at Oak Ridge Cemetery inFarmington.

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CLAIM NOTICEIN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

OF ILLINOIS, PEORIA COUNTYIn Re ESTATE OF )MARGARET F. HEINZ, ) No. 15-P-176Deceased. ) NOTICE is given to creditors of the death of MARGARET F. HEINZ, onJanuary 5, 2013. Letters of Office were issued by the above entitledCourt to GREGORY W. HEINZ, of 6506 North Smith Road, Edwards, Illi-nois 61528, ANGELA M. HEINZ MIAZGA, of 21498 Settlers Pond Drive,Frankfort, Illinois 60423, and THERESA A. HEINZ PRESTON, of 310Hopkins Street, Bartonville, Illinois 61607, as Executors, whose attor-neys of record are WHITNEY & POTTS, LTD., 118 West Main Street, P.O. Box 368, Elmwood, Illinois, 61529-0368. Claims against the Estatemay be filed in the Circuit Clerk's Of fice, Peoria County Courthouse, Peo-ria, Illinois, or with the repre senta tives or both on or before the 6th day ofNovember, 2015 or if maili ng or delivery of a Notice from the representa-tives is required by Sec. 18-3 of the Probate Act of 1975, the date statedin that Notice. Every claim filed must be in writing and state sufficient in-formation to notify the representative of the nature of the claim or otherrelief sought. Any claim not filed on or before that date is barred.Copies of a claim filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered by theclaim ant to the representatives and to the attorney within ten (10) daysafter it has been filed and shall file with the Court, proof of any requiredmailing or delivery of copies.DATED this 14th day of April, 2015.

GREGORY W. HEINZ, ANGELA M. HEINZ MIAZGA and THERESA A. HEINZ PRESTON, Executors of the

Estate of MARGARET F. HEINZ, Deceased.WHITNEY & POTTS, LTD.Attorneys for the Executors118 West Main StreetP. O. Box 368Elmwood, Illinois 61529-0368Telephone: (309) 742-3611Attorney No. 398Firm No. 675

CLAIM NOTICEIN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

OF ILLINOIS, PEORIA COUNTY

In Re ESTATE OF )ALICE E. SHERMAN, ) No. 15-P-206Deceased. )

NOTICE is given to creditors of the death of ALICE E. SHERMAN, onApril 15, 2015. Letters of Office were issued by the above entitledCourt to JOANNE S. HATHWAY, of 761 Knox Road 2000 E, Yates City,Illinois 61572, as Executor, whose attorneys of record are WHITNEY &POTTS, LTD., 118 West Main Street, P. O. Box 368, Elmwood, Illi-nois, 61529-0368. Claims against the Estate may be filed in the Cir-cuit Clerk's Of fice, Peoria County Courthouse, Peoria, Illinois, or withthe repre senta tive or both on or before the 20th day of November,2015, or if maili ng or delivery of a Notice from the representative is re-quired by Sec. 18-3 of the Probate Act of 1975, the date stated in thatNotice. Every claim filed must be in writing and state sufficient infor-mation to notify the representative of the nature of the claim or otherrelief sought. Any claim not filed on or before that date is barred.Copies of a claim filed with the Clerk must be mailed or delivered bythe claim ant to the representative and to the attorney within ten (10)days after it has been filed and shall file with the Court, proof of any re-quired mailing or delivery of copies.

DATED this 30th day of April, 2015.

JOANNE S. HATHWAY, Executor of the Estate of ALICE E. SHERMAN, Deceased.

WHITNEY & POTTS, LTD.Attorneys for the Executors118 West Main StreetP. O. Box 368Elmwood, Illinois 61529-0368Telephone: (309) 742-3611

STATE OF ILLINOISIN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT

OF ILLINOIS, PEORIA COUNTY

FARMERS STATE BANK, an Illinois )Banking Corporation, Plaintiff, )vs. ) CASE NO.: 15-CH-143REYNOLDS THEATRES )ENTERTAINMENT, INC., )VERNON O. REYNOLDS, )UNKNOWN OWNERS and )NONRECORD CLAIMANTS, Defendants.)

NOTICE OF FORECLOSUREThe requisite affidavit for publication having been filed, notice is herebygiven to you, Unknown Owners and Non-Record Claimants, Defendantsin the above entitled suit, that said suit has been commenced in the Cir-cuit Court of Peoria County by said Plaintiff against you and other Defen-dants praying for foreclosure of a certain Mortgage conveying thepremises described as follows, to wit:

A part of Lots Numbered Two (2) and Three (3), in Block Lettered “R”, inthe Town (now City) of Elmwood as laid out by William J. Phelps, de-scribed as commencing at the Northwest corner of said Lot NumberedTwo (2); running thence East Fifty (50) feet; thence South Eighty (80) feet;thence West Fifty (50) feet; thence North Eighty (80) feet to the place ofbeginning; situated in the County of Peoria and State of Illinois;

Commonly known as 122 West Main Street, Elmwood, Illinois, 61529P.I.N.: 11-07-435-001

ANDTwenty-five (25) feet off the South side of Lot Fifteen (15) and Seven (7)feet off the North side of Lot Eighteen (18), both in JONES FIRST ADDI-TION to the City of Canton; ALSO

One hundred (100) feet Two and one-half (2 ½) inches off the West endof the following: a part of Lot Fifteen (15) in JONES FIRST ADDITION toCanton, described as follows: commencing Twenty-five (25) feet North ofthe Southeast corner of said lot, running thence West to the West line ofsaid lot, thence North Twenty-three feet two (2) inches, thence East to theEast line of said lot to a point Twenty-three (23) feet two (2) inches Northof the Place of Beginning, thence South to the Place of Beginning, includ-ing the right and easement to use and enjoy jointly with the owners of theproperties adjoining said premises on the North and South the party wallson the North and South line of said premises and subject to the use ofsaid party walls by said adjoining owners; and including also the right andeasement to use and enjoy, as a party wall, jointly with the owners of theEast Eighty-one (81) feet three and one-half (3 ½) inches of the NorthTwenty-three (23) feet two (2) inches of the South Forty-eight (48) feettwo (2) inches of said Lot Fifteen (15) the brick wall running North andSouth along the East end of said One hundred (100) feet two and one-half(2 ½) inches, half of which said brick wall is included in said One hundred(100) feet two and one-half (2 ½) inches, together with the right to extendsaid wall vertically, said wall and any vertical extension thereof to bemaintained at the expense of the owners of said West One hundred (100)feet two and one-half (2 ½) inches; reserving, however, to the owners ofthe East Eighty-one (81) feet three and one-half (3 ½) inches of the NorthTwenty-three (23) feet Two inches of the South Forty-eight (48) feet two(2) inches of said Lot Fifteen (15) a right-of-way Four feet in width, clearof walls and other permanent obstructions, across the North side of saidWest One hundred (100) feet two and one-half (2 ½) inches, and runningfrom the alley along the West side of said Lot Fifteen (15) to the buildinglocated on the East Eighty-one (81) feet three and one-half (3 ½) inchesof the North Twenty-three (23) feet two (2) inches of the South Forty-eight (48) feet two (2) inches of said Lot Fifteen (15), said right-of-way tobe used and enjoyed in perpetuity jointly by the owners of both of saidproperties, and in such manner as not to interfere with the use and enjoy-ment of either of said owners, and shall be kept paved with concrete atthe expense of the owners of said West One hundred (100) feet Two andone-half (2 ½) inches, situated in the County of Fulton and State of Illinois;Commonly known as 62 North Main Street, Canton, Illinois 61520P.I.N.s: 09-08-27-412-007 and 09-08-27-412-009that summons was duly issued out of said Court against you as pro-vided by law, and that said suit is now pending. Now therefore, unlessyou, said above-named Defendants, file your answer to the Complaintin said suit or otherwise make your appearance therein in the Office ofthe Clerk of the Court, Circuit Court of Peoria County, Illinois, 324 MainStreet, Peoria, IL 61602, on or before May 30, 2015, default may beentered against you at any time after that day and a Judgment enteredin accordance with the prayer of said Complaint.CORDIS & CORDISAttorneys at Law129 North Walnut StreetP.O. Box 445Princeville, Illinois 61559309.385.4616 (t) 309.674.5994 (f)Attorneys for Farmers State Bank, an Illinois Banking Corporation,Elmwood, Illinois

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BASEBALL: Brimfieldsuffers tough losses

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Princeville (24-7) fell toStillman, 9-2, despite twohits from Natalie Cokel.

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Pastor Leonard Thomas135 S. Galena St., Brimfield

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EDWARDSBethany Baptist Church7422 N. Heinz Ln., Edwards

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Christ Alive! Community ChurchPastor Lance Zaerr

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ELMWOODCrossroads Assembly of God

Pastor Tim Cavallo615 E. Ash St., Elmwood

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St. Patrick’sCatholic ChurchFather Paul Stiene

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United Methodist Church of Elmwood

Pastor Bradley F. Watkins II821 W. Main St., Elmwood

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New Hope FellowshipAssembly of GodPastor Tom Wright

1102 N. Illinois Route 78Farmington

(309) 245-2957Sun. Worship: 10 amWed. Worship: 7 pm

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An 11-1 loss at thehands of East Peoria onSaturday didn’t producemany positives as base-running mistakes, a merethree hits and aggressiveEast Peoria bats and baserunning were way toomuch.

“We just didn’t comeready to play on Satur-day,” Indians’ coach Bran-don Porter said.

On Tuesday, B-E lost atSouth Fulton, 9-7, as thehost team scored five runsin the fifth and sixth in-nings. B-E managed ninehits and seven doubles inthe loss.

What could’ve been abetter result last Thursday,a 3-0 ICAC conferencegame lead over Delavanin the second inning, waswashed away by heavyrains and lightning.

Top-seed B-E opens re-gional play May 20 at4:30 p.m. at MonmouthUnited vs. the winner be-tween Monmouth-Ro-seville and Knoxville.

PrincevilleThe 22-3 Princes faced

a few challenges thatcould benefit them downthe road. An unfinishedgame versus top confer-ence rival Ridgewood lastThursday, in whichPrinceville will pick upwith a 2-1 third inninglead, is good medicineleading into postseasonplay.

A tough 1-0 loss to apesky Farmington – inwhich T.J. Kielion battledthe opponents to the wire,scattering six hits andstriking out seven –should provide Princevilleincentive.

“Our offense struggledthis week. In the seventh,against Farmington, wehad a runner on third withone out, and couldn’tscore him,” Princes coachChris Delbridge said.

Austin Brodine had twoof four hits for Princevillein the loss.

Princeville is top seed atVarna Midland and opensregional play May 20 at4:30 p.m. vs. the winnerbetween Midland andCullom Tri-Point.ROWVA-WilliamsfieldThe 11-14 Cougars saw

only practice this weekdue to a light weeklyschedule and rain.

The last result was a 5-4Monday (May 4) win overBushnell Prairie City-West Prairie. Zach Smithpicked up the pitching winin the one run non-confer-ence matchup.

If the weather holds upin the current week, theCougars will play everyweekday, including a Fri-day twin bill, followed byregional play on Monday(May 18), against Farm-ington on the opponents’home turf.

“We should be rested upfor a very, very busy weekahead,” R-W coach JohnClark said.


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59 area athletes reach IESA state track meetFrom Weekly Post Staff Reports

A contingent of 59 area juniorhigh track athletes shined in sec-tionals last Saturday and qualifiedfor the IESA Class A state meet Fri-day and Saturday at the EastSideCentre in East Peoria.

At press time the IESA had notreleased seedings.

Friday’s schedule starts at 11:15a.m. with a parade of athletes andthen includes field event prelimsand finals, prelims for hurdles andthe 100 and finals in the 400 and1600. All other finals are Saturday,starting at 9 a.m.

Farmington athletes are compet-ing at the Beardstown Class AASectional this Saturday.

BRIMFIELD JUNIOR HIGHGIRLS - 8th Grade

• Kamryn Cuevas – 400, 4x100, 4x400• Sydney Hartwig – 100 hurdles, 4x400• Mallory Meinke – 4x100• Sadie Rumbold – 800, 4x100, 4x400• Delaney Smith – 4x100, 4x400• Lexi Snyder – Shot put, discus• Lindsey Stenger – 4x100, shot put• Ali Wagner – 4x400

BOYS - 7th Grade• Jakoby McKown – 1600

ELMWOOD JUNIOR HIGHGIRLS - 7th grade

• Kate Yurkovich – high jumpGIRLS - 8th grade

• Emma McClain – shot put• Grayson Rynearson – discus

BOYS - 7th Grade• Wade Dawson – 4x100, 4x400• Victor Lampe – 4x400• Zach Marincic – long jump, 4x100• Braden McFall – 4x100• Eli McKinty – 4x400• Eli Stevenson – 4x400• Logan Wallace – 4x100• Cody Winter – 4x100, 4x400

BOYS - 8th grade• Jacob Brown – 800, 4x200, 4x400• Jaden Beckwith – shotput, 4x200,4x400• Ricky Hightower – high jump• Griff Inskeep – 800• Henry Lampe – 4x200, 4x400• Charlie McKinty – 1,600• Daniel Tomlinson – shot put, discus• Logan Whitney – 1,600, 4x400• Brady Windish – 4x200

KICKAPOO ST. MARY’SGIRLS - 7th Grade

• Isabella Welker – 100• Aliza Welker – 100, 200

GIRLS - 8th Grade• Grace Nogaj – 400, long jump

BOYS - 7th Grade• Eric Lenzi – discus

BOYS - 8th Grade

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GIRLS - 7th Grade• Brinlee Bauman – 100, 4x100, 4x400• Grace Dearing – 100 hurdles• Carrie Gill – 100 hurdles, 4x100• Emma Lane – 200, 4x100, 4x400• Libby Martin – 100, 4x100, 4x400• Morgan Rakestraw – 4x400

GIRLS - 8th Grade• Grace Bowermaster – 4x200, 4x400• Emily Green – 100 hurdles, 4x200,4x400• Alyssa Headley – 4x200, 4x400• Megan Schupbach – 4x200, 4x400

BOYS - 7th Grade• Aaron Calhoun – 4x200• Dean Dearing – 4x100• Michael Fuchs – 4x200• Carter Johnson – high jump, 4x100• Ernie Perkins – 4x100• Bryce Radon – 4x200• Nick Ramirez – 4x200• Cody Thole – high jump, 4x100

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WILLIAMSFIELD JUNIOR HIGHGIRLS - 8th Grade

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place relays in the 4x100 (45.34),4x200 (1:38.57) and 4x400(3:40.46).

Joining Gilstrap on all three re-lays was senior Max Balagna, whoalso placed second in the 100 andtied a school record time of 10.92.Balagna was second to teammateEric Higgs in the long jump (19-5).Balagna jumped 19-4.75. Balagnawas also third in the 200 (23.26).

Higgs was on all three relays,which also included Cody Jepson(4x100), Josh Lozier (4x200) andGavin Garcia (4x400).

Other top finishers for Farming-ton were Lozier with a second inthe pole vault (10-3), Colton Evans’third in the discus (137-9) andJonah Cecil, who was third in the

3,200 (10:52.12) and fourth in the1,600 5:10.15).

“Our kids set a goal to win thismeet and have taken care of busi-ness on and off the track to achievetheir goal,” Hardesty said. “Elm-wood and Rushville are good teamswith lots of talented athletes andthey are extremely well coached, sowe knew we had to be at the top ofour game to beat them.

“The Prairieland Conference isone of the premier Class A trackconferences in the state and it’s anhonor to be this year’s champion.”

Elmwood-Brimfield had fivefirst-place finishes: Hayden Gole-mon posted a personal best time of41.27 in the 300 hurdles, Matt Os-mulski was first in the 1,600(4:49.72), Devin Jones won the

high jump (6-1), Nate Herridgewon the 3,200 (10:45.62) and the4x800 relay (Herridge, Osmulskiand Kelly and Cooper Hoffmann)won in 8:53.37, off its 8:35 pace oflast week due mostly to the condi-tions.

“All the times are slower and thejumps aren’t as good because therewere 18-19 mph winds all night,”E-B coach Gregg Meyers said.“But our distance guys did fantas-tic, Golemon had his best time,Devin stepped up and we scoredpoints in almost everything.”

E-B also got two seconds fromDerek McCoy in the 1,600 and3,200, a second from Kelly Hoff-mann in the 800 and a third-placein the shotput from Jackson Hark-ness against a loaded field ofthrowers.

On the girls side, Cassie Karn ofE-B won the 3,200 in 14:01.30 andJenna Musgrave was fourth in theshot put (29-4).

Next up for the girls teams istoday’s (May 14) Class 1A sec-tional at Taylor Ridge Rockridge.Elmwood, Princeville, Farmingtonand ROWVA-Williamsfield allcompete in the same sectional.

Peckham and Skaggs will beback in the relays for the LadyFarmers, who head off to the sec-tional with confidence.

“Mercer County will probablywin the sectional, but we want tomake sure we take care of businessand do the things we can,” Vallassaid.


Brimfield senior catcher RyleighKeith signed to play college soft-ball with Illinois College in Jack-sonville. Keith is a starter on thisyear’s 24-5 B-E team.

Keith also played basketball atBrimfield. Brimfield scramble –A scramble

to benefit the Brimfield boys bas-ketball team will be held Sunday,May 31, at Weaver Ridge GolfCourse at 1 p.m.

Cost is $100 per person, $400 perfoursome for 18 holes and a meal

to follow. Sponsor signs are avail-able for $100.

Participants can win prizes on thecourse and receive a gift from theteam.

Text or call Scott Carlson at(309) 645-5684 or email him [email protected] cetera – Elmwood graduate

Bekka Roberts is part of a DePauwDivision III softball team that wonits regional on Sunday and is one of16 teams left playing.Email information to jeff@wkly-

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Spring rainskeep baseballteams at bay

By PHIL JOHNSONFor The Weekly Post

Spring rains minimized games played inthe past week, and that could lead to a verybusy upcoming slate for area baseball teamsin this last week leading up to regional play,which starts May 18.

FarmingtonThe 13-14 Farmers made the best of their

week with a pitching and defensive gem overthe very good Princeville Princes in a 1-0Walter Zessin complete game, four-hit vic-tory on May 6.

With the outstanding team effort, all thatwas needed was some simple contact hittingas Trey Swearingen reached second on anerror in the sixth frame and was eventuallymoved to home by the bat of Caleb Fruendt.

“What a game Walter pitched and Trey andCaleb got the bat on the ball for us,” Farmerscoach Josh Putrich said.

No. 3 seed Farmington opens postseasonplay May 18 by playing host to No. 6 seedROWVA-Williamsfield at 4:30 p.m.

Brimfield-ElmwoodBrimfield-Elmwood (18-13) got in two

complete games, and neither was the out-

Softball teamstuning up forpostseason

By PHIL JOHNSONFor The Weekly Post

With postseason play starting Mon-day (May 18), area softball teams spentthe past week tuning up – with mixedresults.

Brimfield-ElmwoodThe Lady Indians (24-5) followed a

21-4 rout of ROWVA-Williamsfield onMay 6 with a hard-luck 1-0 loss toBeardstown on Saturday.

The latter loss came despite anotherstellar performance of pitching fromMorgan Florey, who fanned 15 and al-lowed only two hits and no walks. Therun was unearned.

“We were flat, getting just one teamhit, from Kendra Gorham, and Beard-stown played very good,” Lady Indianscoach Kurt Juerjens said.

It was a different story against R-W,as sluggers Florey and Morgan Ledbet-ter each took Lady Cougars’ pitches outof the park, Florey’s being for a grandslam. Hannah Baysingar and Abby Fri-etsch each had two RBIs. Gorhampitched, striking out nine and allowingjust one hit.

B-E opens its postseason May 20 at

4:30 p.m. in the Tremont Regionalagainst the winner of Knoxville vs.Deer Creek-Mackinaw.

FarmingtonIt was just one game for the Lady

Farmers (12-12), but it was well worthit – for the 7-6 Allie Sprague pitchingwin, the Lisa Strough pitching save andthe cause for which Farmington andLewistown raised money.

“Our game with Lewistown the pastfour years has been (played) wearing St.Jude t-shirts, and each girl raisingmoney for St Jude. My son Jerett andLewistown young man Luke Barclayhave been St Jude patients,” Farmingtoncoach Jen Fauser said.

Farmington opens postseason playMay 18 at 4:30 p.m. at home vs. No. 5

Farmington boys, girls track sweep Prairieland meetBy JEFF LAMPEWeekly Post Staff Writer

LEWISTOWN – A windyMonday night didn’t botherFarmington’s track teams in thePrairieland Conference meet.

Farmington’s boys and girlsteams both raced to first-placefinishes and the girls posted aconference-record 135 points atthe annual event. This is thethird time Farmington hasswept the boys and girls com-petition, which also happenedin 1983 and 1984 according toboys coach Jim Hardesty.

“It was a great night to be aFarmer,” Hardesty said.

Highlighting the evening forthe Lady Farmers was freshman

Jordan Peckham, who won the100 (11.84 seconds), 200(25.92) and 400 (1:03.21) andset a meet and school record inthe 200. Her time in the 100was also a school record.

Peckham also ran on theLady Farmers winning 4x100relay (54.29), but got a breakfrom her other normal relay du-ties. Also resting was KenzieSkaggs, who has been botheredby an injury and returned to seelimited action Monday, placing

second in the 400 and third inthe 200.

Even so, Farmington man-aged to sweep the girls relays,winning the 4x200 (1:57.76),4x400 (4:29.25) and the 4x800(11:22.56).

“Peckham did a great job buta lot of credit has to go to theother girls who were goodenough to let me move Peck-ham and Skaggs off the relays,”Lady Farmers coach Toby Val-las said. “It was a great team ef-fort and everybody stepped up.”

Relay standouts includedCalli Fletcher, Payton Peck-ham, Allyx Camp and HaleyHuls. Huls ran all four relaysand had just a few minutes to

rest between the 4x100 and4x800.

Fletcher also had personalbest jumps in the triple jumpand high jump. And AmberKampen was second in the polevault (9-3) and second in the300 hurdles (52.11). HannahJostes was second in shot put(31-7) and discus (104-10).

On the boys side, Farmingtonfinished with 127 points toplace ahead of Rushville-Indus-try (112) and Elmwood-Brim-field (99).

Junior Steven Gilstrap wonthe 200 (22.85) and 400(53.29), was third in the 100(11.18) and was part of second-


Girls Sectional• Area girls track teams will

compete in the Class 1A TaylorRidge Rockridge Sectionaltoday (May 14).

Brimfield-Elmwood senior Ryleigh Keith was 3-for-4 with a double, triple and tworuns scored in this 12-0 win over Farmington on May 5. Keith recently signed toplay softball at Illinois College. Photo by Collin Fairfield.

Jordan Peckham won threeevents. Photo by Dave Giagnoni.


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