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Senior Expo caters to seniors
By julie
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Vol. 7 No. 24
GFWC Advocates
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PEKIN — Area seniors are invited to
attend the Tazewell
County Senior Expo
hosted by Times News
Group.
The event will be on
Oct. 26 from 9 a.m.
until noon at the Miller
Senior Citizens Center
located at 551 S. 14th
St. Admission is free.
Mike Mehl, sales
manager at Pekin Daily
Times and event organizer, said the event is
a chance for seniors to
browse different vendors and ask questions.
“It’s a good time for
seniors to socialize and
talk with local vendors,”
he said.
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To raise awareness
for General Federation of Women’s Club’s
child advocacy efforts,
GFWC has declared the
fourth week in October
as GFWC Advocates for
Children Week. GFWC
state federations, clubs,
and members have
chosen to be Advocates
for Children to create
a world where children
are respected, loved, and
provided the opportunity
to grow up safe, healthy,
and educated. This is accomplished through our
efforts to provide effective funding and services, to represent or give a
voice to a cause/concern,
and to improve the quality of life for children.
During GFWC Advocates for Children’s
Week, the GFWC Illinois
Metamora-Germantown
Hills Junior Woman’s
Club will be promoting “GFWC Advocates
for Children Week” by
having the Metamora
and Germantown Hills
Village Presidents sign
proclamations declaring
Oct. 23-29 as “GFWC
Advocates for Children
Week.”
The Metamora-Germantown Hills Junior
Woman’s Club will be
promoting one of GFWC
Partnerships the St. Jude
Children’s Research
Hospital. They will be
providing items from
the St. Jude Clinic Wish
List for children that are
patients at St. Jude Children’s Hospital in Peoria
for their patients.
The events, which are
sponsored by the GFWC
Illinois MetamoraGermantown Hills
Junior Woman’s Club
during Oct. 23-29, are
a testimony to community partnerships and a
growing determination
to improve the quality of
life for children.
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Area Events
munity pain management seminar
entitled “Control Your
Pain” on Oct. 27 from
5:30-7 p.m. at Pekin
Hospital (600 S. 13th St.,
Pekin). The free event
will feature a special
presentation from
Justin Minyard, a first
responder at the 9-11
Pentagon attacks who
has been dealing with
debilitating chronic pain
for many years. Dr. Arek
Grochowski, medical
director of Pekin Pain
Management Center,
will be in attendance
to answer questions
about treatment and
care options. While there
is no charge to attend
the “Control Your Pain”
event, registration is
required. To register for
the seminar, please call
877-472-4650 or visit
cypevents.com/1137.
Food Market and
Craft Sale by the
Morton United Methodist Church, Nov. 12 from
9 a.m.-2 p.m. Public is
welcome and encouraged to come join the fun
and start their holiday
shopping. Come shop
for fine quality, handcrafted items, fall and
Christmas décor, tomato
sauce, jams, jelly, cheese
balls, frozen casseroles,
breads, pies, candies,
knives, nuts, ornaments,
home accents, yard art,
and more. Proceeds of
this sale benefit local and
international missions.
Brunch will be served
from 9-11 a.m. and lunch
from 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Morton United Methodist
Church is located at 420
N. Tennessee, Morton
(on Route 150 just east
of the soccer field). Cash,
checks or credit/debit
cards will be accepted.
For more information call
266-7174.
Morton Community
Chorus will begin
rehearsals for
Handel's MESSIAH
on Monday evenings
beginning Oct. 3-Nov. 14,
6:30-8:30 p.m. at Grace
Church in Morton (Tennessee Ave & Jefferson
St.). Qualified singers
are invited to participate.
Dress rehearsal is Nov.
19, 9:30 a.m.-noon; the
performance is Nov. 20
at 3 p.m. Send questions
to [email protected];
[email protected]; or
[email protected].
GFWC Illinois
Metamora-Germantown Hills Junior
Woman’s Club,
Education Department, sponsoring
Halloween Story
Hour, on Oct. 31 for preschool children ages 3-5.
Story hours will be held
at the Metamora Public
Library, from 11 a.m.noon. There will be stories, a craft, snack and
trick or treating. Please
have your child dress up
in their costume. They
will be trick-or-treating
to some of the local businesses on the Metamora
Square.
There are limited spaces
available so sign up at
the library. If you have
any questions, contact
Melissa Peters at 7121540.
TOTES FOR TA-TAS
will be hosting its 3rd
annual event on Saturday, Nov. 5, at Burroughs
Farms, 25356 Cooper
Road, Morton. This event
features a silent and live
auction of many new
and gently loved purses,
totes, wallets, etc., and
will benefit Illinois CancerCare Foundation’s
Breast Cancer Research
Fund this year. Doors will
open at 4 p.m. for the
silent auction, and the
live auction will begin
at 6:15 p.m. Heavy hors
d’oeuvres will be served
throughout the evening,
along with a cash bar.
Tickets are $20 in advance or $25 at the door.
They can be purchased
at the Morton Tourism
Office, 200 S. First Street
in Morton, or by contacting Sharyl at 657-0992
or totesfortatasmorton@
gmail.com.
For more info, visit www.
totesforta-tas.com or on
Facebook page at www.
facebook.com/totesfortatasmorton/
Fon du Lac Farm
Park Annual Witches Walk “Not so
Scary” Illuminated
Halloween Walk for
the little ones, 6-8 p.m.
Fridays & Saturdays, Oct.
21, 22, 28 & 29 at Fon du
Lac Farm Park, 305 Neumann Drive, East Peoria.
Cost: $2.50 ages 1-15
(under 1 year of age is
free) and $3 adult (all
ages). Express tickets are
available. For more information call 699-3923.
www.fondulacpark.com
Pekin Pain Management Center and
Boston Scientific
are hosting a com-
Prairieland Country Opry features a
full band, along with two
ington Library are
preparing for the fall
book sale. Donations of
books and AV items in
good condition may be
brought to the main library (Five Points) during
open hours through Oct.
15. Due to space limitations, no encyclopedias,
used texts, magazines
or VHS tapes. The sale
will start with a preview
evening from 5-7 p.m.
on Oct. 21. This first
choice of items is open
free to FOWL members
(memberships can be
arranged at the door)
or for a $5 entrance for
non-members. For more
information, call 4447621 or the library at
444-2241.
3 things to do
WASHINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY “An
Evening with Tim Pletkovich” Oct. 24, 7 p.m.,
Washington Presbyterian
Church. Come hear a
presentation by Tim
Pletkovich, the author of
“Sons of the Civil War in
WWII”.
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Wildlife Scary Park
opens Oct. 21-23 and Oct.
28-30 at Wildlife Prairie Park.
Includes a haunted train, trek
through the Trick-or-treat
Trail, karaoke, hayrack ride and more.
Hours are 5-10 p.m. Fridays, 2-10 p.m.
Saturdays and 2-8 p.m. Sundays.
Admission is $8 for members and
$10 for non-members. Go to wildlifeprairiepark.org.
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Spider Hill haunted
attractions: Open
every Friday and Saturday in
October. Ticket sales start at
6 p.m., attractions open at 7
award winning entertainers: Steve Hargis and
Stephanie Foster. Great
variety of country music,
a lot of classic country,
70s/80s/90s. Shows
are every 2nd Friday of
the month. Doors open
at 6:15 p.m., show at 7
p.m. Seating is limited
at Knights of Columbus
Hall, Washington. Admission: $10, Kids 8 and
under free. Pay at the
door. Featuring classic
country music, a little
comedy, 50/50 raffle,
Butch's pizza, concessions and drinks available for purchase only.
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Massacre Mansion and Trail of Terror, $10 each; Zombie invasion, $15;
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PILL DISPOSAL On Oct.
22, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
the Morton Police Department and the Drug
Enforcement Administration (DEA) will give the
public its 12th opportunity in six years to prevent
pill abuse and theft by
ridding their homes of
potentially dangerous
expired, unused, and
unwanted prescription
drugs. Bring your pills for
disposal to the Morton
Police Department at
375 W. Birchwood St.,
Morton Illinois. Please
note liquids or needles
or sharps cannot be
accepted, only pills or
patches. The service is
free and anonymous, no
questions asked.
Eats & Drinks of
the World 6-10 p.m.
Nov. 5 at Five Points
Washington. Raffles,
silent auction, music
(Cousin Eddie Band),
food and drinks. Benefitting the Dax Locke Foundation. Tickets are $20 in
advance for admission,
food and drink passport
book or $30 at the door.
Order tickets at www.
fivepointswashington.org
or 444-8600.
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Oct. 21-23 and Oct. 2830 Wildlife Prairie Park
will transform into Wildlife Scary Park! Guests
can ride the haunted
train, trek through the
extensive Trick-or-Treat
Trail, purchase Halloween
trinkets at the Bootique,
jam out with karaoke,
catch a lift on a hayrack,
meet Mike the Bison
and so much more!
New hours this year are
Fridays from 5-10 p.m.,
Saturdays from 2- 10
p.m. and Sundays from
2-8 p.m. Event admission
can be purchased at the
gate during the event or
advanced ticket sales will
be available online or at
Peoria Hy-Vee locations.
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Washington Historical Society
opens New Pictorial Exhibit of early
Washington Oct.
8-Nov. 19. Each Saturday
11 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Dement- Zinser Home 105
Zinser Place. The exhibit
is free and private tours
are available by calling,
444-4793.
Peoria Magicians
Assembly is presenting
"Halloween Magic Spooktacular," featuring spooky
magic, comedy Halloween
skits and monster characters. Event
is at 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Oct. 22 at
the Expo Gardens Opera House, 1601
W. Northmoor Road. Matinee tickets
are $5 for all ages and evening show
tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for
kids 12 and under.
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Dement-Zinser and
Dr’s Museum tours
Saturday’s 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Private tours are also
available by calling 309444-4793. Take a step
back into Washington’s
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How low
can we go?
The outcome of the
presidential election
on Nov. 8 will likely
have an impact on the
United States Supreme
Court for decades. The
death of Antonin Scalia
leaves the court equally
divided on ideological
lines. Two justices, Ruth
Bader Ginsburg and Anthony Kennedy are 83
and 80, respectively.
Judicial appointments
ought to have emerged
as a leading campaign
issue. The next president, through the nomination process, can have
a huge impact on campaign financing, abortion, health care and the
future of criminal justice
reform. Yet the nomination of justices has
generated little interest,
even though voters have
had a firsthand look at
the potential battles on
the horizon — the GOP
senate’s refusal to move
on President Obama’s
nomination of Merrick
B. Garland to replace
Scalia.
It is not that voters
are only ignoring the
importance and impact
of the high court, this
campaign has turned
on its head everything
we’ve come to expect
in a race for the White
House. Fifty years ago,
Richard Nixon was maligned by the media for
perspiring during his
debate with John F.
Kennedy. George H.W.
Bush was ridiculed for
looking at his watch and
Al Gore was slammed
for rolling his eyes when
his opponent George W.
Bush tried to make a
point.
Flash for ward to
Sunday night, Donald
Trump turned his back
to the camera; stalked
his opponent around
the debate stage; and
went so far as to call
Hillary Clinton the devil
and threatened, as president, to put her in jail.
Politics has, at times,
over the centuries been
rough and tumble. Lest
we forget, Vice-President Aaron Burr murdered former Secretary
of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton; Riots
marred the 1896 election between William
McKinley and William
Jennings Bryan and the
1968 race between Richard Nixon and Hubert
Humphrey; not to mention Andrew Johnson’s
impeachment after the
Civil War; Nixon’s resignation and Bill Clinton’s
impeachment and senate trial.
Setting aside the fact
that Trump’s threat to
investigate Clinton, if
elected, is the stuff of
dictators and despots;
can he really order his
attorney general to in-
Matthew
Mangino
GateHouse
columnist
vestigate Clinton? Well
if his AG is Chris Christie probably, anyone else
unlikely.
As a result of Watergate, Congress passed
the Ethics in Government Act (EGA) which
for the first time defined
procedures for the appointment of a special
prosecutor. Specifically,
the Act provides that
upon receiving allegations relating to specifically enumerated officials, the AG is required
to conduct a preliminary investigation. If
the preliminary investigation suggested that
further investigation is
warranted, the AG is
required to petition a
three-judge panel established by the statute
known as the “Special
Division,” to appoint an
independent counsel.
According to the
Washington Post, the
EGA came about as a
result of Nixon’s “Saturday Night Massacre.” In
1973, Nixon fired Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. Attorney General Elliot L.
Richardson and Deputy
Attorney General William D. Ruckelshaus
resigned after refusing
to fire Cox. Finally, the
solicitor general, and
later Supreme Court
nominee, Robert Bork
fired Cox. Nixon abolished the office of the
special prosecutor and
Congress passed the
EGA.
Like Nixon, Trump
touts himself as the “law
and order” candidate.
T he unprecedented
threat to jail his opponent, his scurrilous
boast of sexually assaulting women and his vow
to take this campaign to
even lower depths will
do nothing to advance
either law or order.
Trump, so fond of invoking the plight of the
inner city when talking about crime and
race, would do well to
acknowledge that this
campaign has done for
politics in America what
crack-cocaine did for
the inner city.
— Matthew T. Mangino is of counsel with
Luxenberg, Garbett,
Kelly & George P.C. His
book, “The Executioner’s
Toll, 2010,” was recently
released by McFarland
Publishing. You can
reach him at mattmangino.com and follow him
on Twitter at @MatthewTMangino.
‘Liar, liar, Pence on fire’
GOP vice president nominee Mike Pence could become a heartbeat from the
presidency — or one outlandish tweet or outrageous
recording from the top of
the ticket. So it’s worth
considering him, even as
he tries to distance himself
from his running mate.
Other Republican office-holders are criticizing
Trump or asking him to
withdraw from the race.
(One estimate is that 33
House Members and 17
Senators have publicly rejected Trump, meaning that
more than 200 House Republicans and 37 Senators
are sticking with him.) And
though Pence is under some
pressure to quit — especially after Trump during
the last debate conceded he
hadn’t talked with Pence
and disagreed with his position on Syria — Republicans
including U.S. Sens. Ron
Portman (Ohio) and Mike
Crapo (Idaho) want Pence
to replace Trump as their
nominee.
Meanwhile, Pence is being
held up as more reasonable
than Trump (which isn’t difficult). But Pence may just
be a smoother politician.
Some history: Before becoming Indiana’s governor
in 2012, Pence started his
political career by losing a
1988 race for Congress, and
then two years later losing
again (while using campaign
funds for personal expenses
— which wasn’t yet against
the law that eventually sent
U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson
Jr. to prison). After a fiveyear stint as a right-wing
broadcaster on talk radio
Bill Knight
GateHouse
columnist
and morning TV, he
won a Congressional seat in
2000. In a 12-year career as
a Congressman, Pence was a
Tea Partier before there was
one, authoring 90 bills —
none of which passed.
“His interest was more
in preventing things from
happening — spending,
taxing, expanding liberal
social policy,” reported New
York Times journalist Carl
Hulse.
Pence supported invading Iraq War, de-funding
Planned Parenthood, and
legalizing discrimination of
prejudiced people using a
religious justification, and
he opposed the rescue of
the auto industry, raising
the minimum wage, and addressing climate change.
And he’s dishonest, based
on his remarks from the vice
presidential debate. Nonpartisan fact-checkers verified Pence’s following lies
in the Oct. 4 debate with
U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (DVirginia), Clinton’s running
mate. Pence said …
1. it was “nonsense” that
Trump didn’t know Russia had already invaded
Ukraine/Crimea. (Trump
showed that on ABC-TV in
August);
2. Trump didn’t break his
2014 promise to release his
tax returns. (Trump said,
“If I decide to run for office,
I'll produce my tax returns,
absolutely.”);
3. it was “nonsense” that
Trump proposed a “deportation force.” (Trump proposed that in Phoenix in
August);
4. Trump wouldn’t shirk
NATO responsibilities.
(Trump in July said he’d
fulfill the U.S. commitment
to NATO allies “if they fulfill
their [financial] obligations
to us.”);
5. it was “absolutely false”
that Trump advocates banning Muslims from entering
the United States. (Trump
on Dec. 7, 2015, called for
“eliminating Muslim immigration … a total and
complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United
States.”);
6. Trump didn’t praise
Russian dictator Vladimir
Putin. (At NBC’s Commander-in-Chief forum
Sept. 7, Trump said Putin’s
“been a leader far more than
our president has been a
leader.”);
7. Clinton initiated a deal
paying $150 billion to Iran
(when Secretary of State
John Kerry oversaw the
agreement that returned
Iran’s own money seized as
part of international sanctions);
8. “Donald Trump and I
would never support legislation that punished women
who made the heartbreaking choice to end a pregnancy.” (Trump told MSNBC’s
Chris Mathews in March,
“There has to be some form
of punishment.”);
9. accused Clinton of
proposing “open borders.”
(Actually, she advocates for
immigration reform while
strengthening borders, instituting “targeted and effective” enforcement, and
reporting those “who pose a
threat to public safety.”);
10. “We have the smallest
Navy since 1916” (a whacky
comparison of today’s aircraft carriers and nuclearpowered warships to gunboats and small vessels of a
century ago);
11. the Clinton Foundation spent “less than 10
cents on the dollar [on]
charitable causes. (The
nonpartisan American Institute of Philanthropy says
the foundation spend 88
percent of its expenditures
on programs);
12. Trump “never said
that” more countries should
have nuclear weapons (although he did, to the New
York Times in March.).
Maybe Pence forgot that
records exist, or was covering Trump’s butt — or his
own, looking to 2020.
“Pence’s most shameless
answers imagine a world
where the voters who do
not intend to vote Clinton will begin to think like
Trump voters. Not just to
vote for Trump — to admire his business and ignore his problems the way
that Trump’s base and latedeciding Republicans have
decided to,” said David Weigel in the Washington Post.
“Pence tried to convert more
voters into amnesiacs.”
— Contact Bill at Bill.
[email protected]; his
twice-weekly columns are
archived at billknightcolumn.blogspot.com
OTHER VOICES
Please do not vote
in uncontested
legislative races
Such is the acrimonious
state of democracy, American-style, that in a way
we've been dreading this
day that begins our rollout
of endorsements.
Over the next two weeks,
we'll be making known our
preferences, where we have
them, from the top of the
ballot — U.S. president, Senate, House — through an Illinois comptroller's contest
on the way to competitions
for county offices and seats
on the circuit bench. Finally,
we'll have our say on a statewide constitutional question about transportation
funding and several local
tax increase referendums.
What we will not have,
unfortunately, is the opportunity to provide direction
on a state constitutional
amendment to allow an independent group to draw
the political maps for the
Legislature every 10 years,
taking it out of the selfserving politicians' hands
and thereby, fingers crossed,
numbering the days of some
of the most competitionkilling gerrymandering in
America, one of the worst
denials of democracy in
America, and one of the
least competent, most corrupt legislatures in America.
We viewed it as Illinois' last,
best hope to save itself and
rise from the nation's ash
heap.
Alas, the Illinois Supreme
Court, with a 4-3 Democratic majority, was not of
like mind, declaring the citizen-initiated effort unconstitutional and depriving it
of a place on the ballot.
That leads us to make
something of an unusual
— for us, unprecedented —
request.
Generally, we very much
encourage exercising one of
the most cherished rights
we have: the right to vote, to
have some input regarding
this most noble American
experiment.
Now we ask voters to sit
out all uncontested legislative races — many already
do, of course — as a collective statement of protest,
on the principle that you
cannot, in good conscience,
participate in the sham of a
democracy that Illinois has
become.
Believe it or not, more
than 60 percent of all legislative races in Illinois — you
read that correctly — have
but one name on the ballot. There is not one race in
the Illinois House and Senate districts that serve the
Peoria area that gives local
voters a choice.
If you're an immediate
family member and feel an
obligation, fine, but otherwise please do not vote for
state Rep. Jehan GordonBooth (D) of Peoria for the
92nd House seat, for Ryan
Spain (R) of Peoria for 73rd
House, for Rep. Michael
Unes (R) of East Peoria for
91st House, for Rep. Keith
Sommer (R) of Morton for
88th House, for Sen. David
Koehler (D) of Peoria for the
46th Senate seat, for Sen.
Chuck Weaver (R) of Peoria
for 37th Senate, or for Bill
Brady (R) of Bloomington
for 44th Senate.
Nothing personal or
partisan. We've just had
enough. This is one way to
express our disgust. May
they all receive record-low
vote totals.
We would add that were
there any competition in
these races and were we
endorsing, no Democrat
who intended to cast a
vote for Michael Madigan
for speaker of the House
would get our support. No
one is more responsible for
the sorry, bottom-feeding,
laughingstock of a state
that Illinois has become.
No one has stood more in
the way of reform, including redistricting reform. It
is inexcusable. As inexcusable are those Democrats
who have refused to hold
him accountable for it, to
the undeniable detriment of
their own constituents.
Republicans in Illinois
own less of the blame but
too many have given little
more than lip service to this
maps matter. If they're uncontested, they're benefiting
from this broken system,
too. Madigan would have
stopped them, but they
should have tried harder to
stand up for what's right, to
make a statement on behalf
of better government in Illinois.
It's turn out the lights on
Illinois until voters make
their own legislators truly
feel their frustration. Let's
start.
—Peoria Journal Star
www.WoodfordTimes.com
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The East Peoria
Rotary Club will
meet on Tuesday, Oct.
25, at 7:15 a.m. at the
Embassy Suites in
East Peoria. The guest
speaker will be Becky
Rossman, CEO and
President of Neighborhood House. She will
be speaking about its
120 years of operations, its services and
its upcoming Christmas programs. Call
566-9986 for more
information.
NAMI Mental Illness Support
Group Meetings
Oct. 20, 7-8:30 p.m.
Illinois Central College
(ICC) North Campus,
5407 N. University
St., Peoria. Connections — for individuals
diagnosed with mental
health conditions, Poplar Hall Rm. 131. Family
— for family members
of those above, Poplar
Hall Rm. 132.
The Town & Country Gardeners will
host Garden Lecture
Speaker Nancy Carroll on "Fall Splendor"
on Oct. 25 at 7 p.m. It
will be held at 5 Points
conference room at
360 N. Wilmore Road
in Washington. There is
no charge.
CHURCH
East Peoria First
United Methodist
Women's - BAZAAR
Nov. 5 (2016) 8 a.m.3 p.m., East Peoria
First United Methodist
Church, 154 E. Washington St., East Peoria.
(309-699-5417).
CRAFT AND VENDOR
SALE Lunch also available: Chili, pulled pork,
and baked potatoes
and toppings. Oct. 22,
9 a.m.-2 p.m. Glad Tidings Assembly of God
Church, 2201 E. Washington St., East Peoria,
IL 61611. For more info
call Libby at: 258-3105.
Annual Bazaar
Christ Church, Germantown Hills on
Saturday, Nov. 5, 9
a.m.-2 p.m. The Bazaar
features “Bountiful
Baskets” raffles which
are assorted theme
gift baskets. There will
be approximately 25
baskets to be raffled.
Additional vendors
also will be present
which include Tastefully Simple, Norwex,
Scentsy, Tupperware and handmade
wreaths by Terri.
Lunch and homemade
baked items will be
available. Come join
us Saturday, Nov. 5,
2016. Christ Church is
located at 110 Holland
Road, Germantown
Hills, next to the State
Farm office. Church
phone number is 3834361.
Library
East Peoria
Fondulac District Library, 400 S. Richland
St.
Out of the Box
Book Club The Out
of the Box Book Club
meets on the third
Thursday of the month
at various locations in
East Peoria to discuss
books of all types, by a
variety of authors. The
next meeting takes
place at Firehouse
Pizza, 240 S. Main St.,
at 6 p.m. on Oct. 19,
where we will discuss
"A Head Full of Ghosts"
by Paul Tremblay. For
more information call
699-3917, ext. 2251.
Grown Up Video
Game Nights While
the library’s board
games are available for
all ages at any time,
the PlayStations (3 &
4!) and Steam Station
video gaming are usually reserved for teens
ages 14 through 19.
Not on Grown Up Video
Game Nights, though!
Gamers age 20 and
older are invited to get
their game on starting at 5 p.m., Oct. 20.
Bring your library card
or photo ID, and check
in at the second floor
Information Desk to
get started. For more
information, call 6993917, ext. 2251.
Create A Web If you
are in grades K-8, skitter over to the library
between 11 a.m. and 4
p.m. on Oct. 21, to create a spider web with
yarn and paper plates
— a perfect decoration for the season! For
more information, call
699-3917, ext. 1291.
Overdrive Big Library Read Participate in an eBook club
by reading Overdrive’s
featured novel. Book
will be available for
download without wait
time Oct. 13-27 from
Alliance Digital Media
Library. Visit www.
fondulaclibrary.org or
www.biglibraryread.
com for additional information.
Loom Beading
Workshop Join
Amanda Shaffer at 2
p.m. on Oct. 29 for a
loom beading workshop, and make a
bracelet with supplies
provided by the library.
Registration closes
Oct. 27. Call 699-3917,
ext. 2251 or visit www.
fondulaclibrary.org for
more information or to
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Halloween Party
Kids in grades PreK-5
are invited to a Halloween Party at 2:30 p.m.
on Oct. 29. Be sure to
wear your costume for
this spine-tingling celebration. Enjoy games
such as Mummy Wrap,
Pin the Wart on the
Witch, and Monster
Bean Bag Toss. For
more information, call
699-3917, ext. 1291.
Board Meeting
Fondulac District Library’s Board of Trustees will meet in regular
session at 6 p.m. on
Monday, Oct. 31, at
400 Richland St.
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excited about the democratic process and
politics. Participants
will receive a brief introduction to the candidates and cast their
votes. Every child that
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more information, call
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find exactly what you
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at 3 p.m. on Nov. 2.
Basic keyboarding
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Watch for deer on area roads
By Julie
Schimmelpfennig
TimesNewspapers
PEKIN — It’s that time
of year to be looking out
for deer on the road.
Starting in late October
through early December is
when drivers need to be
aware of where deer typically are in order to avoid
deer-vehicle accidents.
Paul Shelton, Forest
Wildlife Program manager
at the Illinois Department
of Natural Resources, urges drivers to pay attention
to places with trees and
fields along a roadway
where deer might be.
“As the rut season approaches, deer might
be by themselves,
but they might
not. Expect
the unexpected.
B e
prepared.
Be aware
of where you
have seen deer in
the past,” Shelton
said.
The number of accidents increase steadily in
October and November.
Then, the number of accidents drops due to hunting season.
“What we see is, later
this month, numbers
(of collisions) increase,”
said Shelton. “Then the
numbers peak between
the 10th and 20th of November.”
The first firearm deer
season in Illinois runs
from Nov. 18-20. Shelton
said that hunters around
the state typically kill between 80,000 to 100,000
deer over that short period of time and after that
weekend, the number of
collisions decrease. That
does not mean drivers
should not be aware of
where deer typically cross
the road though.
Shelton said the number of collisions vary by
the time of day and day of
the week because deer are
more active with commuter traffic. He said weekday
mornings seem to be a
consistent popular time.
Shelton attributes it to
“does looking for places
to have their fawns but
usually the fawns from
last season are still with
them and the does are
trying to get them
to leave and be on
their own.”
The number of collisions
i
s
lowest in
August.
Shelton
said hundreds
of drivers are injured and there are
usually five or six fatalities involving cars or
trucks. He said the number of fatalities for those
on motorcycles is higher.
Over the past few years,
there have been “considerably fewer collisions”
than in previous years the
IDNR has observed.
There are several tips
Shelton has for drivers
this time of year should
they see a deer on or near
the road.
“The primary thing to do
is brake,” he said. “Brake,
but maintain control of
the vehicle. Losing control of the vehicle is much
more serious than hitting
the deer typically. If that
means hitting a deer at a
slower rate of speed then
that’s what happens. Deer
may react, they may not.
Swerving is not a good
idea. You might swerve
into another vehicle, off
the road into a tree or barrier, or you may swerve
the same direction as
the deer does and
then you directly
hit it.”
Pekin Police Public Infor-
mation Officer Mike
Eeten also
said slowing
down when seeing
deer is a good idea.
“Avoid slamming on
your brakes,” Eeten said.
“Try not to swerve because
you could swerve into another lane either head on
or into the lane next to
you.”
So far, this year in Pekin, as of Oct. 11, the total
number of crashes involving an animal, not limited
to deer, is 26. This year
and last year’s totals of
vehicle-animal accidents,
not limited to deer, are
33.
There are three “trouble
spots” in particular in Pekin for deer accidents.
Eeten said one is on
North 8th Street near
Lakeside Cemetery. The
second is on North Parkway Drive close to Henderson Funeral Home and
Crematory and the dog
training area. The third
is on Court Street around
Taco Bell. Deer come out
of the wooded areas on
Audubon Drive and cross
to the other side of Court
Street.
Slowing down helped
Teresa Mack of Pekin last
fall. She was driving to
dinner with her husband
just after dusk and as they
were going north on Ill.
Route 29 through North
Pekin and Marquette
Heights, she saw a doe
dart across the road.
Mack said she
slowed down,
afraid there
w e r e
more
deer
nearby.
“Out of
nowhere, I
heard a thump
against the driver’s
side front quarter
panel of my Jeep,” Mack
said. “A young deer that
still had spots had followed the doe across the
road and smashed right
into the side of my Jeep.
The Jeep survived with
minimal damage, but the
deer died. I never even
saw the deer hit my car
though. I just heard it and
knew immediately what
had happened.”
Erik Heuck, of Pekin,
was not so fortunate during his December 2009
accident. He said he was
driving through Banner
Marsh on Ill. Route 24
around 10 p.m. when a
deer ran right across the
road. Heuck did not have
time to react and slow
down. The accident resulted in roughly $2,000
in damage to the vehicle.
Heuck was not injured.
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EUREKA — The
University of Illinois
Extension would like to
congratulate Woodford
County Master Gardeners Barry Ankney, Karel
Kaufman and Karen
Kaufman-Dixon for
their 2016 Outstanding
State Master Gardener
awards. The Outstanding State Award was
established to honor the
best of Illinois Master
Gardeners. Only the
top 2 percent of Illinois
Master Gardeners win
this award. They must
exceed in leadership,
determination, positivity,
initiative and be highly
involved in the program.
Barry Ankney of
Washburn has been a
Woodford Master Gardener for only two years
and has already logged
over 600 hours of volunteer service.
Fellow Woodford
Master Gardener Mary
Niemi says, “Barry is the
driving force to restore
the hosta gardens at Illinois Central College that
are recognized by the
American Hosta Society.”
To add to the project,
Barry created a “Hosta
of the Year” garden and
a “Miniature Hosta” garden. Barry showed not
only great leadership in
organizing, informing
and recruiting other volunteers to work on this
project but also presents
several educational programs on the subject.
Karel Kaufman of El
Paso has volunteered
in the Master Gardener
program for the past five
years and has become
an integral part of the
group. She has led the
Master Gardener plant
sale for several years in a
row, was instrumental in
bringing programming
to the El Paso Library
and this past year, has
begun to create a butterfly garden/pollinator
pocket for the library
and school to use as an
outdoor classroom. Karel
always plays a role in
educational events, from
the Gardener’s Gathering and third grade 4-H
Plant Science programs
to the 4-H Show judging
and horticulture booth.
Karel’s sister, Karen
Kaufman-Dixon of El
Paso, co-chaired many
of these volunteer activities in El Paso and also
the Woodford Master
Gardener plant sale.
Karen also contributes
to the Germantown Hills
Middle School Garden
and the monthly Eureka
information booth. She
has judged floriculture for the Woodford
County 4-H Show for
the past five years and
participated in 4-H day
camps. These two siblings lead the University
of Illinois Extension to
ask, “Do you have any
more sisters?” Karel and
Karen bring an amazing
amount of positivity to
the group.
The next time you are
at the Illinois Central
College Hosta Garden
or the El Paso Library
pollinator pocket, please
be sure to thank these
three outstanding Master Gardeners for their
contributions to our
community.
Motorized bicycle safety an issue for everyone on the road
By michael smothers
TimesNewspapers
PEKIN — A teen slaps
a gas motor he buys online, or takes from an old
lawn mower, onto his basic bike’s frame, roars the
contraption to life and
races down his neighborhood’s streets and sidewalks.
“We’ve started getting
a lot of complaints about
them,” said Mike Eeten,
Pekin Police Department’s public information officer.
“They’re the bane of a
cyclist’s existence” and
dangerous to all around,
including themselves,
said bicycle enthusiast
Tim Beeney of Peoria.
A businessman mixes
a new hobby into his
life by affixing a batterypowered motor kit onto
his bike, donning a helmet and turning his daily
commute into a lawabiding, 20-mph glide.
“We’re selling wheels
all day long to those
guys; they’re wearing
them out,” said Michael
Weis, manager of Little
Ades Bicycle Shop in
Pekin.
In both scenarios, motorized bikes are coming
on strong in central Illinois.
“In the past couple of
years we’ve definitely
seen more of them,” Eeten said. “Usually not a
day goes by that I don’t
see one out and about.”
“We saw them start
popping up about five
years ago,” said Weis,
whose shop will order
electric motor bikes on
request but doesn’t sell
them from its floor.
The vehicles are not
mopeds, which by state
law requires a driver’s
license to operate and
can’t exceed 30 mph on
city streets.
They are bikes purchased with motors
attached, both battery- and gas-powered,
or are adapted with kits
bought online or ordered
through stores such as
Little Ades.
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“They are legal on the
street,” Eeten said. Their
riders need not have a
driver’s license, but must
be at least 16 years old.
Those bikes are limited
to 20 mph — and to
streets. Yet motor kits
with speeds double that
speed capacity are advertised online.
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“We’ve been issuing
speeding tickets,” to riders exceeding the limit,
Eeten said. Police also
have taken more calls
complaining of motorized bikers on sidewalks,
and of the noise caused
by bikes “with weedwhacker engines,” he
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a simple pedal bike into
a virtual motorcycle that
teens “don’t have a clue
how to operate” safely,
and who often don’t
obey basic rules of the
road, said Beeney, a cofounder of Bike Peoria
Co-Op.
Battery-powered, or
E-bikes, are another
matter, he said. “I generally don’t have a problem
with them,” in good part
because they cost more
and tend to be owned by
adults with experience
on the roads and respect
for the rules governing
them.
E-bikes “are starting
to grow, but they’re not
as common” as gas-powered models, Weis said.
The former, he said,
typically require some
pedaling from their
rider. They appeal more
to “older people and
those who don’t have a
(driver’s) license or don’t
want to drive” on their
short commutes to work.
“A lot of them have taken
(E-bikes) up as a hobby.”
Jimmy King turned
last spring to a battery
bike that he bought from
a friend for his daily
eight-block commute to
his bartending job at a
Peoria Heights restaurant/tavern. He has no
plans for now, he said, to
buy another car.
“Fifteen miles (an
hour) is fast enough for
me,” King, 55, said. He
sticks to side streets,
but a month ago took a
tumble when a vehicle
passed close to him from
behind.
“Our biggest concern
is safety” of the riders
and those they encounter on their rides, Weis
said.
“It’s a really torn subject” in his business, he
said. “Most (riders) are
responsible, but there’s
always those few who
ruin it for everyone else.”
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TimesNewspapers
PEKIN — Fall weather
brings numerous outdoor activities including mushroom hunting.
Finding the right ones
that are edible can be a
thrill. However, finding
toxic mushrooms can be
dangerous.
In fact, the dangers
outweigh the risk so
much that Carol DesLauriers, PharmD, DABAT,
Senior Director at the
Illinois Poison Center
advises not to eat wild
mushrooms at all. “Our
message is not to forage
for and ingest wild mushrooms. They are tasty but
not worth it,” she said.
Last year Illinois Poison Center received 153
calls related to mushrooms.
Her recommendation
is based on two factors.
One is called “unintentional pediatric ingestion.” This happens when
young children play in
their backyards and
illinois poison
pick a mushroom growing and stick it in their
mouths, not realizing it
can make them sick. To
prevent this from occurring, the simple solution,
DesLauriers said, is to
pluck them and throw
them away.
The second reason
stems from people hunting for mushrooms that
look like an edible mushroom they saw online.
Identifying mushrooms
is extremely difficult and
should be left to mycologists, according to DesLauriers.
Even when finding an
edible wild mushroom it
can be dangerous. Eating
mushrooms that have or
have had animal feces on
it or are rotten can cause
vomiting, diarrhea and
other stomach problems.
The IPC said liver
damage is also a concern when people ingest
wild mushrooms that
contain amatoxin. Those
mushrooms that contain amatoxin may show
symptoms anywhere
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Chlorophyllum molybdites, top.
ingestion. DesLauriers
said mushrooms containing amatoxin most likely
to be eaten in Illinois
are Amanita bisporigera
which has a white cap,
stem and gills, and a
“distinct cup of tissue at
the base of the stem.” The
other is Galerina marginata which has a “small
brown-orange mushroom
that can easily be mistaken for the edible honey
mushroom.”
Wild mushrooms that
do not have amatoxin
may cause serious illness.
“In our opinion, eating
wild mushrooms just
isn’t worth it,” DesLauriers reiterated. “We’ve
seen people get so sick
they need a liver transplant.”
Fall mushrooms that
contain “gastrointestinal
irritants” cause many
poisonings in Illinois resulting in vomiting and
diarrhea. One is Chlorophyllum molybdites.
They grow during summer and fall months in
Illinois and have “olive
green gills and oatmeal-
illinois poison center
like patches on its cap.”
The other that is “particularly harmful” is
Omphalotus illudens. It
is also “called the jack-olantern mushroom for its
bright orange color and
is often mistaken for the
edible species chanterelles.”
“Lesser toxic mushrooms start to make you
sick later and by then
you’re already in liver
failure,” said DesLauriers.
“Our recommendation
is to stick with grocery
store mushrooms.”
She said if one suspects
ingesting a poisonous
mushroom, call Illinois
Poison Center right away
at 1-800-222-1222. This
way the caller can talk to
IPC experts who can assess the situation. From
there IPC will work with
Ph.D. mycologists. She
asks that the caller send
in digital pictures of
the mushroom and surrounding area to assist
the experts with identification.
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Oct. 18 @ 10 am
PEKIN
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551 S. 14th St.
Oct. 20 @ 10 am
PEORIA
Methodist North at
Allen Road
2338 W. Van Winkle Way
Oct. 17 @ 2 pm
Oct. 28 @ 10 am
PEORIA
Peoria LibraryLakeview Branch
1137 W. Lake Ave.
Oct. 25 @ 11 am
SOUTH PARK
South Pekin Fire
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209 W. Main St.
Oct. 21 @ 10 am
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Love,
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PUBLIC NOTICE
EARLY VOTING DATES
Public Notice is hereby given that Early Voting in Woodford County will be conducted on the following dates and in the
following temporary location prior to the November 8, 2016 General Election.
Dates
Location
Hours
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September 29 & September 30
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October 3 – 7
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Monday
October 10
In observance of Columbus Day
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October 27
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October 29
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Wednesday
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November 3 & 4
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Saturday
November 5
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Monday
November 7
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What is Early Voting? Early Voting was new in 2006. The process allows all registered voters to cast their ballots prior
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5/19A-35b). No excuse or reason is necessary to apply. Early votes are tabulated at the Office of the County Clerk on Election
Day after the polls close at 7 pm by Election Judges.
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Richland Comm. Center
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Folepi’s Market Place
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Folepi’s Market Place
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Precinct 5
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Precinct 10
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2200 E. Washington St., East Peoria
446 Cass St., East Peoria
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2200 E. Washington St., East Peoria
201 Veterans Rd., East Peoria
201 Veterans Rd., East Peoria
1 Eastside Dr., East Peoria
2200 E. Washington St., East Peoria
2200 E. Washington St., East Peoria
1 Eastside Dr., East Peoria
2200 E. Washington St., East Peoria
2200 E. Washington St., East Peoria
2200 E. Washington St., East Peoria
2200 E. Washington St., East Peoria
1305 Bloomington Rd., East Peoria
2200 E. Washington St., East Peoria
5043 Queenwood Rd (1 blk. off
000 241587 5.500 Springfield Rd.) Groveland
East Peoria Historical
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Cross Point Church School
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241587
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The Encounter Church
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Creve Coeur Comm. Center
Creve Coeur Comm. Center
Creve Coeur Water Works
Marquette Hts. Council Room
Cross Point Church School
U.A.W. Local #974 Hall
Living Love Church
U.A. W. Local #974 Hall
Pekin Moose Lodge
Marquette Hts. Council Room
U.A.W. Local #974 Hall
Groveland Missionary Church
Pekin Moose Lodge
Dated this 1st day of October, 2016 in Pekin, Illinois,
101 Thorncrest, Creve Coeur
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586 Groveland Ave., Creve Coeur
586 Groveland Ave., Creve Coeur
101 Thorncrest, Creve Coeur
715 Lincoln, Marquette Heights
304 S. Pleasant Hill Rd., East Peoria
3025 Springfield Rd., East Peoria
1305 Bloomington Rd., East Peoria
3025 Springfield Rd., East Peoria
2605 Broadway St., Pekin
715 Lincoln, Marquette Heights
3025 Springfield Rd., East Peoria
5043 Queenwood Rd (1 blk. off
Springfield Rd.), Groveland
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