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Last week they received $60,000 from the Illinois Department of
Public Health, Office of Women's Health. The funds were gathered by
the Illinois Lottery Ticket for the Cure game and are to use in the
promotion of breast and cervical cancer awareness and the programs
that are available.
The Logan County Health Department serves as a 10-county center
for breast and cervical cancer awareness and testing.
The health department also received a national health officials
grant for $10,000. These funds will be used to train a medical
reserve corps for an emergency response in Logan County. The goal
that has been set is to be able to vaccinate or medicate everyone in
the county within 48 hours.
Activity will be picking up for the county's department of
environmental health. Hilliard said that they were notified that the
Illinois Department of Public Health would no longer be performing
the food inspections in long-term care facilities. We will be
working with the six nursing homes in Logan County on their
inspections and compliance, Hilliard said. These are considered
high-risk, and inspections will take place three times a year, he
said.
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 The Logan County Highway Department hopes to attract some college
students this summer with an increase in wages. County highway
engineer Bret Aukamp was sorry to see a couple of students decide
not to work there last summer when Logan County's wages did not
stack up.
Wages at Logan County were set at $7.50.
The Illinois Department of Transportation was paying $9.35 for
college students, $11.85 for engineering students.
Aukamp requested to raise the county wage to $9 for college
students, $10 for engineering students, with a 50-cent increase each
year for four years.
He said that the money is available to do this, beginning this
summer, and would continue to be available in future years, as most
of the projects that the college students work on are paid for
through motor fuel tax funds.
College students assist the department by doing some of the extra
work that comes with summer, such as mowing and helping fill in for
vacations. Engineering students do a variety of work, such as
surveying, construction inspections and might help with GIS
locations this year, Aukamp said.
[Jan
Youngquist]
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