Temporary move set during work on expanded facility

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Three on
leave from
Staunton
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By Maggie Menderski
Staff Writer
which includes Sangamon
County and six surrounding counties. The other
license is still under review.
Dineff is an investor in
marijuana in other states,
including Washington
and Colorado. Medical
marijuana first piqued her
interest after one of her
S TAU N T O N — Tw o
administrators and a
teacher have been placed
on administrative leave
as the Staunton School
District completes an
investigation.
Details of the investigation weren’t released
in a brief statement to
the media. The school
board voted Feb. 27 to put
first-year School Superintendent Rich Stempinski,
elementary school principal Brooke Wiemers and
an unnamed teacher on
leave.
Leslie Gusewelle, a
bookkeeper and financial
coordinator for the district
office, said the district has
brought former School
S u p e r i n t e n d e n t Ky l e
Hlafka out of retirement
to serve in the interim.
District assistant principals have taken over for
Wiemers at the elementary
school, Gusewelle said.
“Our district is in good
hands as far as that’s concerned,” she said.
Stempinski, the former
director of business for the
Forest Ridge School District, was hired in March
2014.
The district directed
questions regarding the
investigation to its legal
counsel, Robbins Schwartz
Nicholas Lifton and Taylor
Ltd. of Collinsville. Attorneys with the firm did not
return calls from The State
Journal-Register.
Staunton Police Chief
Jeff Doerr said his department is not involved with
the investigation.
He also said police hadn’t
received any phone calls
from the public regarding
the issue.
“We have nothing to do
with it, and we don’t know
anything about it,” Doerr
said.
Macoupin County
assistant state’s attorney
Jordan Garrison said the
investigation has not been
referred to prosecutors.
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SEE STAUNTON, P5
Archie Ford and Cathy Delong fill boxes Friday in preparation for The Salvation Army’s temporary move
from its North Sixth Street administration offices to its adult rehabilitation center complex. PHOTOS BY DAVID
SPENCER/THE STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
Temporary move set during
work on expanded facility
St. John’s Hospital
purchases Sixth
Street building
By Tim Landis
Business Editor
commanding officer Maj.
Steve Woodard said the
charitable organization
plans to relocate by the
end of April to space at
The Salvation Army Adult
Rehabilitation Center, 221
S. 11th St., after HSHS St.
John’s Hospital purchased
the existing facilities at 530
N. Sixth St. The Salvation
Army has been at Sixth and
Carpenter streets since 1959.
Woodard said the organization also expects to
solicit bids in the next few
weeks for the first phase of
renovation at 100 N. Ninth
St. The Salvation Army
The Salvation Army’s facilities at 530 N. Sixth St.
have been sold to St. John’s Hospital.
purchased the former state for an expanded commuoffice building, immedi- nity center and homeless
ately east of Horace Mann shelter.
Educators Corp., for $3.4
million in 2009 with plans SEE SALVATION ARMY, P5
MEDICAL MARIJUANA
City business begins plans for dispensary
By Seth A. Richardson
State Capitol Bureau
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The long-anticipated
move by The Salvation
Army of Springfield to
expanded space in a
former state office building should be completed
in the summer of 2016,
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Police Chief Tom Jackson
was still on the job Friday,
two days after a government report blasted his
beleaguered department
for years of racial profiling,
and the mayor refused
to speculate about the
chief’s future, saying his
role was not to “just chop
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Springfield’s first medical marijuana dispensary
owner is happy to have
the long-delayed process
finally moving.
Laurel Dineff, the owner
of Maribis of Springfield,
said she should have access
to her building at 322 E.
Adams St. within the next
30 days, but the process
of opening
it will take
some time
after that.
“I got off
the ground
a little
Dineff
later than I
anticipated initially,” she
said.
Gov. Bruce Rauner finalized the recommendations
for most medical marijuana facilities in early
February after former Gov.
Pat Quinn balked at issuing licenses before leaving
office.
Maribis was recommended for one of the two
dispensary licenses in Illinois State Police District 9,