Outside
youth used in
local business tobacco sting
[NOV.
24, 2000] The
businesses listed below all passed tobacco compliances in a sting
conducted over a two-week period. Lincoln city police brought in
underage youth from out of town to go into all the local businesses
that sell tobacco products. The youth were unable to attain the
products from 100 percent of the 19 locations in Lincoln. These
Lincoln businesses get a gold star for watching out for our youth!
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Green Oil
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Fifth Street Food Mart
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Quick Way Foods
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Wal-Mart
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Qik-n-EZ
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Eagles Country Market
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Burwell’s (Keokuk and
Travel Plaza locations)
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Illico Independent Oil Co.
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IGA
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J.C. Pour House
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Kroger
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Bruns Service Station
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CVS
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Tobacco Warehouse
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Clark
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Old Joe’s
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Ayerco
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Apollo Mart
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Walgreens
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[Jan
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Logan
County Board
Rezoning and budget approved
[NOV.
22, 2000] The
Logan County Board voted 8 to 5 Tuesday evening to rezone eight
acres in rural Atlanta's Eminence Township from agriculture to B1,
paving the way for the construction of an FM radio station
transmitting tower.
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The
275-foot tower, to be located on "Lazy Row," was met with
objections from people living in Eminence Township, citing deaths of
songbirds and migrating game birds from the support wires and also
the appearance it would make in the rural area.
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Roger
Bock, one of the five to vote against the rezoning, referred to the
"unique environment" that would be displaced by the tower.
Beth
Davis, a board member who also voted against it, said that she had
contacted people at the University of Illinois and discussed the
impact it would have on wildlife.
"This
tower will have more of an impact on songbirds," she said.
"The
wires will kill many songbirds, and carcasses are generally not
found because of predators that find them," Davis added.
This
was in reference to comments made by Dick Hurley, who supported the
rezoning efforts.
"I
visited three towers around Logan County and didn't find any dead
birds," Hurley said.
"I
found there were only live ones in and around the tower, that flew
when I approached. None of them hit the wires," he said.
Davis
also told board members and those present from the Atlanta area that
most of the problem, according to the University of Illinois, occurs
during the night, when songbirds are in flight.
Those
voting for the rezoning were Doug Dutz, David Hepler,
Richard
Hurley, Dick Logan, Phil Mahler, Clifford Sullivan, Terry Werth and
Darrell Deverman.
In
addition to Bock and Davis, those opposing the construction were
Paul Gleason, Lloyd Hellman and Rod White.
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In
other board action, unanimous approval was given for the FY 2001
budget totaling $9.6 million in revenues, an increase over last
year's $9.4 million. Expenditures total $10.5. Estimated beginning
balances are $6.8 million.
Rod
White, finance chairman, told the board that this was the eighth
consecutive balanced budget passed by the board.
A
$2.6 million tax levy was also approved.
A
motion made by Davis, with a second by Terry Werth, to increase the
hotel/motel tax from 3½ percent to 4½ percent was approved.
A
motion by Hurley to give half of the increase to Main Street to help
fund the "Looking for Lincoln" program, also seconded by
Werth, failed.
Opponents
to the motion wanted the money to go into the tourism budget which
is overseen by the board. More control of the increase by the board
was one reason given by opponents to the measure.
The
board also passed two resolutions of appreciation, for board
Chairman Darrell Deverman and Richard Hurley. Both men decided not
to seek re-election.
Hurley
has served 28 years on the board and Deverman 10 years.
Appointments
were also made naming Terry L. Storer the assistant director of the
Emergency Services and Disaster Agency of Logan County and naming
Lucille Pech and Gillette Ransom to the Abraham Lincoln Tourism
Bureau.
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The
board also voted unanimously to raise related fees in the recorder's
office to fund a geographical information system to map Logan County
more accurately. This action follows the Illinois Legislature's
approval last June of funding such a service by allowing each county
board to raise these fees.
The
$3 increase will become effective in January 2001.
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Feeling
thankful? Or are you in too big of a hurry to get things done?
An
interview with Dan Bird
[NOV.
22, 2000] Thanksgiving.
We pause now to offer thanks. On the eve of that big thankful day of
the year, what are your thoughts? Are you too preoccupied thinking
of all there is to do for the holiday — all the shopping, fixing
meals, taking care of kids, running around on errands, cleaning,
company coming over — all the proverbial ups and downs of the
holidays.
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Whether
you are simply wondering what someone else finds to be grateful for
on this chilly day here in the heartland, or are on a quest to sort
out your own thankfulness, you are sure to glean something from the
insights gained by one local man’s experience. He shares from the
heart his profound experience. He has boiled it down to the most
important of the important.
Dan
and Elaine Bird came to Lincoln four years ago for Dan to study at
Lincoln Christian Seminary. He graduated in May with a master of
arts in counseling ministry. The following is an account of his
unique experience that brings him to say, "I’ve just got to
be the most grateful person in Logan County."
Wouldn’t
we all like to say that? If we could take heed of the lessons he so
graciously shares with us here, we could all be living much fuller
lives.
Dan Bird
begins telling his story:
After
about five years of battling prostate cancer we’d exhausted most
of the traditional methods, and one year ago tomorrow, the day
before Thanksgiving, I got the bad news that the cancer had spread
from small spots on the bones to all over the bones from head to
toe. From my skull to down near my ankles and all points in between,
and something it doesn’t normally do, it even went to the liver. I
was pretty shaken up. It was a rough Thanksgiving and a rough
Christmas. At that point, since we had exhausted everything that is
considered effective, my future was looking pretty bleak. Most
people, including medical personnel, were pretty sure that it was
going to be my last holiday last year, and anyone that knew my
prognosis believed that that was going to be it! And I fell in line
with them. I believed that they were correct.
I
wrote a will, I planned a funeral. I called all the people I wanted
to be pallbearers, the whole nine yards, so I could get that behind
me and so that my wife wouldn’t have to deal with it. Anything
else I felt like I needed bring to closure, I did! Any conversations
I need to have, that kind of thing, (I did).
But,
it’s a year later and the next Thanksgiving is just one day away,
and I’m here! 2000 was such a roller coaster I’m out of breath.
We did some nontraditional therapy and chemotherapy, which is
usually not very effective against prostate cancer. It has been
moving the cancer back. At least at this moment that’s what’s
been happening.
So,
I’m looking forward to this Thanksgiving. This Thursday is going
to be my best Thanksgiving. I’m going to my son’s house and I am
incredibly grateful. I am so, so, looking forward to Christmas!
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Four
little questions Bird agreed to answer:
Q:
What do you find to be thankful for this year?
A:
Oh my — being here, this is a big thing for me! I am not taking it
for granted, because I was so convinced I would not be alive for
this coming Thanksgiving and Christmas. I had a lot of reasons to
believe that.
I
know it sounds trite to say I am grateful to be alive, but I guess
you really have to experience having it taken away from you to
really appreciate it. I guess it would be like someone having their
sight restored or their hearing restored. I’m incredibly
grateful just to be here this year.
I
guess, probably what really adds color to it all, is how close I
have gotten to so many people this last couple of years while I was
dealing with cancer. This last year, particularly when people
thought I was going to die, how deeply they would share with me. How
much they would care for me.
I am so grateful for the relationships that came out of my illness.
Q:
You have had five different death sentences. Many people know the
charged feelings we get after we have a close brush with death. Your
experiences have not been mere brushes, but definite pronouncements
made with certainty. Miraculously you are still here. Could you say
a little more about what happens when you face and survive this
repeatedly?
A:
It wakes up your senses! It really, really does! What has happened
with me, and I think this is choice because I have talked to other
people who have faced these things, every one faces it a little
differently, but what happened to me was it put everything in
priority. The things that I used to think were important, the
goals I set and raised, I found out that many of them were really
secondary. What is happening (now) is that I’m enjoying life so
much because I am finding the things that are really important.
I focus and function on those and probably that gets centered
around people, not accomplishing my goals in life, and not
bringing in income.
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My
wife and I were pretty middle class before we moved to Lincoln. This
illness has taken away much of our financial security, but it hasn’t
robbed us of anything that’s important. Our love for each other
has grown, and I’ve found out how much I can depend on
Elaine. I had no idea how much I needed her. It spreads from
there to how much I need other people and how much I
want to be a part of other people’s lives.
When
I thought I was going to die, and miraculous is the word, for
whatever reason God decided I needed to be here a little longer than
what the doctors originally thought, I have (been forced) to look it
over. I don’t say this every day, but I know I live it. All right,
I’m alive now when I shouldn’t be, what am I supposed to do with
that? Who am I suppose to talk to? What purpose am I here to
fulfill? God has given me more time and there is a reason for that!
I usually find myself involved in someone else’s life when I
follow that line of thinking.
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Q:
How do you stay focused on being thankful?
A:
I guess I was struggling with this question until it hit me why! It
was bothering me because I don’t always stay focused on being
thankful. I’m taking chemotherapy every week, and I’m having a
nasty reaction to it as far as being weak all week long. It’s not
as bad as it could be, but it keeps me from being productive as I
want to be. I can only work part time and that sort of drives me
crazy because there’s so many things that I want to do that I can’t
do. And it’s very easy to sink into despondency. It’s very easy
to begin feeling sorry for myself.
In
order to be thankful, it is a matter of focus.
Being thankful! I don’t make it (to being thankful) enough.
This week has been easy. There was a great sermon at church, people
are talking about being grateful for Thanksgiving, and I’ve just
got to be the most grateful person in Logan County! There can’t be
anyone more grateful for Thanksgiving than I am because I know that
I dodged a bullet to be here, maybe more than one. But I want to
make that decision, and when I make that decision, then it starts
happening.
Q:
If you could recommend one thing, what would you say we should all
do this season?
A:
That is probably the easiest question I have ever been asked. Now,
if I had been asked that question five years ago I probably would
have come up with something a little more along the lines with my
profession. I would have probably tried to come up with something
profound in a sermon or a lesson, but I’ll tell you what, this
last year has been so experiential. This last year has made so clear
to me my very favorite line in any movie or any book, from Charles
Dickens in the "Christmas Story," when the ghost cries
out, "Mankind
was my business!"
I
think about last Christmas and the people that came to my door.
(They came doing) "The Twelve Days of Christmas." They
came by every day doing another one every day for 12 days. It was
hilarious, but it’s
so vivid in my mind because people cared.
Some
days at church I can’t make it up to greet people. I end up
sitting in a pew. I can’t get up and go shake hands, but they come
to me. And these people bring their hearts to me. They bring
their lives to me. These are the things that keep me going.
It’s
other people that
drives me! My relationship with my boys; they’ve become my best
friends. My relationship with my wife, the sweetest relationship on
earth!
None
of these are perfect, but if I were to recommend one thing, find
a way to become involved in other peoples lives. Do
whatever it takes!
Dan
and Elaine came here after 23 years of ministry in Clark County in
southern Illinois. Both grew up in Michigan — Elaine (maiden name
Telfer) in Lansing and Dan from Owosso. They have been married 32
years and have three sons. Brian, 29, and his wife, Jody, recently
moved to Sarasota, Fla., with their daughters, Haley and
Emily; Aaron, 24, and wife Pandy live in Lincoln; Colin, 23,
single, also lives here in Lincoln. Bird serves part time as
pastoral care minister at Jefferson Street Christian Church.
Happy
Thanksgiving, Birds and all Logan County!
[Jan
Youngquist]
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City
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Street
plans, student programs on agenda
[NOV.
21, 2000] Several
topics relating to streets and improvements were addressed at Monday
evening's meeting of the Lincoln City Council.
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Mark
Mathon, city engineer, told council members that the improvements to
be made on Union Street will begin this spring.
"The
contractor decided to start this spring instead of now, due to the
cold weather," Mathon said.
"Improvements
to Gavin and State streets are being concluded, with some finishing
jobs to be done to yards," he added.
"Plans
to resurface Wyatt Avenue, including a small portion of Primm Road,
will be submitted to the Illinois Department of Transportation about
the middle of February for approval," Mathon stated.
The
council also voted to install stop signs on Seventh through 11th
streets where they intersect with North State Street, making North
State a through street.
Rich
Ludolph, chief of police, and Rich Montcalm, community liaison
officer, presented tokens of appreciation to Northwest,
Central
and Washington-Monroe schools for their assistance when Officer
Montcalm recently presented a "violence prevention"
program to the students.
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Montcalm
is currently presenting a program called the "Frilly
and Miller Show" to
students in area schools. The program is designed to instill in
students the importance of choices, respect and responsibility and
utilizes teacher participation in the presentation. Approximately
800 to 900 students have seen the program locally.
Both
Ludolph and Montcalm also expressed their appreciation to Mayor Joan
Ritter for making it possible for the programs to be presented.
Ludolph
also reported to the council that four students had been funded to
attend a meeting of the Drug Education Alliance on Monday and
Tuesday. The meeting consisted of 1,700 students and adults and
addressed the Teens Out Teaching Success (TOTS) program.
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The
council also voted to hire Darren Coffee as fireman to replace Tom
Cecil who has retired. Coffee is next on the list of eligible
applicants and will begin employment on Dec 1.
In
other business, the council voted to accept the high bids on older
equipment that was being eliminated and also to accept bids for a
new 1-ton truck that would be purchased for the sewage treatment
plant.
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Parades
come to Mason City on Dec. 3
[NOV.
21, 2000] Yes,
Mason City will be the place to enjoy the Christmas spirit.
Sunday evening Dec. 3, the annual Parade of Lights will again twine
its way through the streets of town. Many entries are expected
to be all aglow as they walk, ride and bike along the parade
route.
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Following
the parade the public is invited to make their way to the Civic
Center for special treats.
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A
new event, Parade of Trees, will be aglow throughout the Museum and
the Civic Center. Santa has been invited to pop in and visit
with the children if his schedule allows. The public will have
a chance to vote for their favorite decorated theme tree among the
eight entries on exhibit in the museum. The trees are being
sponsored by the Women's Club, Mike's Pizza, the Mason City
Historical Society, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the C.
L. U. B., Boy and Girl Scouts, and the city clerk’s office.
There
will be eight additional trees decorated in and throughout the Civic
Center. These trees will not receive a vote but will serve a
very good purpose. As a service project the Brownies Mitten
Tree will afford warm gloves, hats and scarves for underprivileged
folks.
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Added
to that will be trees decorated and given away to homes that would
otherwise go without a tree this year. Sponsors signing up for
these trees to date include Mason City Nursing Home, Mason City
Police, Mason City Pharmacy, Little Cougars, Dr. Marion Ring, the
Dr. Means family, plus Johnson Hardware and McEntire Appliance
Center.
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The
Parade of Trees will add a lot of Christmas cheer to the streets of
downtown Mason City and many worthy homes. The Parade of
Lights has become an enjoyable and eagerly awaited festival time for
Mason City. Mark your calendar for Dec. 3 in downtown Mason
City.
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Notice
of Open Burn Code released
by Fire Department
Open Burning
code for the City of Lincoln
BOCA National
Fire Prevention Code 1996 Chapter 4 City Code Book Fire Regulations Chapter 3
BOCA
F-403.4.3 OPEN
BURNING PROHIBITED: The code official shall prohibit open burning that will
be offensive or objectionable due to smoke or odor emissions when atmospheric
conditions or local circumstances make such fires hazardous. The code official
shall order the extinguishments, by the land owner or the fire department, of
any open burning that creates or adds to a hazardous or objectionable situation.
F-403.5
LOCATION OF OPEN BURNING: Shall not be less than 50 feet from any structure.
F-403.7
ATTENDANCE: Any open burning shall be constantly attended until the fire is
extinguished. A water supply such as buckets of water or a connected and charged
garden hose shall be available for immediate utilization.
CITY CODE BOOK
Chapter 3 Fire regulations
5-3-2 FIRE ON
PAVEMENTS: Fires are not allowed on blacktop streets, alleys or concrete
sidewalks ($25 fine)
5-3-4 BURNING
IN THE CITY: E-1 recreational fires shall contact the Lincoln Fire
Department and notify them of the date and time of the wiener roast. No garbage
shall be burned and burning must be consistent with other laws.
E-2: From
October 2 through May 31 between 7:00 A.M . and 5: 00 P.M. residents are
allowed to burn landscape waste only. (Leaves, trees, tree trimmings, branches,
stumps, brush, weeds, grass, grass and yard trimmings only)
Fines for
violations of the following codes are a minimum of $15 issued by fire crews
handling complaints and illegal fires.
Persons
complaining about fires must sign a complaint with the Fire Department before
extinguishments of legal fires is carried out. No fines will be issued to
persons burning with in the boundaries of the code. The persons burning will be
advised of the signed complaint and asked to extinguish the fire or the Fire
Department will extinguish the fire.
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Landfill
to be open extended hours for leaf disposal
[OCT.
11, 2000]
Beginning
Monday, Oct. 16, the Lincoln City Landfill will be open extended hours to allow
residents to dispose of leaves and yard waste, according to Donnie Osborne,
street superintendent. The landfill will open at 8 a.m. and remain open until 4
p.m. seven days a week, probably until mid-December, he said. Residents may
bring in leaves any way they like —
in bags, boxes or pickup trucks —
but they must take the leaves out of the containers and take the containers back
home with them.
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Public
notice
Filing dates for
nomination petitions for city offices
[OCT.
10, 2000]
The
office of the city clerk in Lincoln will be open for filing petitions for
nomination for the Feb. 27, 2001, consolidated primary election, with petitions
accepted from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the following dates: Dec. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
and 18.
Petitions
will be accepted for the following city offices:
- Mayor
- City treasurer
- City clerk
- Alderman Ward 1
- Alderman Ward 2
- Alderman Ward 3
- Alderman Ward 4
-
Alderman
Ward 5
No
petitions will be accepted before 9 a.m. or after 5 p.m.
[Juanita
Josserand, city clerk]
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