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[January 05, 2019]
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December 17
IGA employees loaded one vehicle
after the next of a long line on Saturday morning. It was the annual
Christmas Food Basket give-away delivery sponsored by the Lincoln
Emblem Club.
Photo by Jan Youngquist |
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December 18
On Monday evening the Lincoln City
Council by unanimous vote approved new residential sewer rates to
take effect January 1, 2019. The rate change is being done in order
to secure the appropriate amount of funding for the city's Long Term
Control Plan improvements at the waste treatment plant and
throughout the town. The plan is mandated by the Illinois EPA, but
comes with no state or federal funding, so the city must increase
sewerage rates to cover the more than $20 million overall costs.
The rates will be based on actual water consumption from the October
through December billing cycles. The actual usage of the three
months will be averaged, then become the flat rate for the customer
through the 2019 calendar year.
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December 20
This past weekend, Lincoln College
played host to the first All-State Junior High Girls Tournament. The
All-State Junior High Classic included approximately 140 girls
competing on teams that went head to head in competition all day on
Sunday with the final results being one championship team.
The Championship team for 2018 was the Central Team that was made up
of players from West Lincoln-Broadwell, Mount Pulaski, Pana,
Winchester, and Piper City. The team coach was Coach Kari Froebe of
West Lincoln-Broadwell.
Teena Lowery |
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December 21
On Thursday, Justice Rita B. Garman
and the Illinois Supreme Court announced that Logan County State's
Attorney Jonathan Wright will be filling the seat as resident
Circuit Judge in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit beginning January
7th. Wright will complete a two-year term from January 2019 through
December 7th, 2020, at which time the seat will be filled according
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December 26
The Lincoln Logan Food Pantry
received several boxes of non-perishable food items from the West
Lincoln-Broadwell School Beta Club members. The Beta Club also
donated two boxes of children's books to First United Methodist
Church "Kids Club Daycare."
Thank you to the Beta Club for the food and book donations and
supporting our mission to serve others in our community.
Rick Releford
Lincoln/Logan County Food Pantry
In November and December, Logan
Correctional Center employees raised $2,000 cash through raffles and
donations and over 200 gifts that were donated to the Toys for Tots
campaign of Logan County. Lieutenant Raymon Gonzales spearheaded
this year's Toys for Tots Drive at Logan Correctional Center. Lt.
Gonzales is a veteran of the United States Marine Corp.
Pictured front row left to right: Correctional Officer Dorsey, Staff
Assistant Shannon Evans, Correctional Officer Valsquez and Lt.
Gonzales. In the back row is Correctional Officer Ott on the far
left with Sergeant Ward on the far right. In the middle of the back
row are six correctional trainees at Logan County Correctional
Center.
Photo by Heidi Browne |
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December 27
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On Thursday afternoon Mother Nature
delivered a hard blow to the city of Lincoln. High winds throughout
the town caused some issues, most of them minor but still an
inconvenience. Tree damage, trash cans blowing away, power outages
to 330 locations in Lincoln and other such things kept city crews,
Ameren Illinois and others busy.
An example of such turbulence was found on the north side of town,
near the bottle factory when this tree fell partially blocking the
street. Crews were out hustling to get it cleaned up quickly.
In another part of town, the most disturbing damage may have been
that done at the Mill on Route 66 Museum. One of the four sails of
the windmill on the front of the building came toppling down.
The sail was quickly located close by and taken inside until it can
be repaired and returned to its proper location.
Photos by Roy Logan and Geoff Ladd |
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