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Carroll Catholic state champs

[DEC. 22, 2000]  Carroll Catholic girls are the new state champs. This is their first state title. The championship game of the Illinois Elementary School Association Girls Class 8A state basketball tournament was played at Jacksonville Thursday night.

[sports report]

 

For ESDA and 9-1-1 helpers

A night of honors and appreciation

[DEC. 22, 2000]  On Sunday, Dec. 17, at 6 p.m., approximately 150 emergency volunteers and friends gathered in the Myers Student Center at Lincoln College. They came for the eighth annual ESDA and 9-1-1 awards dinner. The feast was catered by Warren Wendlandt, who runs the catering service at Lincoln College and is an emergency volunteer in his spare time.

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School District 27 board begins
planning for construction process

[DEC. 22, 2000]  Members of the District 27 school board are tackling some of the complex problems involved in building the two new schools that will replace Central Elementary and Lincoln Junior High School, such as exactly how much supervision of the construction process the architect is responsible for and whether to hire a construction manager.

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GOOD NEIGHBORS

In the spirit of good will!

[DEC. 22, 2000]  In the true spirit of the season, Erv Guyett is giving away a 1995 Chevrolet Cavalier to a Lincoln resident in need. Today at noon, Frank Watts and his wife, Michelle, formally received this needed gift.

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In a land of plenty, the larder is stocked

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SPORTS TALK

Cook leads Illinois to victory
in border war battle

By Greg Taylor

[DEC. 22, 2000]  Lincoln's Brian Cook, playing what coach Bill Self called "the best half (of basketball) by anyone on our team this year," led Illinois to an 86-81 overtime victory over rival Missouri on Thursday evening at the sold-out Savvis Center in St. Louis, Mo. Cook had 23 points in the first half alone on 9-of-10 shooting and finished with 25 points and 11 rebounds, both team highs for the 9-2 Illini. Brian finished the game with two 3-point baskets and made all three of his free throw attempts.

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Five chances in January to give the gift of life

[DEC. 22, 2000]  Click below to see times and places for Logan County blood drives.

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- Allen Dellinger

- R. Lyle Staats


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