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JUNE 16, 2021

VOLUME 148 - ISSUE 24

Local looking to get backpack meal program off ground

By JARAD JARMON Calhoun News-Herald One local has taken it upon herself to ensure that students in the county don’t go home unsure of where or when their next meal might be through the creation of a program called the Weekend Power Pack.

During the school year, school breakfasts and lunches can satiate at least two of the meals in the day that these students should be getting – in some cases for free or at reduced prices depending on the parent or guardian’s financial situation. This makes certain that these students have food in their bellies throughout the weekdays. But come Saturday and Sunday, food insecurity, which is the state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food, becomes an even bigger factor in some of the students’ lives.

“Through seeing some kids “I really just kind of took the program a reality for kids and hearing some stories, I idea out there to see if I would in the county. The program just know that there is not have any support in doing a pro- is funded through donations, always enough at home. I just gram like this. I put it out on at any amount, from those want to help out any way that Facebook, and I got a lot of great in the community; howevwe can,” Calhoun program feedback – a lot of support from er, Klaas said people could sponsor a power pack for founder LeeAnn Klaas said. the community,” Klaas said. a student for Klaas, who $125. had worked “During the as a secretary ³, MXVW NQRZ WKDW WKHUH LV QRW DOZD\V school year, in the Calhoun we are going E l e m e n t a r y HQRXJK DW KRPH ´ to put togethSchool, but has er a little since moved LeeAnn Klaas pack of food, to the district Weekend Power Pack Program founder and it will sit office, has inside a gallon been wanting to look into the viability of Through this program, stu- Ziplock bag,” Klaas said. such a program in the county dents would be given a bag “So, each Friday afternoon, of food, placed discreetly in the bag will be put into the for quite some time.

“It has actually been on their backpack to take home students book bag, and they my heart for a while. I have during the weekends when can take it home for the seen the different programs school meals are unavailable. weekend, so that they have on television shows like news Each bag would contain two food throughout the weekshows, and I always thought breakfast options, two lunch end also.”

In a few short weeks, that would be such a wonder- options and two snack options. ful program to have here in All food is non-perishable and approximately $1,000 has been raised for the program.

Calhoun,” Klaas said. easy to prepare.

“I was overwhelmed by So, she put out a feeler on Currently, donations are social media May 27. being accepted to make the the support that I received,”

Klaas said. “It is not really surprising, because here in Calhoun, if anybody sees there is a need or a way to help out someone else, we always have each other’s backs. It was amazing, and I really appreciate the support.”

She said there are plans to host food drives ahead of August, as well as to make sure organizers are ready for the school year. One is slated to take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, June 26, at the four-way stop in Hardin.

As far as what foods Klaas and others helping organize the event are asking for, the wish list includes: Q Breakfast foods – Shelf stable milk boxes, breakfast bars, oatmeal pouches, single-serving cereals, granola bars, fruit and grain bars, pop-tarts, fruit cups and applesauce.

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By HALEY DISTERHOFT Calhoun News-Herald Summer is here, the state has fully opened up and among the events this season, the McCully Heritage Project is set to unveil a new trail at the 940-acre nature preserve.

The McCully Heritage Project will dedicate a new woodland trail and preservation area on Saturday, June 19, in honor of a lifetime board member, Skip Anderson, who died in 2020, Michelle Berg Vogel, director and program coordinator for the McCully Heritage Project, explained.

This trail, called the Big Timber Trail, is a narrow pedestrian trail that traverses through the dense canopy.

Visitors to the trail will see a variety of woodland plants along the trail, like ferns, Jackin-the-pulpit, spice bush and

paw paw.”

The trail head is marked by a sign in honor of Anderson, and features a memorial bench for another lifetime board member, Rita Knight, who died in 2018. Both were members of the board since the creation of the non-profit in 1990.

“The trail has been a work in progress for the past couple of years. In 2019, a foot bridge was constructed by volunteers, and is a great stopping point along the trail to experience the beauty of the Big Timber at the McCully Heritage Project,” Vogel said. “The dedication of the trail in Skip’s name or Rita’s memorial bench are just reminders that the entire place is here partly because of them.”

Along with the dedication of the trail, McCully has been a buzz with activity, especially following the pandemic.

“We were busier than ever last year,” Vogel said. “People couldn’t do much, but they could go outside.”

The preserve is expected this summer to be just as busy.

“A lot of the people we are getting for camping are coming from the St. Louis area, and we’ve been getting some folks from Chicago, and then we get some people who are going cross country,” Vogel said. “We have our camping listed on a website called hipcamp.com. t’s kind of like the AirBnB of tent camping. So, people can go there, they can book their campsite, they can pay for it there.”

Starting this week, McCully will also be hosting day camps for kids, in partnership with the Center for American Archeology.

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Resident calls on Hardin to establish no-passing zone

By JARAD JARMON Calhoun News-Herald

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ardin Village Board members have OK’d making a section of the highway going through town a no-passing zone after a resident at the Wednesday, June 9, meeting called for one.

Danny Gress discussed putting a no-passing zone from the grain elevator south of town to the pull-in for the private campgrounds, Hardin Village Clerk Danielle Hurley said.

Hurley said an accident Gress was involved in inspired the Hardin resident to address

the council.

“Him and his granddaughter were T-boned pulling into the campgrounds, because somebody went to pass him,” Hurley said.

Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Kennedy Crutchley explained from the traffic report made about the accident on May 23 that Gress was driving ahead of Lona M. Campbell, both going southbound. It was about 100 feet north of Lions Street, near Quiller’s Outboard Sales when Gress turned left into the campground. At the same time, Campbell attempted to pass him going into the northbound lane.

It was then that Campbell struck Gress’s vehicle with her own.

“He said on numerous occa-

sions, people are always trying to pass there, because the person is going super slow to pull into the campground, and then, they just swing out to go around, and then they get hit,” Hurley said.

The board OK’d making the area a no-passing zone, however, there is no timeline for when signage and road lines might reflect that.

The village board also signed the necessary paperwork to allow fiber internet in Hardin.

The Illinois Electric Cooperative, which will be bringing fiber high-speed internet to the village, had begun a journey toward getting fiber optic internet to Calhoun County in 2014.

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Residents reflect on KC Hall collapse 50 years later

By CONNOR ASHLOCK Calhoun News-Herald This past May marked the 50th anniversary of the Knights of Columbus Hall south of Hardin giving way as several hundred attendees danced and conversed on top of it.

The event 50 years ago that brought these locals to the hall marked the recent completion of the new 40x50 foot dance hall, which was a much larger addition onto the already-existing structure that was utilized as a bar.

The Calhoun News article from 1971 that covered the near-tragedy shared that an estimated 700 people were there, scattered throughout the yard and building.

With such a large crowd, virtually everyone in the Kingdom can bear the distinction of having known someone who was present that night.

The Knights and their wives went all-out for the event, preparing a meal and calling on

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a regionally-famous band, the Marquettes, to provide entertainment.

“The festivities began at 5:30 when free food and beer were served until 7:30 p.m.,” The News reported concerning the event. “People from

all over the county were in attendance as were many from the surrounding areas, including a delegation of about 150 from the Jerseyville Knights of Columbus order.”

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Better Newspapers, Inc. acquires Calhoun News-Herald Greg Hoskins, publisher of Better Newspapers, Inc., is proud to announce the acquisition of five Illinois newspapers: Calhoun News-Herald, Greene Prairie Press, Pike Press, Scott County Times and Jersey County Journal, all headquartered in Jerseyville.

Based in Mascoutah, Better Newspapers, Inc., is a family-owned company currently operating 31 publications in Illinois and Missouri.

“My staff and I are looking forward to the challenges and, more importantly, continuing to meet the needs of the Jerseyville and surrounding communities,” Hoskins stated.

Hoskins bought his first group of newspapers in Mascoutah when he formed Better Newspapers, Inc. on May 1, 1991, and the newspapers included: the Mascoutah Herald, Clinton County News, Fairview Heights Tribune, and Scott Flier, which serves Scott Air Force Base.

Since that time, Hoskins has purchased Altamont News, Arthur Graphic Clarion, Record-Herald News in Arthur and Bond and Fayette County Shopper, The Shoppers Review in Highland, The Nashville News, The Troy Times-Tribune, The Journal and the TriCounty Journal, both in Tuscola, The Leader Union in Vandalia, Southern Champaign County Today in Villa Grove, The Breeze Courier (daily) and the Shopping Spree, both located in Taylorville, and the Illinois Business Journal, a monthly business publication.

Missouri publications include Wayne County Journal-Banner and Reynolds County Courier both in Piedmont, Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ozark Horse Trader in West Plains, the Mountain Echo and Mountain Echo Extra in Ironton and the Douglas County Herald in Ava. In 2012, Hoskins expanded his corporation by building a regional press plant in Altamont. This plant not only prints publications owned by Better Newspapers but also a variety of other newspapers in the area.

Hoskins attended the University of Iowa where he earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts. His first newspaper job was in the sales department of the Times Press in Streator.

Hoskins discovered his love and respect for newspapers at the local company.

After leaving the Times Press, he began working for American Publishing Company in West Frankfort.

The experience took him to Arizona to work for Kramer Publications, which produced a daily newspaper and approximately 17 weekly newspaper and shopper publications.

The corporate headquarters of Better Newspapers, Inc., is located in Mascoutah. It is an organization founded on family loyalty.

Greg Hoskins is president of the corporation, and his wife, Linda, works in the editorial department. His son, Scott Hoskins, is the Metro East general manager, and his other son, Mark, is the regional manager for the press plant and newspapers in Altamont.

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OPINION/NEWS

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California trans law becomes problematic

By BILL HOAGLAND Scott Wiener is a member of the California Senate.

Last year, he introduced legislation that would allow male prisoners in California to declare that they are now transgender, and that going forward, it is their desire to be incarcerated with female cellmates instead of male cellmates.

This legislation, designated as SB 132 and referred to as “The Respect, Agency and Dignity Act,” was signed into law last year and became effective Jan. 1.

The original purpose of this legislation was to protect transgendered felons who were previously male and who have been incarcerated with males. They reportedly have been subjected to an inordi-

nate number of rapes, violence and discrimination as a result of being in a cell with a heterosexual male.

This legislation gives incarcerated transgender males an option to be transferred to a female prison.

While the original purpose of the legislation may have been to reduce violence for transgendered felons, there is a problem with this new law.

In essence, it allows any male felon to declare that he now regards himself as a female and once this declaration is made, prison administrators must attempt to accommodate his desire to be incarcerated with a female instead of a male.

Under a literal reading of the statute, there is no requirement that the inmate declaring

that he is now a female first have body modification surgery or hormones. Apparently, all he has to do is to declare he is now a female and that triggers an obligation to accommodate him if possible.

When this legislation was first being considered, a prison administrator in California said this “loophole” would not be a problem because no selfrespecting male felon would declare himself to be a female.

Really?

Think about it; if you were a heterosexual male with a 10-year prison sentence in front of you, would you not at least consider declaring yourself to be female if it meant having a female cellmate instead of a male cellmate?

And would you really worry that your prison buddies might

make fun of you?

As it turns out, since Jan. 1, more than 555 California male inmates have officially declared themselves to be female. Some of these declarants are physically transgendered but not all of them; some have simply decided to become females.

Truth is, not everyone is happy with this development – least of all, the female inmates.

Historically, in other prisons where this plan has been instituted – notably in Canada and New Zealand – some transgendered males who are now designated female have raped their female cellmates.

This should come as no surprise; they tend to be stronger than their female cellmates.

And based on information provided by Dr. Callie Burt,

a renowned criminologist in California, it appears that most of these transgendered men are still “men,” if you get my drift. (For further details on this point, see the Sept. 24, 2020, discussion by Dr. Burt at www.callieburt.org.)

Here’s my question: suppose you have a friend who has been in the Amazon jungle for the past 10 years, and now, he is back, wanting to know what he missed during those 10 years of isolation.

How can you begin to explain things like this?

––––––––––––––––––– Q Bill Hoagland has practiced law in Alton for more than 50 years, but he has spent more than 70 years hunting, fishing and generally being in the great outdoors. His wife, Annie, shares his love of the outdoor life. Much of their spare time is spent on their farm in Calhoun County.

Bill can be reached at billhoagland70@gmail.com.

Outdoor Truths: Gary Miller

Time to go alone; don’t let fear stop you Even though a friend took me on my first turkey hunt, my first success came while hunting alone.

That morning, I remember that my tools of the trade amounted to a Lynch box call and a 10-gauge H and R shotgun – no slate calls and definitely no mouth calls. I can also remember moving from place to place on this farm without having much confidence.

Late in the morning, I made my way to an area known to hold deer. I crossed a hayfield and crawled under a barbed

wire fence before giving that box call another try.

As soon as I slid the lid of that call across the box, I heard a gobble to my left.

I didn’t even recognize at the time that it was a jake.

But, it really didn’t matter to me. My heart started beating like I was drawing my bow back on a deer.

This was even stronger because of this first experience.

The young gobbler came running, and soon was in front of me. It couldn’t see me because of a log that was lying parallel to the ground. I watched him

walk in front of me until he stepped into the open. In a few seconds, it was over.

I’m so thankful someone took me on my first turkey hunt. I watched, listened and soaked in as much information as I could. And even though the excitement ran high, I knew I had to temper it in order to learn.

My guide would not always be with me. As in most areas of our life, there comes a time when we have to step out from the security of the teacher and into the risky business of going alone. It can be

a time of trial and error, but it is nevertheless necessary if we are going to stretch ourselves into new and exciting arenas.

I think about my daughter. When she was only a young teenager, she would get a cookbook and try to recreate the delicacy on the page. If she didn’t know what a particular ingredient was, or if we didn’t have it, she would substitute it with something of her choosing.

Many times, maybe even most of the time, the results were not that good.

But what I was most proud

of was the fact that she was not satisfied to sit on the sideline until someone helped her. She decided she would try it on her own.

Friends, some of you have had the best teacher, but now it’s time to go out alone. If you keep letting the fear of failure stop you, you’ll never get the opportunity to see if failure itself stands a chance against you.

––––––––––––––––––– Q Gary has three books that are compilations of the articles he has written for nearly 15 years. He

also speaks at game dinners and men’s groups for churches and associations.

You can contact him at gary@outdoortruths.org.

day. I was black and blue from my hip halfway down my knee, and I had a ruptured disc a month later,” Eschbach said.

Eschbach would come to realize the bruise came from being hit by one of the tables during the descent.

The floor descended slow enough to not cause a panic, but at a fast enough pace to prevent visitors from grasping the severity of the situation until it was too late to react.

Had the floor started sagging in such a way that people could have been escorted out of the building in time, they wouldn’t have been stuck in the basement.

But, as Eschbach said, it was probably the slow descent that prevented more serious injuries from being sustained.

“That’s what kept people from getting hurt too bad in my opinion,” Eschbach said.

Throughout the ordeal, the building’s electricity stayed on, so the lights never went out.

At the time the floor support failed, the men in Eschbach’s family were outside, where many celebrants had gathered to escape the crowded hall.

“They had to more or less fight their way in,” Eschbach recalled.

Roberta Hurley was also present that night, waitressing while her husband, Roger, a Knight, served drinks at the bar.

“Back then, the men did the bartending, and the wives did the waitressing.

I had just taken drinks to somebody, and I felt the floor kind of shake, and I thought, ‘Hmm, that’s kind of funny,’” Hurley recalled.

“Well, instead of going through the big doors going into the bar, I walked to where they served drinks out of the windows there.”

The window Hurley was referring to was used for waitresses to grab drinks from the dance hall. She and two others walked up to that window just in the nick of time. She was just a little bit away from the window when the floor started going down, but when she realized

what was happening, she rushed back to it.

Hurley’s position gave her the broadest perspective of the entire scene as she looked on in amazement at the floor literally sinking from the middle down in front of her.

“I turned around, and I looked, and I saw the floor starting to go down. I had a little bitty space to put my feet in, so I stuck my feet in and hung onto that window. I turned around, and I saw the piano starting to go down, and I saw the instruments kind of sparking,” Hurley recalled.

The floor cracked loudly as it split during the descent, apparently shocking the crowd who was outside.

According to Hurley, there was one man who was outside that was so startled by the sound that he jumped into a nearby ditch, fearing that a bomb had gone off.

Hurley was so focused on what was going on around her that she didn’t realize she had her arm directly over a lit cigarette.

“I had my arm stretched out trying to reach the other side of the window, and I had my arm on a cigarette and I didn’t even know it,” Hurley said. “I still have the scar.”

After the floor’s descent had concluded, Hurley remembered watching a small cloud of dust settle below while she continued to hold onto the window while barely keeping their footing.

Thankfully, her husband was on the other side and pulled her and her two friends who were with her through the window, having to stand on some cases of beer to help lift them over.

As Eschbach held tight to her mother and Hurley watched the floor sink beneath her, little Barbara Simon, now Godar, recalls falling down with the rest of the crowd that night.

Godar had just turned 11 years old when she and her older sister attended the grand opening of the Knights of Columbus Hall.

To this day, she has the glass in her finger to prove it.

“We were all sitting at the table on the south side of the building when our table slid down," Godar recalled.

“The floor kind of cracked down the center east to west longways.”

Godard recalled herself, as well as everyone around her, falling into a heap of folding chairs, heavy banquet tables, musical instruments and broken soda glasses, not to mention other people.

“You could hear the crack in the floor crack longways before everyone just slid down to the bottom,” Godar said. “I remember the sliding, and I remember my finger being cut and grandma’s leg being cut.”

Godar’s grandma ended up having to take an ambulance ride that night, but it wasn’t anything too serious. As Godar recalled, she was able to return home that night.

The crowd hushed as they sank below, Godar said.

There were some ladies who were crying after the fact, but as far as chaos went, folks held on to their wits.

Godar even recalled the band continuing to play for a brief moment while the floor started to crack, but, of course, the Marquettes would have to break the unspoken musician’s rule of never stopping for anything when someone had to hold onto the piano as it went down.

After the fact, Godar watched folks collecting themselves and ambulances pulling up to the scene.

Godar wasn’t able to fully recall what happened next, but Eschbach and Hurley remember the amazing sight of the men in the basement forming a human chain that allowed their friends and family to climb out of the basement.

“I remember the men locked arms and walked up the side and made a chain link. They started on the bottom and those men stood arm-in-arm on the wall and pulled people out,” Hurley said.

Hurley’s sister-in-law, Jean, was also present that night, and was able to help

muster the troops by hitching a ride up to Jim Franke’s house when he still worked for the Illinois State Police.

“She said, ‘Jim, the KC Hall just went down,’ and he jumped up,” Hurley recalled.

For Godar, the response from not only those in the community that night, but also the response of those who were present was amazing.

“This was the country.

Everyone knew everyone, and the country folk got together and helped each other. They didn’t think about the tragedy. It had happened, it was done and now you had to get out of it,” Godar said.

Although, for Godar and her sister, the events of that night would linger on for some time after.

She and her older sister, Diana, who was 13 years old at the time, were traumatized after the event. Godar recalled her sister having nightmares and not being able to go to school for several days after.

Godar didn’t have the same experience, but in

time, she’d come to realize that the events of that night left their mark on her, too.

Godar’s parents, Lawrence and Joyce Simon, were also members of the Jerseyville Moose Lodge.

Whenever the Moose had a larger dance, it would be hosted on the second floor ballroom.

Godar remembered being there one night with her family, when ironically enough, the Marquettes were playing. They started playing When the Saints Go Marching In, and that was when Godar had to march out.

“My dad literally had to take me outside,” Godar said. “And to this day, when that song comes on, I have flashbacks of that whole experience.”

When it was all said and done though, no one was killed and everyone was able to go on with life as normal, albeit with temporary injuries and for some, lifelong battle scars.

Now, 50 years later, there are still plenty of folks around who can recall the events of that night.

Collapse (Continued from A1) Preparation for the event that Sunday went without incident, as well as the supper earlier in the evening, which was prepared in the basement. But, it wasn’t too long after the band started playing and folks got to dancing that things took a turn.

Some folks felt the initial “thud” that preceded a slow descent into the basement below, but for others, it took a moment to process what was going on.

Pauline Eschbach is one of many who remember the events of that Sunday evening back in May 1971.

Eschbach’s father, brother, husband and brother-inlaw were all Knights, so needless to say, the whole family was in attendance to celebrate the grand opening.

When the music began, Eschbach and other family members were seated at a table, with her mother at the end closest to the dancers.

But as the strains of “When the Saints Come Marching In” started to ring out, the floor started to slowly descend. Instinctively, the family knew they had to take care of Eschbach’s mother.

“When we started to go down, we got around her to keep her from going down so fast,” Eschbach said.

“She stayed in her chair.

She didn’t try to stand up.”

The table started to slide down the middle, as did all those who remained sitting in their chairs. Folks basically mashed together at the middle of the room as the floor continued its descent.

As the floor continued to sink into the basement from the middle, forming a U-shaped dip at a 45 degree angle on either side, it was impossible for attendees to keep their balance. Thus, it was a good thing that Eschbach and her family huddled around their matriarch to prevent her from getting seriously hurt, holding either her or her chair.

For Eschbach, though, she wouldn’t walk away unscathed.

“I didn’t know I had anything wrong until the next

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OBITUARIES/OUR TOWN

25 years ago June 19, 1996 Several people gathered at the Deer Plain Cemetery Monday afternoon, Memorial Day, where they reminisced about the early days of the cemetery.

Mr. Keck, who had started the school system, was the beginner and his monument 1871 was his burial grounds.

He came here from Mercer County, PA., before then.

The first school was made of logs with a subscription for teachers.

The next one was a two-story school built just south of the old one. There was also a Keck No. 1 near the ferry, which was used for the pupils who lived there. After some years, it was discarded.

One teacher had all the children in the new building beginning in 1893. This new building was built by bond issue.

The funds left by Keck were to be used for the upkeep of the building and teachers salaries.

When consolidation began years later, this fund was transferred to the new district and the smaller schools were all closed. Bus service began and everyone in the school system was transferred to the new school at Brussels.

Many who were present Monday had been former pupils. Olive Navarre had been a teacher in that district.

Pictured, left to right, are her six pupils, Genarose Gearing,

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Edna LaMarsh, Evelyn Lawson, Lloyd Wilschetz, CLinton Osbourne and Charles Nairn.

Absent were Geroge and Jim Stemmler, who had enjoyed one year in the country while Mr. Elder was their teacher.

These two fellows were busy preparing a picnic lunch for the group with plenty of cold drinks.

50 years ago June 17, 1971 Renaissance man at leisure Bob Mortland plays his hand-carved guitar while his other creations, such as the hand-carved mahogany chair, paintings and television cabinet attest to his truly Renaissance abilities.

(The following article appeared in a recent issue of the Miami, Fla. Herald, and was headed: “Teacher Robert Mortland is Naples Renaissance Man,” by Tom Morgan, Naples Bureau Chief of the Herald.

The reporter failed to mention Bob’s ability as an artist, as his apartment is filled with beautiful tropical paintings which he has done over the years. One of his “master pieces” hangs in the Naples Bank, and he has held art shows since going to Naples.

In Calhoun, Bob was well known for his photography as well as his musical talent.

As a young man, he played in a dance orchestra, starting

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out with the drums and later the guitar.

He was director of the choir at the Hardin Presbyterian Church and wrote several songs and made arrangements which the choir used.

Bob was active here in the school and with local civic groups. He produced the Hay Loft Jamboree at the school, a very popular annual event, and was emcee for the Apple Festival on several occasions.

Bob started teaching school at an early age in the oneroom country schoolhouse at Franklin, south of Hardin. He is a graduate of Blackburn College, the University of Illinois and has a master’s degree from the University of Florida.

He is now head of the language department at Naples High School, where his wife, the former Eva Jane Foote of Nebo, teaches commercial and business classes.)

He plays a hand-carved guitar, manages an apartment co-op and heads the Naples High School language department. That’s Robert Mortland, the city’s own version of the Renaissance man.

Modest, smiling, soft-spoken and a student favorite, Mortland has almost too many demonstrated talents to catalog.

The guitar came by chance.

He had a guitar with a worn case he wanted to replace, “so I decided to try building a guitar too.” He did, using such things as a bit of walrus tusk for a bridge, a bought keyboard, and a hand-carved piece of mahogany, he had used the rest of the mahogany for a magnificent antique-style chair.

OBITUARY

URBAN W. KLOCKENKEMPER Urban W. Klockenkemper, 82, passed away on Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at Christian Northeast Hospital.

He was born on March 25, 1939 in Batchtown, the son of Herbert and Mary (Hattemer) Klockenkemper.

Urban was a member of St. Barbara’s Catholic Church in Batchtown. He was a life long farmer.

Urban is survived by two siblings, Vera Klockenkemper and Elda (Ted) Hayn; two nephews, Terry (Adrienne) Hayn and Jarrod

(Angie) Hayn; two nieces, Tammy (Darren) Kress and Tonya Hayn-Kuhn; one great-niece, Shelby Hayn; and four great-nephews, Garret Hayn, Caden Hayn, Jacob Kress, and Ryan Kuhn.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

Funeral Mass was held Monday May 3, 2021 at St. Barbara’s Catholic Church in Batchtown.

Burial will follow at St. Barbara’s Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to Mass or family choice.

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The guitar has a wonderful rich tone and it’s beautiful finish belies the bit of Clorox bottle, epoxy glue and fuller’s earth from a swimming pool filter which helped decorate it.

“I didn’t really think it would be so, but the tone is good,” Mortland admits.

The apartment management isn’t full time. He’s watching over Beacon House West for Manager Earl Epperson who’s called away by a family illness.

“I’m just fitting in,” Mortland says.

It’s kind of a repayment, Epperson lets Mortland use the apartments’s shop area for some bigger projects, and there are some pretty big ones.

The mahogany chair isn’t the biggest. There is an entertainment center that flanks one living room wall, a minutely carved Spanish chest desk and a pair of beautifully carved and somewhat grotesque wooden stools.

There’s another standing cabinet with display shelves

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School Bus Demolition 7:00 pm SATURDAY, JUNE 26

Compact, Youth, Gut N Go, Super Stock (Mike Brown Productions) 7:30 pm SUNDAY, JUNE 27

Garden Tractor Pull 1:00 pm Beer Pavilion open daily from Noon-12:00 pm “Off The WALL” band on Friday, June 25 9:00 pm-12:00 pm Robinson Woodcarvers Auction Saturday, June 26 at 8:00 pm 4-H shows on grounds Wednesday, June 23 thru Friday, June 25

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in a bedroom and an attractive screen showing scenes of Naples new and old. It is one of two he made for the Mortlands’ two daughters, Nancy and Beth, Mrs. Les Crown and Mrs. Jim Goddard, respectively.

“I just used an old Boy Scout leather burning tool,” Mortland says, decrying the perfection of the scenes on the screen.

He is best known for his creation of “Evil Eye Fleagle,” the NHS mascot, a king-size hollow eagle which marches up and down the dielines at sports events, propelled by a quick-stepping student.

Mortland and Clint Smith, a former teacher, produced the golden bird at the same time Mortland wrote the NHS fight song while faculty advisor for the student council six or seven years ago.

Mortland heads the language department as the Spanish teacher, but the Spanish is more or less an accident, Mortland claims.

“I came to Florida as an English teacher 12 years ago,” he says. “I’m kind of a faculty retread, changing over to Spanish and getting my master’s degree at the University of Florida after I got here.”

What next? Well, Mortland was awfully interested in the reporter’s flashing pencil.

“I always was interested in journalism,” he admits.

That may be next.

75 years ago June 13, 1946 The 485-acre Rainey farm, known as the Walnut Hall Farm, of Carrollton, will be sold at 2 p.m. at public auction Saturday, July 6, according to a decree entered in probate court in Greene County June 7.

The Walnut Hall Farm had been the home of the late Henry T. Rainey, former Speaker of the House of Representatives, for many years.

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The Little Things “We can do no great things, only small things with great love.”

-Mother Teresa

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t some time or another most of us dream of doing something big, perhaps writing a great book or starting a business that changes the world, or perhaps performing some amazing athletic or artistic feat.

It is all well and good to dream, but it is the small things of everyday life that make up the warp and woof of our existence.

The small things are our everyday interactions with our family, our friends and our classmates or co-workers. It is in these small things that we reveal our characters and cultivate our truest selves. Often it is in these small things that we fail, perhaps by losing our temper or otherwise reacting poorly to minor things. It is also worth noting that even when we are trying to do something great or are faced with some huge task,

we do it one step at a time, and again it comes down to the little things. The small acts of kindness and courtesy, the smile and the friendly greeting can make a big difference in the lives of those around us. Resolve to perform these small gestures with love and you will thereby have done something great.

–Christopher Simon

These religious messages are published each week in the Calhoun News-Herald as a service to our churches and are sponsored by the listed business firms.

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WHAT'S GOING ON BETWEEN THE RIVERS Q Point News

by Carol Sue Carnes Q 618-883-2333

Monday, Flag Day, is celebrated on June 14 of each year.

Established initially in a proclamation by President Woodrow Wilson in 1916 and later officially designated by Congress in 1949. In 1777, the Continental Congress made the flag an official national symbol on June 14.

Over a century later, a school teacher, Bernard Cigrand, placed a US flag on his desk and asked his students to write what the flag meant to them. He taught at Stony Hill School in Waubeka, Wis. In 2004, Congress recognized this school as a historical site, where it was officially declared the origin of Flag Day. I hope everyone had their flag flying today in observance of this.

Vacation Bible School at St. Matthew Church in Brussels ended on Saturday with 89 children and 11 young adults participating.

Each evening, they had Bible study, and four of these evenings enjoyed a meal together beforehand.

Co-directors were Debbie Kamp and Lea Miller. Amanda Brodbeck was in charge of games, Carol Pohlman, music; Debbie Kuhn, crafts; Linda Halemeyer, Bible story lessons; Erna Halemeyer, Paula Wieneke, Katie DeSherlia, Majesta Garcia and Debbie Kamp on the preschool staff; Lea Miller, video presentations; Jodi Plummer, photographer; Pastor Randy and wife Beth Fischer, Bible Challenge and refreshments; Mary Lou Goetze, Ruth Johnson and Fred Goetze and Bernell Weigel, cleaning.

On Friday, the young adults were treated to the “Rock and Jump” in O’Fallon, Mo., and a picnic lunch at the park in St. Peters afterward. They were Hannah Klaas, Natalee Droste, Brody White, Andrew Heffington, Dresden Schulte, Dayton Brundies, Peyton Baalman, Alex Friedel, Camryn Klaas, Cheyenne Brundies and Olivia Brodbeck. Another successful VBS at St. Matthews!

Derrick and Jan Bick and son Cole, of O’Fallon, Mo., hosted a party last Sunday in honor of their daughter, Kaela Bick. The occasion was Kaela’s 14th birthday, also her eighth-grade graduation and recent confirmation.

Attending from this area were her grandparents, Roy and Barb Hagen of Brussels and Kenny and Judy Bick of Batchtown. After Blake Nolte’s ballgame in that area, they were also joined by Rita Nolte and Mark and Jennifer Nolte, Ellie and Blake of Golden Eagle.

Congratulations to you Kaela and best wishes for a wonderful year ahead!

Dennis and Ann Patton of St. Louis hosted a birthday brunch and party on Sunday at their home in honor of their twins, Ryder and Sienna, celebrating their fifth birthday.

Attending the celebration from this area were their grandparents Kevin and Elaine Eberlin of Brussels. Many more “happy ones” to Ryder and Sienna!

Yvonne Nolte and I attended the annual meeting of the Illinois Rural Electric Cooperative in Winchester on Saturday morning.

Also present from this area were Larry and Barb Pohlman.

Many were in attendance for the refreshments, meeting and drawing. Congratulations to Cindy Heffington of Batchtown, who won $100 off her electric bill and to Julie Eberlin of Brussels, who was re-elected for another three-year term on the board. Many thanks to the board and the employees for a great morning.

Congratulations to Greg Ringhausen, who retired after 46 years with German Insurance in both the Hardin and Jerseyville office. After a long career in the insurance business he is certainly ready for retirement. We wish you the very best, Greg, in the years ahead!

Susan Meyer, of Golden Eagle, and Jane Ybarra, of Branson, spent a few days in Gulf Shores, Ala., recently. Not only did they enjoy

the beach and other sights but also attended the wedding of Zane Friedel and Abigail Herrmann. The couple was married on the beach in a beautiful ceremony. Abby is the daughter of Danny and Diann Herrmann of Hardin and Zane the son of Butch and Lori Friedel, of Batchtown. Many other cousins and friends of the couple were in attendance. Best wishes to the happy couple!

Bobby and Donna Mulkins and John and Angie Willman, Madison, Mitchell and friend, all of Meppen, also enjoyed time at Gulf Shores. On Saturday, they, too, attended the wedding of Zane and Abby, also enjoying the beautiful area and beach while there.

Virginia Murphy, of Golden Eagle, and her sister, Melba Hendricks, of Wood River, were honored on their birthday with a family get-together on Saturday at the home of Fred and Trish Jones in St. Charles, Mo. Everyone enjoyed the wonderful meal and day together.

The South Calhoun Retirement Center Board welcomes Barry Struse to their apartment complex. Barry told me he will be 80 years old on Friday and decided it was time to downsize. We wish you the best Barry in your new surroundings!

Congratulations to Bob and Bonnie Held, who celebrated their 58th wedding anniversary on June 8. That evening they enjoyed a delicious meal at Pere Marquette Lodge to celebrate the occasion.

My son and daughter-in-law, John and Julie Carnes, celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary that same day. That evening they enjoyed a delicious Italian dinner at “Zia’s On the Hill” in St. Louis, followed by a Cardinal game at Busch Stadium. Best wishes to both couples for many more happy and healthy years ahead!

Happy to hear the Calhoun Pool and Patio opened on June 11. Their schedule is Monday through Saturday, at noon to 5 p.m. Everyone involved put in hard work, especially Bob Ellis and Craig Johnson. I’m sure it will be well-used this summer.

Tony and Joyce Siemer, of Batchtown, enjoyed a week-long vacation in the Gulf Shores, Ala., area last week. While there they also enjoyed a Dolphin Cruise in Pensacola, Fla., visited Alligator Alley, between Naples and Fort Lauderdale, spent time on the beach and then attended the beautiful wedding of Zane and Abigail Friedel on the beach on Saturday. Sounds like they had a wonderful time.

Birthday blessings this week to my great granddaughter Adelaide Keppler. Also, Virginia Murphy, Melba Hendricks, Linda (Hutcherson) Held, David Titus, Joseph Struse who will be 14 on the 14th, Aiden Plummer, Morgan Klaas, Marietta Nolte, Henry Kinder, Mary Eilerman, Ellen Nicols, John Paul Vogel, Doris Schobernd, Jackie Rose, Danielle Hurley, Barry Struse, Emily Fortschneider, Brantley Heffington, Isaiah Katzenberger and all others celebrating their natal day this week.

Happy Anniversary to Paul and Pat Riechman, Bernie and Gloria Snyders, Neil and Charlene Friedel, Lee and Jean Tepen, Jeff and Chelsie Bonner, Bill and Cindy Heffington, Keith and Rachelle Kinder, Tony and Joyce Siemer, John and Rosie Wreath, Vince and Pat Baalman, Lonnie and Charlene Haug, Ted and Melissa Morissey and all other couple celebrating their wedding anniversary.

FATHER’S DAY PRAYER Heavenly Father, You remind us that as a father shows compassion to his children, so You show compassion to your children. Let us always recognize fatherhood as a gift.

We pray for fathers everywhere: let them embrace their obligations and love their families. Thank You for their guidance, protection, nurture, dedication and sacrifice.

Through Christ our Lord, Amen.

Q Kampsville News Representing Calhoun, Colleen Schumann was chosen to play in the All-Star basketball game on Sunday at MacMurray College, and she represented Calhoun well. She won the three-point shootout. Bob, Christine and Blake Schumann, Bev Mosbarger, Rusty Schumann, Myra, Dave and Faith Griffon all enjoyed watching her play and cheering her on. She is an amazing basketball player and an absolute sweetheart.

Miss Calhoun County Junie Zirkelbach and Little Miss Calhoun Kate Adams represented Calhoun Wednesday evening at the Macoupin County Fair.

Congratulations to Kevin Webster and Kristin Franke, who were married Saturday in Kampsville. They were married on the Kampsville riverfront and had a beautiful reception and dance at The Pavilion.

Congratulations to Cole Sibley and Jamie Witt, who were married Saturday also at McCully’s Heritage Project.

Congratulations also to Austin Malley and Larisa Bokota, who got engaged over the weekend.

Reagan Taul performed Monday and Tuesday evening at the James Eagan The-

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ater at the Florissant Civic Center at her dance recital with the Parish School of Performing Arts. Lindsey, Dre, Sami, Carson, Chloe Angelo and myself attended. Reagan shines when she is on the stage.

McCully Heritage Project will dedicate the Big Timber Trail and Preservation area in honor of Skip Anderson on Saturday, June 19, at 2 p.m. Skip was a lifetime board member at McCully’s.

Don’t forget Kampsville Clean-up Days June 17-20. Dumpsters will be located on the property where Kampsville Inn used to be.

Happy Birthday to one of our Kampsville Ferry pilots, Dan Pohlman, who turned 50 on June 9.

Happy 18th Anniversary to Chase and Alex Prokuski on June 13.

Please add Margie Smith and Isabel McLaughlin to your prayers, and continue prayers for Jerry Crader, Linda Herkert, Bill Schumann, Rick Randazzo, Eileen Gardner, Jim Hill, Kurt Roth, Joe Gress, Amy Roth, Joyce Blumenberg, Darren Kress, Mary Jo Kress, Mary Ann Bailey, Mark Bowers, Kathryn Chapman and Bruce Williams.

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by Marcy Klockenkemper Q 618-396-2468

Everyone is enjoying the warmth and beauty of the green hills of summer.

Larry and Mary Kay Wieneke celebrated their golden wedding anniversary June 12.

Sunday, the family went out to eat together at the Pere Marquette Lodge and had a wonderful time. We wish you many more years together.

The Klunk Family Reunion was held in Wood River on June 10. Families attending from the area were: Mary Ann Flannigan, Val Klunk, Jim and Theresa Johnes, Joe and Kathy Schulte, and sister Ann Marie Schulte.

The three picnics for Blessed Trinity Parish are getting ready for a drive-thru take out of some of their specialties. The Batchtown community is getting ready for the St. Barbara Batchtown Picnic this year by serving turtle soup only by carry-out on July 24.

St. Joseph’s is serving fish and corn dog sandwiches by drive-thru July 31, and St. Mary’s is serving a chicken dinner by drivethru on Aug. 8. More details will follow as the time approaches.

The St. Barbara Church members will be preparing chickens and turtles for the picnic Saturday, June 26. A group will arrive early at 6 a.m. to get the chickens on to cook. All helpers should arrive by 8 a.m. to work.

The Calhoun Entertainment Company will present the musical, “Grease” July 30 and 31 and Aug. 1 at the Calhoun County fairgrounds.

All of their shows are entertaining with great performances by all the cast.

Mark your calendar and attend their summer performances.

The Presley Family reunion was held June 13 from noon to 4 p.m. at Carrollton Park.

Family attending were Terry and Terry Presley, Jon and Cindy Herrmann, Tammy Presley and John and Jennifer Presley.

On June 5, Skylar Presley celebrated her 18th birthday. Skylar and grandmother Terry made birthday cupcakes on her birthday.

Congratulations to Zane Friedel and Abigail Herrmann, who were married Thursday, June 10, in Gulf Shores, Ala. Zane is the son of Gabe (Butch) and Lori Friedel, and Abby is the daughter of Dan and Diann Hermann.

Many of their relatives and friends attended the wedding. Best wishes to Mr. and Friedel

on your wedding day and through the years to come.

Barb Sperlo recently took a vacation trip the week after Memorial Day with former classmates to Orange Beach, Ala. They took a swim in the ocean, and saw the scenery and sights in the area.

Robin and Bernie Hillen celebrated their 46th wedding anniversary June 14 together with their family. We wish you many more years of happiness.

The Batchtown Woman’s Club will meet for their June Meeting, June 16 at 5:30 p.m.

Barb Sperlo has the program. The Health Fair with the Brussels Woman’s Club will be on the agenda.

The St. Vincent DePaul Society helps with rent, utilities, GED, mortgage, and with other agencies. Call the volunteer hotline at 1-618310-1141.

Dennis Presley celebrated his birthday June 11. We wish him many more years of happiness.

Verann Klockenkemper entertained her nieces, Tammy and Tonya, one day last week. They gave her a pretty table cloth for her kitchen table.

The Blessed Trinity Pastoral Council will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday evening at St. Joseph’s Hall.

Robin Hillen and Mary Ann Bailey attended a Celebration of Life for Elenore Robeen, Saturday. Our thoughts and prayers are with the family.

Life’s Highway My heavenly Father I am so amazed To see the beauty Thy hands have made.

Life’s winding roads Are filled with cares, But still I murmur My daily prayers.

I stop a moment Here and there Wish tender thoughts Of Thy loving care.

As I travel Down life’s highway.

– M.J. Cobia

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American Legion presents awards to local youth

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Abigail Johnes, daughter of Dennis and Jeanne Johnes, is congratulated by Commander Bernard Snyders on receiving the Brussels American Legion Award at the St. Mary’s School graduation.

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Lacy Pohlman, daughter of Greg and Susan Pohlman, received the honorable mention award from Commander Bernard Snyders at the St. Mary’s graduation.

Calhoun USPS calls on locals to secure dogs Did anyone bite you at work today? On average, nearly 15 mail carriers per day will say, “Yes.” Postal Service officials report that in 2020, over 5,800 letter carriers experienced dog bites or dog attacks. With deliveries every day, including Sundays and holidays, carriers continue to experience dog bites in urban, suburban and rural settings.

Dog attacks and bites are 100-percent preventable when dog owners remain vigilant and properly restrain their dogs.

To ensure mail carriers’ safety, dog owners must

securely lock their dog in another room until a delivery exchange is done. If a dog is outside, the dog must be leashed away from the mailbox.

When a carrier feels unsafe, mail service could be interrupted, not only for the dog owner, but for the entire neighborhood. When mail service is interrupted, mail must be picked up at the post office.

Service will not be restored until the dog is properly restrained.

With residents’ help, the United States Post Office can keep their carriers, neighbors and dogs safe.

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Matthew Kiel, son of Eric and Jennen Kiel, was awarded the Legion honorable mention at the junior high graduation at Brussels.

Olivia Brodbeck, daughter of Chad and Amanda Brodbeck, was congratulated with the Brussels American Legion award at the Brussels Grade School. Commander Bernard Snyders of Post 685 presented the award.

Summer (Continued from A1) “The site that they are working on for their field school happens to be here on the property of the McCully Heritage Project,” Vogel said.

The camps incorporate aspects of archeology, the wetlands, animal and forestry education. Other projects provide opportunities for adults and university students who are interested in nature or archeology. It is currently shiitake mushroom season, which is a long, laborious process McCully staff uses to educate visitors.

“We grow shiitake mushrooms in white oak logs. We do a workshop in the late winter to teach people how to do this,” Vogel said.

Those mushrooms bloom during the months of May through October. The trees they use to grow the mushrooms come from a necessary forest management process called Tree Stand Improvement (TSI).

“The trees get planted pretty close together, and as they get bigger, you actually have to thin some of those trees out, so the other trees around them can grow bigger and healthier,” Vogel explained.

This process also helps control invasive species.

The wetland environment has also changed in recent years because of new furry residents, providing a new opportunity for those who haven’t

visited recently to interact with nature. “[The wetlands] used to have all these walkways you could just walk out over top of the water,” Vogel said. “Then about two years ago, we had a beaver family move into the wetlands, and so now our walkways are flooded because the beavers are keeping the water levels up.”

Despite the controversy, this doesn’t seem to bother Vogel.

She sees it as an amazing opportunity to learn about the work of beavers.

“The really neat thing about beavers is that they are these habitat changers. They affect the environment… they change it for themselves but

then what it does, it changes it for all the other plants and animals,” Vogel explained.

“We’ve kind of sacrificed our walkways for nature.”

Visitors get the chance to view all the trees the beavers have been working on, the den where the beavers live and the dams the beavers built to keep water levels high, all up close and personal.

“This year we’ve had a lot of different bird species come through here that are stopping and actually using the wetlands,” Vogel added.

Flocks of Great White Herons and the threatened and endangered Osprey are utilizing the new habitat the beavers have created.

II auction in 2016, Illinois Electric Cooperative engineer Kurtis Weber and contractors designed a county-wide buildout plan for fiber internet.

In 2019, the co-op launched CalhounFiber.com to collect interest for fiber internet from residents in Calhoun County.

The website uses a platform called Crowdfiber, where they can gauge where within the county the most interest is. The county is divided up into 25 zones, and each zone has a specific number of sign-ups needed to greenlight construction.

Since, the goal has been to branch out from their main 56-mile fiber line going up and down the county and reaching homes.

It will still be some time before they reach Hardin, though. It was indicated to village officials that there are plans in the future to have in-

person events where people can get signed up for the service.

“It will be late fall, early winter before we see anything,” Hurley said. “The problem being they are having a hard time on the south end getting everything done in a timely manner because of the pandemic. Everything is on backorder.”

In the meeting, officials also tasked the village clerk, Hurley, with investigating the possibility of revitalizing the raft race from the ‘80s.

“There used to be a huge raft race down at the park, probably in the ‘80s. They discussed bringing it back, but no action was taken,” Hurley said.

Hurley brought up the possibility during the meeting, stirred by recent posts on social media about the event. “(I) had seen on Facebook in Memories of Calhoun, and

there were a couple of articles that popped up on the paper,” Hurley said.

The thought was that there could be some kayak or canoe race. The idea is being looked into further.

Also in the meeting, the board OK’d: Q Donating $2,500 to the community swimming pool in Hardin, which is normally done every year.

Q A series of ordinances regarding efforts in the village to establish a tax increment financing district. There is an application available now to participate in the TIF District program. People who would like to be part of that TIF or to apply for it, can come into the village hall or call the village’s attorney and get an application, and then the TIF committee will look over and give the recommendation to village leaders on that.

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(Continued from A1) That year, the FCC announced the Rural Broadband Experiment, which was a $100 million funded program that looked for rural areas in which they could establish and test new technologies, such as fiber internet, to better understand the technological divide faced by rural areas. The co-op applied for funding fiber internet in Calhoun County, but unfortunately, the co-op was not awarded a grant.

In 2016, the Connect America Funds (CAF) II auction was announced. This was a reverse auction where funds were distributed to internet service providers for broadband projects across the country. It was a two-year process that included conducting studies, doing groundwork, and preparing bids. The co-op made bids for blocks across our territory in 2018, but again, the co-op was not awarded funds for Calhoun County.

With co-op members in Calhoun at a technological disadvantage, Illinois Electric continued to look for opportunities to bring reliable, highspeed internet to the county.

One specific opportunity that was brought to their attention was the FCC’s E-Rate program. The E-Rate program’s goal is to bring affordable broadband to schools and libraries.

Calhoun and Brussels school districts each applied for E-Rate funding through the FCC and the Illinois State School Board of Education.

Both school systems were awarded funds, and Illinois Electric Cooperative was chosen as the contractor.

After a ground-breaking at Calhoun schools last fall, fiber internet became active at the schools in February of last year and at the Brussels schools in August.

Over the years, the co-op continued to work on ways to get fiber internet to its full membership in Calhoun.

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Q Snacks – Fruit Roll-Ups, fruit snacks, pudding cups, dried fruit, animal crackers, cheese and cracker packs, peanut butter cracker packs, beef jerky and goldfish crackers.

Currently, the focus is providing the program in the Calhoun Unit 40 school district, with a possibility to expand into Brussels.

“Right now, it’s just focusing on Calhoun Unit 40,” Klaas said. “If we are successful, and it goes above and beyond, I would like to reach out to Brussels also.”

Although the intent is to support the food insecure students, the hope is that the program

sees enough support to have meal bags for everyone.

“My ultimate goal would be just to be able to send a bag home with every kid at the school so that there is no stigma in receiving this bag,” Klaas said. “It is more of just an every weekday occurrence.

If I am not able to go that grand, I will definitely have a sign up sheet at registration (for school in July).”

Jen Fannings with the Calhoun Health Department has helped find a location to store the food safely before handing it to the students.

Also, Klaas noted she got support from those with the St. Vincent de Paul Society, with them spreading the word about the program. Maria Carmody actually pointed her to the location, Klaas said.

Those interested in helping with the program by volunteering or donating can contact Klaas at 618-946-9324 or email klaasgirls@gmail.com.

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Modern Woodmen donate to Calhoun Nursing and Rehab

Allen Johnson, activities coordinator with Modern Woodmen of America Chapter 1621, presents a check for $2,500 to those in the activities department at Calhoun Nursing and Rehab Center. The money was raised through a drive-thru dinner that took place April 14 at the Illinois Riverdock Restaurant in Hardin. The staff and owners of the Riverdock Restaurant helped to make the event a success, and the public showed up to help all the residents at the nursing home. Lea Miller, activities director at the center, indicated the money will really come at a good time as most of their resources have been used up keeping the residents busy and keeping things normal as much as possible during the pandemic.

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CALHOUN COUNCIL FOR SENIOR NEWS

Coming soon, the Calhoun County Senior Center will be open for lunch – tentatively in July 2021.

Business hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Lunch, Monday-Friday, 11 a.m. – noon: Curbside carry-outs only because of coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. For those over 60, donate what you can afford. For those under 60, you must pay $7, the full cost of the meal.

Thursday, June 17: Chicken & dumplings, steamed zucchini, confetti

corn, peaches and juice.

Friday, June 18: Spaghetti with meat sauce, pease & carrots, cauliflower and cinnamon applesauce.

Monday, June 21: Tuna noodle casserole, broccoli with cheese, succotash, cherry fluff and juice.

Tuesday, June 22: Honey glazed pork loin, creamed potatoes & peas, carrots and mixed fruit.

Wednesday, June 23: Country fried steak, mashed potatoes with gravy, green beans and ambrosia.

FOR IMMEDIATE KITCHEN OPENINGS

By Beverly Mosbarger The Calhoun County Senior Citizens Center can assist you with our Medicare D drug plans and can assist in getting a discounted license plate sticker. People can call 618-576-9567, and we will assist you in any way we can. Also, Tri County Rural Transit serves Calhoun County for those in need of a ride. They take one almost anywhere in the Calhoun, Jersey and Greene areas. Call 844-874-7433.

We would like to congratulate the Calhoun Lady Warriors softball team on a great season!

Looking back

(Continued from A3) 100 years ago June 16, 1921 Last Saturday was the day set by the Board of County Commissioners of Calhoun County to receive, open bids and award the contract for the grading and building of the 75 miles of a good hard road bed in Calhoun County.

This 75 miles of road bed constitutes the entire roadway in Calhoun County that is to be graded and placed in good condition with the $110,000 derived from the bonding of the county.

There were six bidding for the contract and it required close and hard figuring by the members of the board, assisted

by John Earley, Superintendent of Highways of Calhoun County, to determine which one of the six was the lowest bidder.

It was finally decided that John R. Scott of St. Louis was the lowest bidder and that the contract would be awarded to him.

It seems that Mr. Scott, in his bid, was considerably lower than the other five bidders, in the hauling of rock, and this, it

What’s Happening

Wednesday, June 16: Modern Woodmen of America Chapter 18050 Dinner, 4-7 p.m., at River Dock.

Wednesday, June 30: Modern Woodmen of America Chapter 12243 Dinner, 4-7 p.m. at River Dock.

Wednesday, July 7: Modern Woodmen of America Chapter 12243 Dinner, 4-7 p.m. at River Dock.

Wednesday, July 14: Modern Woodmen of America Chapter 1621 Dinner, 4-7 p.m., at Straight Home.

Wednesday, July 21: Modern Woodmen of America Chapter 18050 Dinner, 4-7 p.m., at River Dock.

PUBLIC NOTICE Notice of Proposed Tariff Changes Electric Service Schedule Ill. C. C. No. 1 To the Electric Patrons of Ameren Illinois Company d/b/a Ameren Illinois: Ameren Illinois (or the Company) hereby gives notice to the public that on May LW ¿OHG ZLWK WKH ,Olinois Commerce Commission (Commission) proposed changes in its rates and charges for approved EnHUJ\ (I¿FLHQF\ DQG 'HPDQG 5HVSRQVH 0HDVXUHV ('5

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is reported, is quite an item.

Work will begin just as soon as the successful bidder can get the necessary machinery with which to do the work, on the ground. It is thought that the work will start at the north line in the county.

The other bidders were: Tritt Bros., Belleville; C.T. Laird, New Canton; Louis Rich Construction Co., East St. Louis; Joice Cameron and Co., Keokuk; W.R. Phillips, Hamburg.

Mr. Phillips was the only

home man bidding and his figures were along with the other contestants.

The News is glad that the good roads questions in the county is at last focused and that we are going to be pulled out of the mud.

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Live Onsite Auction Personal Property Auction of The Estate of George & Irma Kuhn Antiques, Furniture, Household, & Tractor When: Sat. June 26th, 2021 @ 9:30 A.M. Location: In Calhoun County Il., 192 Cove Rd. Golden Eagle, Il 62036: From Brussels, Il go 2 Mi. Turn on to Auger Landing Rd. go 4 mi. turn Left on to Cove Rd. (watch for signs) Contact Terry @ 618-396-2563

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS The Village of Hamburg, IL is requesting bids for an asbestos inspection and documentation for seven residential homes/buildings in the Village of Hamburg, IL. These properties may be included LQ WKH ,OOLQRLV 'HSDUWPHQW RI 1DWXUDO 5HVRXUFHV ÀRRG EX\ RXW SURgram. Bidder packets are located on Village of Hamburg website, www.hamburgillinois.com under messages tab or via electronic request to hamburgclerk@frontier.com. The deadline for submission of bids is 4:00 PM on Monday, August 02, 2021 to the Village Clerk.

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GENERAL INFORMATION

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Responsibility is limited to the cost the space error occupies in the ad. All transactions under $50 must be paid in advance. Proper identification of the person placing the ad is required. The Calhoun News-Herald reserves the right to reject or edit any advertisement submitted for publication.

DEADLINES: Society-weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, engagements, noon Monday; Classified ads, 3 p.m. Monday; Display advertising, 5 p.m. Monday. We reserve the right to reject any photo that will not reproduce clearly.

PHOTO REPRINTS: 5x7-$9.00; 8x10-$10.00.

ADVERTISING RATE:

$11.95 per column inch.

Example: 1 column by 3 inches would be 3 col. inches x $11.95 = $35.85 For more information about display rates, quantity discounts and insert rates, contact the Calhoun News-Herald at 618-498-1234.

CARDS OF THANKS, MEMORIALS: $8.00 minimum; 25¢ per word after 65 words, pre-paid.

SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $31 per year in Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Greene, Jersey, Macoupin, Madison, Morgan, Pike and Scott Counties, IL and Lincoln, Pike and Ralls Counties, MO. $62 per year elsewhere. $90 per year outside the continental United States.

COLLEGE RATES: $27 nine months in Illinois. $36 nine months elsewhere.

TO MAIL A SINGLE ISSUE: $4.

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HELP WANTED HELP WANTED LMS TRUCKING, LLC. 850 BLUE STREET MILTON IL 62352. LOCAL LIVESTOCK HAULER OR OWNER OPERATOR WANTED. Load times vary - usually no weekend loads. TQA CERTIFICATION REQUIRED, Preemployment drug/ alcohol screening required. INTERESTED INQUIRIES PLEASE CALL: 217-723-4359 OR 217248-2398. 6.16.21 HELP WANTED: Mt. Gilead Shelter Care, Day Shift 8-4, P/T Day and P/T midnight 12-8. Call Mt. Gilead 217-942-5362. Ask for LuAnn or Kathy. 6.30.21 PITTSFIELD MACHINE in Payson IL is looking for production workers. We are looking for full time and part time employees.

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Good wages. Call 573-356-0267.

900A-NO TRESPASSING CALHOUN COUNTY

NO TRESPASSING or hunting allowed on the land in Batchtown owned by Steve and Cindy Meszaros. Violators will be prosecuted. 9.8.21 NO TRESPASSING or hunting allowed on the land in Batchtown owned by Marcy Klockenkemper, Judy Lamer, Jeremy Russell, Bonnie Stepanek and Cindy Mezzos. Violators will be prosecuted.

9.8.21

NO TRESPASSING of any kind is permitted on the Kim Kamp and Joe Stelbrink farm located on Summit Grove Rd., Kampsville.

Violators will be prosecuted. 8.26.21 900D-NO TRESPASSING PIKE COUNTY

MAYFAIR FARMS ground North of Kinderhook, west of 205th St. is private property. Trespassing is forbidden. Violators will be prosecuted.

1.5.22

NO TRESPASSING or hunting of any kind of properties owned by 6.23.21 Nick and Margaret Voke, Old Pearl, IL. Violators will be prosecuted. 3.24.22 900A-NO TRESPASSING NO HUNTING or fishing on the CALHOUN COUNTY Swanson Ransom farm located in NO TRESPASSING on William and Hardin & Martinsburg Townships.

Geraldine Schleeper Farms. 6.9.21 Violators will be prosecuted. 4.20.22

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AUCTIONS Large Estate Live Auction The following items from the Estate of Jackie Rudolph will be sold at public auction Saturday June 26, 2021 at 9:30 am located 7 miles south of Jerseyville, Illinois on Rt. 109 to Rt. 3 then southwest 5 miles to 21024 State Hwy 3 Grafton, Illinois or from Grafton, Illinois go northeast 3 miles on Rt. 3 to 21024 State Hwy 3 Grafton, Illinois. Watch for signs!!

Lot of Cub Cadet Mowers, Hit & Miss Motors, Tools, Trailers, Antiques & Collectables.

Auctioneers Note: Jackie was an avid collector most of his life. This is only a partial listing of items that will be sold.This is a large auction and we will be running two sale rings part of the day!!!

Large collection of toy trucks, cars & motorcycles some NIB, Large collection of spark plugs, Old spark plug tester, Large collection of advertising tire ashtrays, 8“ glass funnel & old horse clocks, Horse collar w/mirror, Wooden slaw cutter, Lot of stoneware & hand crank coffee grinder, Cast iron pot w/lid, Edison Fireside Phonograph no horn, Old Flexible & Fleetwing Top Flash wooden sleds, Antique glasses, Christmas decorations, Blow torches & old fans, Featherlight portable sewing machine, Wards combination treadle & electric sewing machine, Brother & Montgomery Ward sewing machines, Marlin Special Smokeless Steel 12ga, 2000 Southwest Express 16 ft.tandem axle Display trailer, 16ft. tandem axle utility trailer, 1984 12ft. Homemade single axle trailer, Fuller & Johnson Hit & Miss engine, Economy Hit & Miss engine, Witte Hit & Miss engine, Cushman Hit & Miss engine, StoverHit & Miss engine, Twin Disc PTO clutch, (2) new 4 cyl. Military engines, Unusual push plow & planter, Very large collection hand crank grinders, old wooden sleds & RR steel wheel cart, Gibson H Jr Pedal tractor, (2) Hapgood cast iron seats, Corn sheller & corn chopper grinder, Cub Cadet 72, 100, 124 & IH Cub riding mowers, Cub Cadet 85, 102, 106, 122, 125 & 1100 riding mower, MF 8 & Ford LGT riding mowers, Cub Cadet front blades & plows, Lot of Cub Cadet, MF, & etc. body & engine parts, Lot of engines & parts of all kinds, Limited LTD forced air wood furnace, Troy Bilt Pony Tiller, Kohler generator for parts, Several old engines some w/hand clutch, Lots & lots of small engines, Lawn mower lift, Transmission jack, Several old Maytag washing machines & wash tubs, Several lawn carts & roller, Charge Air Pro upright 80 gal. Air compressor, Belt drive presses, steel wheel carts & steel tables, Concrete mixer, wheel barrow, shallow well pumps, Wood carpenters box, extension cords, ladder jacks, Portable air compressor, jump starts, log chains & binders, Snap-On, Craftsman & other tools, Craftsman stack tool box, Lot of vises, pitcher pumps, chain saws, Lot of air & electric tools, Lot of garden tools of all kinds, Lawn spreader, shop vac, scroll saws, Cyclone air Bead Blaster, Bench grinders, drill presses, battery chargers, Lincoln 225 welder, Cutting torch set w/bottles, Lawson bolt bin w/ bolts, Air hose reel, chop saw, Lot of screws, bolts, nails & etc, Lot of drill bits, clamps, gas cans, pipe wrenches, electric tools & etc. Lots & lots of hand tools, wrenches, sockets & etc, Lot of rachet straps, saws, primitives, Several steel & wood work benches, Old well pumps, sawmill blades, weed eaters, Lot of push & riding mowers and parts, Lot of very unusual items of all kinds.

Terms: Cash or check with 2 Id‘s. No ID No number. Announcements sale day take precedence over all printed matter. Lunch will be served. For more information contact auctioneer at 217-242-1709.

Seller: Estate of Jackie Rudolph - 21024 State Hwy 3, Grafton, Illinois

Reeves Auction Service 26878 McClusky Road - Dow, Illinois 62022

This Day In History June 16

- Rome was sacked by the Vandal army.

- The War of the Roses ended with the Battle of Stoke.

- The Simonstown agreement on naval cooperation between Britain and South Africa - The ban on Nazi storm ended. The agreement was fortroopers was lifted by the von Pa- mally ended by mutual agreement after 169 years. pen government in Germany.

- France accepted a German proposal for a security pact.

- Mary, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned in Lochleven Castle in Scotland.

- Marshal Henri-Philippe Petain became the prime minister of the Vichy government of occupied - Napoleon defeated the France.

Prussians at the Battle of Ligny, - U.S. President Franklin D. Netherlands.

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America opened.

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- The U.S. House of Representatives voted to extend Selective Service until 1959.

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Juan Peron’s headquarters. The - Ford Motor Company was revolt was suppressed by the army. incorporated.

- Rudolf Nureyev defected - The novel “Ulysses” by from the Soviet Union while in James Joyce took place. The Paris, traveling with the Leningrad main character of the book was Kirov Ballet.

Leopold Bloom.

- 26-year-old Valentina - The Russian czar dissolved Tereshkova went into orbit aboard the Vostok 6 spacecraft for three the Duma in St. Petersburg.

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- In Soweto, thousands of school children revolted against the South African government’s plan to enforce Afrikaans as the language for instruction in black schools.

- U.S. President George H.W. Bush welcomed Russian President Boris Yeltsin to a meeting in Washington, DC. The two agreed in principle to reduce strategic weapon arsenals by about two-thirds by the year 2003.

- The U.S. Postal Service released a set of seven stamps that featured Bill Haley, Buddy Holly, Clyde McPhatter, Otis Redding, Ritchie Valens, Dinah - Leonid Brezhnev was Washington and Elvis Presley. named the first Soviet president of the USSR. He was the - Russian voters had their first person to hold the post of first independent presidential president and Communist Party election. Boris Yeltsin was the General Secretary. He replaced winner after a run-off.

Nikolai Podgorny.

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Wednesday, June 16, 2021

TRI-COUNTY REAL ESTATE TOUR

Communication grant for Jersey sheriff’s office to benefit Calhoun where deputies aren’t getting good reception to holler for help,” Ringhausen said. “If [neighboring law enforcement agencies] get in a car chase, we may not even know they’re coming this way. If they’ve hollered for help, we don’t know it.

Going digital brings us a safer line of communication with our surrounding agencies.”

Calhoun and Greene counties are already equipped with digital technology, but with Jersey County lagging behind with its current analog system, it makes communication between the departments difficult.

This poses a significant problem to law enforcement, not only for their safety, but for assistance in the rural regions of the Tri-County area, as Jersey County’s current analog system also limits the amount of radio coverage that exists in the border areas of the county.

Currently, dead space is found in various areas scattered in the Delhi-Brighton region in the southeast end of the county, as well as around the Medora-Kemper area near the Greene-Jersey county line.

There is also a concerning amount of dead space in the northwestern portion of Jersey County around the area encompassing Fieldon, Spankey and Reddish Ford.

This area, in particular, is of pressing interest because roads in the area connect between all three counties.

According to data that was collected for the grant, the equipment upgrades to the five towers in and around the county will potentially remove much of the dead

By CONNOR ASHLOCK Calhoun News-Herald Sheriff Mike Ringhausen has announced that the Jersey County Sheriff’s Office has received a $150,000 grant through the help of Representative CD Davidsmeyer ’s (R-Jacksonville) office that will aid in upgrading telecommunication devices used by dispatchers and law enforcement from an analog system to a more effective digital system.

Funding for the grant comes from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity and is expected to benefit not only Jersey County, but Greene and Calhoun counties as a result.

According to Ringhausen, a significant amount of funds will go toward upgrading radio towers in and around Jersey County, as well as other towers that have radio equipment installed on them.

There are currently two radio towers in Jersey County that the sheriff’s office relies on for radio reception, the tower located in the parking lot on the west side of the Jersey County Courthouse and the tower located in the vicinity of Pere Marquette State Park.

Additionally, three other towers are equipped with radio equipment suited for the analog system that will be replaced thanks to the grant, namely the Medora water tower, a tower located at Principia College and the Hardin tower located on Rocky Hill in Calhoun County.

“It will greatly reduce the amount of dead space

space that exists under the analog system, and not only dead space in Jersey County, but dead space in Calhoun, Greene and even Madison counties as well.

More specifically, the new towers are expected to remove a significant amount of dead space in west-central and southwestern portions of Calhoun County, particularly around the area encompassing the communities of Gilead, Batchtown, Beechville and Golden Eagle.

Portions of the northcentral region of Calhoun County will also be somewhat improved.

Major improvement is expected to occur throughout the entire southern half of Greene County below Apple Creek, including the areas surrounding Rockbridge, Kane, Woody, Carrollton and Eldred.

Ringhausen expressed that he is very excited for these changes to come and hope that they will impact not only Jersey County, but the whole region for the better.

“We’ll have the same radio network as other counties, so it will be better to communicate with them in areas that are detrimental to law and life,” Ringhausen said.

Ringhausen reported that he is especially excited for the increase in safety this will potentially provide for deputies.

“It will help with communication in that if they need help, they’ll be able to get it out better,” Ringhausen said.

3049 Godfrey Rd. Godfrey, IL 62035 Phone: 618.466.1513 www.godfreylandmark.com 148 Hunters Hollow, Collinsville - $45,000 3BR/2BA mobile home also includes living, dining, and family rooms.

Situated in beautiful, well cared for park.

Jackie Sumpter 910-7761

15529 Bunse Way, Jerseyville - $575,000 THIS CUSTOM BUILT LOG HOME includes 3BR/4BA, is SITUATED ON 25.86 ACRE LOT SITE. Matt Horn 560-8201

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RESIDENTIAL LOTS Legacy Estates, Jerseyville -$11,500 Want to build your own home in an area that is close to the City Park with a country feel, but on the edge of the city limits?

Pick your lot! Prices starting at $11,500.

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In the past, we have built within a 100 mile radius solar system! It can enable you to have net zero energy granite countertops.

Wonderful Builder of our location in Bethalto, Illinois.landscaping.

We will custom build granite countertops.

Wonderful landscaping.

Builder by producing your own power. Wooded 1 acre lots for you in our subdivisions or off-site on your own lot/land. will be 1 acre lots available in this will beanpresent. present.

Wooded acre lots available inyour this available in this Wooded subdivision or we build Make investment in your1future.

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of Jesus, pray for us. St. Jude, worker of miracles, pray for us. St. Jude, helper of helpless, pray for us. Thank you, St. Jude KS

Paslay, Realtors

15281 IL 109, Dow - $695,000 Are you ready to be your own boss? Over 10,000 sq ft under roof is currently set up to be a banquet center, restaurant. The opportunities are endless.

Mindy Woelfel 946-0434

15 ACRE +/6200 Pierce, Godfrey - $450,000 2BR/2BA brick ranch home multiple garages, barn, pond, and more.

Becky McGowen 570-9375

Looking to sell your home?

LIST WITH A LEADER!

SALES STAFF Nate Sagez .................................................618-980-9664 Chris Nichols ..............................................217-473-3777 Nikki Fish ....................................................217-371-2858 Cyndi Borrowman Kamp ............................217-779-1861 Sonya Little .................................................217-653-2943 Richard Smith .............................................217-473-3286 Roger Hall ...................................................217-248-0231 Tere Boes ....................................................217-491-2267 Ryan Bland .................................................618-535-5611 Chris Little...................................................217-653-3697 Stacey Wallendorf ......................................618-946-0001 Elaine Smith ................................................217-473-3288 Jason Duke .................................................217-430-2985 Todd Smith..................................................217-285-4720 Caleb Goode ...............................................314-575-2721 Lacey Hoagland..........................................618-535-3800 Gary Nation .................................................217-242-7786 Robert Evans ..............................................217-491-2391 Terri Robbins...............................................217-335-2247 Alex Reel .....................................................217-257-4944 Misha Ehlert ................................................217-779-2037

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1213 POOR FARM HOLLOW, HARDIN 92 ACRES $420,000

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MOWEN LANE, FIELDON $59,000

207 TEMPERANCE ST., PLEASANT HILL 2 BED-2 BATH $92,000

3772 BELLVIEW HOLLOW RD., NEBO $55,000

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219 DOGTOWN ROAD, BATCHTOWN $350,000

108 NORTH MAIN ST., PLEASANT HILL 3 BED-1.5 BATH $72,500

NEW STATE HWY 96, MOZIER 19.8 ACRE DUCK LAKE! $84,000

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307 EAST MOZIER, PLEASANT HILL, IL $65,000

1201 INFIDEL HOLLOW ROAD, MOZIER, IL - 213 ACRES

$1,100,000

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45950 185TH AVENUE, PEARL 4 BED-2 BATH $194,900

109 HANKS LANE, HARDIN HOME AND 5 ACRES $265,000

11495 STATE HIGHWAY 100, KAMPSVILLE 1 BED-0 BATH $45,000

*

217 S. ILLINOIS ST., PITTSFIELD LOT $11,500 259 KINTOWN HOLLOW RD., HARDIN 3.41 ACRES $23,870

SOLD

208 BATCHTOWN RD, BATCHTOWN, IL COMMERCIAL $135,000

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1 N. MISSISSIPPI RIVER RD., BATCHTOWN HOME AND 5 ACRES $480,000

401 DAVIS ST., HARDIN, IL 3 BED-2 BATH $66,000

2251 PLUMMER HILL RD., HARDIN LOT 13 $30,520

2070 PLUMMER HILL RD. HARDIN 7.13 ACRES -LOT $49,910

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REDUCED 1 LIM LONG, NEBO, IL 110 ACRES $462,000

206 FRANKLIN ST, HARDIN 4 BED-2.5 BATH $96,000

2144 PLUMMER HILL RD., HARDIN 9.57 Acres $66,990

2388 PLUMMER HILL RD., HARDIN LOT 6 $44,170

10565 STATE HIGHWAY 100, PEARL, IL 73 ACRES

$330,000

NEWS/SOCIAL/REAL ESTATE

Calhoun News-Herald

Wednesday, June 16, 2021

TRI-COUNTY REAL ESTATE TOUR

Communication grant for Jersey sheriff’s office to benefit Calhoun where deputies aren’t getting good reception to holler for help,” Ringhausen said. “If [neighboring law enforcement agencies] get in a car chase, we may not even know they’re coming this way. If they’ve hollered for help, we don’t know it.

Going digital brings us a safer line of communication with our surrounding agencies.”

Calhoun and Greene counties are already equipped with digital technology, but with Jersey County lagging behind with its current analog system, it makes communication between the departments difficult.

This poses a significant problem to law enforcement, not only for their safety, but for assistance in the rural regions of the Tri-County area, as Jersey County’s current analog system also limits the amount of radio coverage that exists in the border areas of the county.

Currently, dead space is found in various areas scattered in the Delhi-Brighton region in the southeast end of the county, as well as around the Medora-Kemper area near the Greene-Jersey county line.

There is also a concerning amount of dead space in the northwestern portion of Jersey County around the area encompassing Fieldon, Spankey and Reddish Ford.

This area, in particular, is of pressing interest because roads in the area connect between all three counties.

According to data that was collected for the grant, the equipment upgrades to the five towers in and around the county will potentially remove much of the dead

By CONNOR ASHLOCK Calhoun News-Herald Sheriff Mike Ringhausen has announced that the Jersey County Sheriff’s Office has received a $150,000 grant through the help of Representative CD Davidsmeyer ’s (R-Jacksonville) office that will aid in upgrading telecommunication devices used by dispatchers and law enforcement from an analog system to a more effective digital system.

Funding for the grant comes from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity and is expected to benefit not only Jersey County, but Greene and Calhoun counties as a result.

According to Ringhausen, a significant amount of funds will go toward upgrading radio towers in and around Jersey County, as well as other towers that have radio equipment installed on them.

There are currently two radio towers in Jersey County that the sheriff’s office relies on for radio reception, the tower located in the parking lot on the west side of the Jersey County Courthouse and the tower located in the vicinity of Pere Marquette State Park.

Additionally, three other towers are equipped with radio equipment suited for the analog system that will be replaced thanks to the grant, namely the Medora water tower, a tower located at Principia College and the Hardin tower located on Rocky Hill in Calhoun County.

“It will greatly reduce the amount of dead space

space that exists under the analog system, and not only dead space in Jersey County, but dead space in Calhoun, Greene and even Madison counties as well.

More specifically, the new towers are expected to remove a significant amount of dead space in west-central and southwestern portions of Calhoun County, particularly around the area encompassing the communities of Gilead, Batchtown, Beechville and Golden Eagle.

Portions of the northcentral region of Calhoun County will also be somewhat improved.

Major improvement is expected to occur throughout the entire southern half of Greene County below Apple Creek, including the areas surrounding Rockbridge, Kane, Woody, Carrollton and Eldred.

Ringhausen expressed that he is very excited for these changes to come and hope that they will impact not only Jersey County, but the whole region for the better.

“We’ll have the same radio network as other counties, so it will be better to communicate with them in areas that are detrimental to law and life,” Ringhausen said.

Ringhausen reported that he is especially excited for the increase in safety this will potentially provide for deputies.

“It will help with communication in that if they need help, they’ll be able to get it out better,” Ringhausen said.

3049 Godfrey Rd. Godfrey, IL 62035 Phone: 618.466.1513 www.godfreylandmark.com 148 Hunters Hollow, Collinsville - $45,000 3BR/2BA mobile home also includes living, dining, and family rooms.

Situated in beautiful, well cared for park.

Jackie Sumpter 910-7761

15529 Bunse Way, Jerseyville - $575,000 THIS CUSTOM BUILT LOG HOME includes 3BR/4BA, is SITUATED ON 25.86 ACRE LOT SITE. Matt Horn 560-8201

EW E N RIC P

RESIDENTIAL LOTS Legacy Estates, Jerseyville -$11,500 Want to build your own home in an area that is close to the City Park with a country feel, but on the edge of the city limits?

Pick your lot! Prices starting at $11,500.

Mindy Woelfel 946-0434

COMMERCIAL

OPEN HOUSE Open Sunday 12pm OPEN HOUSE Open House House Sunday 12pm -- 4pm 5pm 3UNDAY s PM PM 25726 Walnut 3UNDAY *UNE TH s PM 25726 Walnut Creek Creek Dr., Dr., Dow, Dow, IlIl 62022 62022 7ALNUT #REEK $R $OW )L 25726 Walnut Creek Dr., Dow, Il 62022 Eagle Crossings %AGLE #ROSSINGS 3UBDIVISION Eagle Crossings Subdivision Subdivision

(Eagle Crossings Subdivision) Stop by display home.

We can Stop our newest newest Sunday 4.

Stop bybyour our newest display displayhome home.

We 12 canto start start planning your dream home today!

This home includes Welcome to Ralph G. Paslay Custom Homes where you Have you been wanting to build your dream home?

Come planning your dream home today! This home includes never paywith extra for quality. We have been building custom see us your plans/ideas/wish lists.

You will also 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, full walkout finished 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, fullJersey walkout finished homes in the Macoupin, and counties since want to be4Madison, sure to check out our latest Photovoltaic basement, season room, stainless steel appliances, basement, 4 season room, stainless steel appliances, 1984.

In the past, we have built within a 100 mile radius solar system! It can enable you to have net zero energy granite countertops.

Wonderful Builder of our location in Bethalto, Illinois.landscaping.

We will custom build granite countertops.

Wonderful landscaping.

Builder by producing your own power. Wooded 1 acre lots for you in our subdivisions or off-site on your own lot/land. will be 1 acre lots available in this will beanpresent. present.

Wooded acre lots available inyour this available in this Wooded subdivision or we build Make investment in your1future.

Wecan can starton planning land.

Let’s get started making your dreams come true!! subdivision or we can build on your land. subdivision or we can build on your land. your dream home today!

Host:Ralph Ralph Paslay(618) 618-531-3377 Paslay 531-3377 Host: Host: Ralph Paslay 618-531-3377

St. Jude Novena May the sacred heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved and preserved, throughout the world now and forever. Sacred heart

A9

Hardin, Illinois

of Jesus, pray for us. St. Jude, worker of miracles, pray for us. St. Jude, helper of helpless, pray for us. Thank you, St. Jude KS

Paslay, Realtors

15281 IL 109, Dow - $695,000 Are you ready to be your own boss? Over 10,000 sq ft under roof is currently set up to be a banquet center, restaurant. The opportunities are endless.

Mindy Woelfel 946-0434

15 ACRE +/6200 Pierce, Godfrey - $450,000 2BR/2BA brick ranch home multiple garages, barn, pond, and more.

Becky McGowen 570-9375

Looking to sell your home?

LIST WITH A LEADER!

SALES STAFF Nate Sagez .................................................618-980-9664 Chris Nichols ..............................................217-473-3777 Nikki Fish ....................................................217-371-2858 Cyndi Borrowman Kamp ............................217-779-1861 Sonya Little .................................................217-653-2943 Richard Smith .............................................217-473-3286 Roger Hall ...................................................217-248-0231 Tere Boes ....................................................217-491-2267 Ryan Bland .................................................618-535-5611 Chris Little...................................................217-653-3697 Stacey Wallendorf ......................................618-946-0001 Elaine Smith ................................................217-473-3288 Jason Duke .................................................217-430-2985 Todd Smith..................................................217-285-4720 Caleb Goode ...............................................314-575-2721 Lacey Hoagland..........................................618-535-3800 Gary Nation .................................................217-242-7786 Robert Evans ..............................................217-491-2391 Terri Robbins...............................................217-335-2247 Alex Reel .....................................................217-257-4944 Misha Ehlert ................................................217-779-2037

Ó£Ó Ê °Ê*>À Ê-Ì°ÊUÊ >À`

618-576-2203 ££ÈÊ7°Ê7>à }Ì Ê-Ì°Ê Ê* ÌÌÃwi `]Ê

217-285-5800 For additional properties, see us at

ÜÜÜ°«VÀiÀi> iÃÌ>Ìi°V

*

NEW 7856 STATE HWY 96, MOZIER $65,000

1213 POOR FARM HOLLOW, HARDIN 92 ACRES $420,000

*

MOWEN LANE, FIELDON $59,000

207 TEMPERANCE ST., PLEASANT HILL 2 BED-2 BATH $92,000

3772 BELLVIEW HOLLOW RD., NEBO $55,000

*

219 DOGTOWN ROAD, BATCHTOWN $350,000

108 NORTH MAIN ST., PLEASANT HILL 3 BED-1.5 BATH $72,500

NEW STATE HWY 96, MOZIER 19.8 ACRE DUCK LAKE! $84,000

*

307 EAST MOZIER, PLEASANT HILL, IL $65,000

1201 INFIDEL HOLLOW ROAD, MOZIER, IL - 213 ACRES

$1,100,000

*

*

45950 185TH AVENUE, PEARL 4 BED-2 BATH $194,900

109 HANKS LANE, HARDIN HOME AND 5 ACRES $265,000

11495 STATE HIGHWAY 100, KAMPSVILLE 1 BED-0 BATH $45,000

*

217 S. ILLINOIS ST., PITTSFIELD LOT $11,500 259 KINTOWN HOLLOW RD., HARDIN 3.41 ACRES $23,870

SOLD

208 BATCHTOWN RD, BATCHTOWN, IL COMMERCIAL $135,000

*

*

1 N. MISSISSIPPI RIVER RD., BATCHTOWN HOME AND 5 ACRES $480,000

401 DAVIS ST., HARDIN, IL 3 BED-2 BATH $66,000

2251 PLUMMER HILL RD., HARDIN LOT 13 $30,520

2070 PLUMMER HILL RD. HARDIN 7.13 ACRES -LOT $49,910

*

REDUCED 1 LIM LONG, NEBO, IL 110 ACRES $462,000

206 FRANKLIN ST, HARDIN 4 BED-2.5 BATH $96,000

2144 PLUMMER HILL RD., HARDIN 9.57 Acres $66,990

2388 PLUMMER HILL RD., HARDIN LOT 6 $44,170

10565 STATE HIGHWAY 100, PEARL, IL 73 ACRES

$330,000

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Calhoun News-Herald

Hardin, Illinois

Greene County Agricultural Fair

Open Sheep Show June 21, 2021

Grand Champion Ewe $125 Reserve Grand Champion Ewe $50 Grand Champion Ram $125 Reserve Grand Champion Ram $50 Grand Champion Wether $125 Reserve Grand Champion Wether $50

Open Beef Show June 24, 2021

Grand Champion Heifer $400 Reserve Grand Champion Heifer $100 Grand Champion Steer $400 Reserve Grand Champion Steer $100 Grand Champion Bull $150 Reserve Grand Champion Bull $50

Open Swine Show June 24, 2021

Grand Champion Barrow $250 Reserve Grand Champion Barrow $125 Grand Champion Gilt $250 Reserve Grand Champion Gilt $125

Open Goat Show June 25, 2021

Meat Champion $100 Market Doe Champion $75