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Wide receiver Erik Lora traveled to Nashville, Tenn. to receive honors as the OVC Male Athlete of the Year this past Friday.

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Studying close to home Faculty and administrators represent Eastern in St. Louis at annual international conference by Robyn Dexter @robyn_dexter

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Blair Lord, the provost and vice president for academic affairs; Kelly Holland, the director of study abroad and Kevin Vickers, the director of the Office of International Students and Scholars stand outside a poster introducing the St. Louis conference from May 26-31.

Members of the Eastern community ventured to St. Louis last week for the annual National Association of Foreign Student Advisers conference. Three staff members from the Office of Study Abroad, Kelly Holland, Sarah Grandstaff and Sara Boro, joined with Kevin Vickers from the Office of International Students and Scholars and Provost Blair Lord to attend the 65th annual conference. Holland, the director of study abroad, said she and Boro presented in a poster fair Wednesday. “Poster fairs are set up kind of in a similar fashion to an undergraduate research fair,” she said. Holland and Boro participated with a hard copy of a poster regarding enhancing learning before, during and after studying abroad. “ We talked about the Study Abroad Society, which is our registered student organization,” she said. “Turns out, that’s not really common at other schools (to have a study abroad RSO).” Holland also gave a presentation in the technology fair Friday with information about Hootsuite, a social media management system. “We set up a laptop, and I talked about how we use it in our office,” she said. “There were about 20 other people set up talking about dif-

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ferent uses of social media and education abroad.” Holland and Vickers were able to sit down with some of Eastern’s partners in international education from countries such as Germany, Australia and South Korea. “It’s one of the only times of the year we get to actually meet some of the people we work with,” she said. “All those emails back and forth across the pond, and then you finally get to meet them in person.” Holland said the conference is an ideal networking opportunity for all people who attend. The NAFSA conference brought together more than 8,000 administrators, presidents, faculty and staff to exchange ideas and programming schedules. “It’s not just U.S. organizations who are sending students out — it’s also organizations throughout the world who are bringing American students in,” Holland said. Vickers, the director of OISS, said he met with the university’s partners and consultants that he works with around the world. “I did a lot of networking,” he said. “I also attended sessions on the best practices in the areas of international recruiting and partnership agreements with other universities.” While Holland and Vickers attended sessions and met with partner schools, Blair Lord, the provost and vice president for academic affairs, went to sessions designated for

presidents and vice presidents in international education. Lord said he was in St. Louis Wednesday and Thursday, where he went to a special program for presidents and other representatives about how to internationalize campuses and curriculum. “We had a dinner and a representative from the World Bank talking about Spanish-speaking countries and their importance,” Lord said. “It was extremely interesting.” Lord said there were about 35 presidents from all over the world, and he had the chance to talk to officials from countries like Turkey and Peru. Holland, Vickers and Lord all said they took different aspects away from the conference. Lord said he learned about building international aspects into the tenure process. “Everyone had some very different ideas,” he said. “I was fascinated by the Arab world and the South American culture.” Vickers said he enjoys going to these conferences because of the different kinds of people he has the chance to meet. “You can learn a lot and do your homework in terms of what works and what doesn’t,” he said. “You can pretty much strike up a conversation with anyone there because we all work in similar fields.”

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First Mid branch to close June 28 Council to approve waste plant cleanup By Marcus Smith @ma_masmith

The Martin Luther King Jr. University Union branch of First MidIllinois Bank & Trust is being closed June 28 so more services can be offered to Eastern students at the two other branches here in Charleston. Mandy Lewis, vice president of marketing, said the administrators at First Mid had been considering what to do with the Union branch for some time. “We have been looking at the EIU banking center for a little bit of time now,” she said “And it’s one of those things when we look at it and evaluate it, it’s a win-win for us.” Lewis said there are two branches in town, one at 500 West Lincoln Ave. and one at 701 Sixth St., and both are still located close to campus and offer more services than the Union branch offers. “It’s a good opportunity to be

able to move those customers to facilities that are better able to suit their needs,” Lewis said. William Weber, vice president of business affairs, said the closing of the Union branch will have little effect on Eastern. “I don’t see any major impact on the campus overall,” Weber said. Weber said there will be a small adjustment period, but the transition will be a minor change. He said he does not know yet what may go in to replace First Mid-Illinois, but it will be the decision of the student affairs office. Dan Nadler, vice president for student affairs, could not be reached for comment. Lewis said the Lincoln branch is close to a Panther Shuttle stop, along with online and mobile banking options, and the inconvenience should be minimal. “A lot of our customers aren’t coming to the branches as much as they used to in the past,” she said.

Lewis said customers that need to deposit checks have the option of going to one of the branches or using one of the ATMs that accept deposits. Weber also said there is greater use of online banking by people in general nowadays. “These days many people, not just students, handle most of their banking needs electronically,” Weber said. Lewis said the employees at the Union branch will be transitioned to other locations and most of the part-time student employees were not going to be returning. “We truly value our relationship with Eastern and we look forward to continuing to serve the needs of our customers, whether that is the staff, faculty or the students,” Lewis said. Marcus Smith can be reached at 581-2812 or masmith6@eiu.edu.

By Amanda Wilkinson @akaywilkinson The Charleston City Council will be voting on moving into phase II of cleaning up the old wastewater treatment plant on F Street Tuesday. The meeting will be hosted at 7:30 p.m. in the council chambers of City Hall, 520 Jackson Ave. Mayor Larry Rennels said the old plant was abandoned in the 1970s when the new wastewater treatment plant on West Madison Avenue was built. “They quit using that old one, and then they used that property as the police department’s firing range,” he said. Rennels said both the fire and police departments have training facilities off the old plant property. “We just need to clean it up,” he said. “We need to get rid of all the

remnants of the wastewater treatment plant. It’s something that’s been sitting there for a long time. There’s a lot of stuff back there. We don’t even know for sure what all it’s going to take to clean it up.” The city started the process about a year ago and it will take a while to complete, Rennels said. The city will hire Shaw Environmental for evaluating the property and cleanup for about $45,000. “We’re probably going to see if we can get some help from other sources to pay for it because it’s an expensive process,” Rennels said. The council will also be voting on Tax Increment Financing grants for the Sensible Rehabilitation program. Rennels said the area around the Square has been designated as the TIF district. PLANT, page 5

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After being cooped up at night for a couple weeks, Borah decided to learn the art of traditional Indian henna and ink tattooing. Borah went to a local tattoo shop, True Tattoo, and asked to apprentice with the owner, who said yes. “I would go to the shop three times a week for a couple hours to practice tattoo for a little bit and practice henna for a little bit,” she said. Borah paid the shop owner for classes and also cleaned up around the shop. Borah has practiced traditional Indian henna for so long that she can freehand designs straight onto the body without templates. The design process is taking different Indian elements and putting it together, Borah said. “In India, animals are really important but for henna designs they mostly put in peacocks because they are royal and are the bird of India,” Borah said. Now that Borah is back in the states, she cannot keep tattooing because she is not certified but will continue to henna. In India tattoo artists do not have to be certified to tattoo people but Borah hopes to get certified to tattoo in the U.S. after graduating college. Cayla Maurer can be reached at 581-2812 or ccmaurer@eiu.edu.

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Meg Borah, a junior art major, traveled to India last year where she learned the art of traditional Indian henna tattooing. She said she went to India to teach English to underprivileged children.

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Energy center to open for tour Staff Report @den_news On Tuesday, an inside look at Eastern’s Renewable Energy Center will be available to anyone interested. The School for Continuing Education and the Academy of Lifetime Learning are co-sponsoring a tour of the facility from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The tour will be led by Ryan Siegel, the campus energy and sustainability coordinator.

Those interested may attend for free, but have to RSVP ahead of time to the School for Continuing Education. Mary Temples, an office assistant in the School for Continuing Education, said people will have the chance to have a guided tour of the state-of-the-art building. “Our members will be able to tour the building and see how it’s set up and works,” she said. “If they have any questions about how the center functions, they’ll be able to have

those questions answered.” Temples said they have had tours like this before, and the last ones were very well received. “We wanted to do (the tour) because of the education component,” she said. “Attendees can learn about biomass gasification, heat and power.” Siegel said the tour will include an explanation of the equipment and process used to provide steam to Eastern’s campus. “They’ll be able to see all the

equipment that goes into the production of the steam, which is rather extensive,” he said. Siegel said attendees will be able to gain a bigger perspective on how Eastern is powered by attending the tour. “At the conclusion of the tour, the comment that I get most often is ‘I didn’t realize how much it took just to provide heat for campus,’” he said. Last time, Siegel said there were 11 participants, and there are at least 15 signed up for Tuesday’s tour.

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Summer concert series to be held at Kiwanis Park

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Starting Thursday, June 6, Charleston Parks and Recreation will be putting on the Community Band concerts at the Amphitheater in Kiwanis Park. According to the Parks and Recreation website the concerts are scheduled at 7:30 p.m. every Thursday through July 11. The concerts are free to everyone, with a recommendation that anyone planning to attend brings a lawn chair.

Exploration of the Douglas-Hart Nature Center throughout the summer will allow children to discover plants, bugs and animal life they have never seen before. Starting Wednesday, children of all ages can attend camps at the center to learn about the different types of environments and species at the center. Jennifer Tariq, the education director, said they will offer a 40 types of camps with different lengths that allow children starting at the age of 2 to 16. The variety of camps offered varies depending on the age of the child, Tariq said. Camps range from “Budding Naturalist” for children ages 2 to 4 where there are songs and puppets to teach the children about nature to “Wilderness Wise” for ages 7 to 12 where children are taught how to build fires, learn about plants and navigation, she said. One of the more popular camps is “Tribal Camp.” “It is based off of “Survivor” and they play different mission games, capture the flag and even some game show-type games,” Tariq said. Tariq said the children who go to these events learn so much and are surprised by the things they find. “There was this little boy who caught a bug and he thought it was a grasshopper but it was katydid,” Tariq said. “He had never ever seen a katydid before and didn’t even know what it was. That was his bug and he caught it and he had to look it up in the book.” Tariq said she told the boy that there was a hot pink colored katydid in other parts of the country and he did not believe her. “He thought bugs were only brown and green,” Tariq said. The next day he was on another

bug hunt and he kept catching different types of katydids. “It was so eye-opening for him to that there was so much out there to be discovered,” Tariq said. “All it took was one little net for him to find out there is much more around him to explore and discover.” Some camps are one day, multiple days, half days or a couple hours. “We offer a lot of different option for kids with busy schedules this summer,” Tariq said. The camps have various prices from $7 to $75. Camps are first come first serve and there are wait list for some camps. Tariq said they encourage parent to sign up for camps, even if they are full, because some camps they will repeat if there are enough people on the list. Parents can register by filing out a form online at dhnature.org, at the center, by contacting the center. Tariq said all the camps offer educational opportunities while the children are having fun and children get a different experience. “Field trips are very different from our summer camps, so kids who’ve come on field trips get a whole other eye opening experience with summer camps,” Tariq said. She said she has seen student who have come on field trip do things they were not able to do with their school. “It is really full of play and full of exploring,” Tariq said. “We come back muddy and dirty and gross sometime. They may not be able to get dirty at or may not have the backyard where they can climb the tree. Those memories that we hear are the best.” Tariq said the children are surprised when the instructors will get dirty with them. The best part for her, Tariq said, is getting to play with the children.

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Adam Kingery, of Casey Ill., and his sons, Seth, 3, and Drake, 10, attend the Monarch butterfly tagging event at Douglas Hart Nature Center with Paul Switzer, of Charleston, on September 9, 2012.

While her job involves a lot of paperwork, she gets to interact with the children and she said she loves that part the most. One the last day of camp, the children and instructors have a water gun fight, and Tariq said the children are surprised they play with them. “They are not use to seeing their adults and instructors in that type

of role, be willing to let them squirt me with water and play with them,” Tariq said. “I think that is the best part is when they realize that we are willing to get down and dirty with them.” Samantha McDaniel can be reached at 581-2812 or dennewsdesk@gmail.com

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5K race to unite community, raise money Staff Report @Den_News The fourth annual Run for the Son 5K race will kick off the Summer Start Up festival at 7 p.m. Saturday at Pro-Tran Inc. near the Lincoln Prairie Grass Trail.

Run for the Son is a two-mile walk and a 5K race hosted by the St. Charles Borromeo Church. Marissa Grant, one of the race organizers, said the race is a good opportunity for community members to come together. “The run is fun for people to

run as a family or walk as a family,” Grant said. The race was started as a way to kick off the festivities of the Summer Start Up festival. The first place male and female will receive a free pork chop dinner during the festival and all partici-

pants will get four free game tickets, Grant said. Participants can register on the church website at www.stcharleschurch.org or before the race from 6:15 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. It cost $10 to register and all money goes to the church.

News Editor Samantha McDaniel blogged about the trials of planning a wedding while taking college classes and dealing with the long distance between her fiancé and her. samsweddingplans.wordpress.com

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Support your local farmers by buying produce from market With the Charleston Farmer’s Maralso benefit from shopping at the farmer’s market in full swing, Charleston residents and ket. Our POSITION anyone from the surrounding commuProduce, especially fruits and vegetables, • Situation: The annual local farmer’s market nities have the chance to do something from large network chains such as Walmart, has started unique: purchase truly fresh produce. often sit on shelves for days. • Stance: People that have access to the marFor the past 30 years, the Charleston They are oftentimes injected with color ket should take advantage of it, support their local farmers and buy locally when possible Farmer’s Market has allowed vendors to enhancers and chemicals to keep them fresh bring their products straight to the comlonger. munity in a way grocery stores simply If produce is fresh off the vine, tree or bush, cannot. it is more likely to taste better and be healthier as well. Buying goods from the farmer’s market has multiple benefits. All in all, farmer’s markets are a win-win situation for both the For one, you have the chance to keep money in the community. producers and the consumers. By buying fresh goods and produce from members of your same It is a place to bond, get to know your community in a new way community, the money spent does not go to large corporations or and experience new tastes in the form of fresh produce. somewhere out of sight, out of mind. This provides a perfect opportunity for all community members to Instead, the money can go directly into the farmers’ production of get out and support their local farmers. their next crop, which becomes cyclical for next year’s market. The Charleston Farmer’s Market begins every Wednesday at 7 a.m. In addition to benefitting local farmer’s financially, consumers can and goes until October, with weather permitting.

Summer: never a good time for a wedding Congratulations! You’re getting married! Let’s all backtrack for a second. My friend Andrew is getting married later this month, and I am totally against it. Now for some background information. His fiancée is also a good friend of mine. She is a really sweet girl, kind more often than not, and clearly in love with him. He, in turn, is the nicest person in the world. He’s the type of person who, if they ever got mugged, would offer the money in his shoe so the mugger wouldn’t have to rob anyone else for a while. So it’s a match made in heaven, right? Well, yes. But that is not the problem. The problem is marriage. Not the who, but the actual concept and overarching idea that is marriage in the United States. There is a hugely ridiculous idea out there that everyone is supposed to get married. But there is a problem that lies within the idea of everyone needing to get married — marriage doesn’t work. There are too many reasons for people to end a marriage. Whether it be a fallout between a couple, a

Zachary White realization that the marriage is not benefitting either person, a problem with one of the spouse’s credit scores, their family being too crazy, etc. The reasons to stay in a marriage: love and other emotions. All the reasons to keep a marriage together don’t seem to match up to the full weight of the problems that can tear a marriage apart. Of course, people can choose to completely neglect the clear fact that marriages do not always work out. The unanswerable question that remains is how can you know for sure that you want to spend the rest of your life with someone? Love cannot possibly be the real reason that two people can come together and stay together until the day they die. Is it not a need to have someone else help us through our problems that drives a mar-

riage onward? This seems more likely than the artificial concept of love that companies like Hallmark, the Hershey Company and 1-800-Flowers try to sell us. And they do sell well. They sell the idea of love so well that our capitalist nation buys it up in a heartbeat. And therein lies the problem with marriage. We spend and spend on our loved ones, using the only method of showing love our society has ever learned and we hope that somehow our reckless spending will end with our finding a long lasting relationship. People spend so much time thinking about what to buy for each other that they slowly believe that buying someone something will make up for what they lack on an emotional level. But maybe I don’t know what I am talking about. Oh well, I have to go buy my friends a wedding present now so they can know I love them. Zachary White is a senior journalism major. He can be reached at 581-2812 or denopinions@eiu.edu.

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Local TV hosts share travels, experiences By Amanda Wilkinson @akaywilkinson Just like children on summer break, Lori Casey and Kate Pleasant get to spend their days outside when school is let out for the summer. “It’s always a really nice day to be out and about,” Pleasant said. “Most people have to be inside and work and we get to be out on the road.” Casey and Pleasant are the videographers, producers, writers, editors and hosts for Heartland Highways on WEIU. Heartland Highways is a local travel program in which unique people and places are featured. “We’re the guys that make the DVDs to send out when people order them,” Pleasant said with a laugh. “It truly is our show so when we put it out there. It’s our heart and soul.” The show was started about 12 years ago when Casey recreated Heartland Highways from a show she did in Minnesota. “When I got hired by WEIU, they wanted me to do the same type of program, but an Illinois version,” Casey said in an email. Pleasant said she joined the “crew” during season six in 2007, but before she was a student at Eastern and a part of the news program. “That’s where I really found my passion for story telling, and that’s what translates now with what I do with Heartland Highways,” Pleasant said. “I mean, so many times we say people don’t go to things that are right in their own town.”

Most people try to visit big, wellknown attractions and cities, she said. “What we do with this show is bringing back to the fact that there’s all this really great stuff right here in your own backyard,” Pleasant said. Pleasant, who is originally from Robinson, said before she started working on the show, she traveled frequently. “My family likes to travel,” she said. “We weren’t much of homebodies. Even on a Saturday afternoon, we wouldn’t sit at home.” Pleasant said she and her family would drive around the country side and find something new to do in town. Her inspiration for segments of Heartland Highways often come from her drives in the county with her husband and son. “We go out on Tuesday nights,” Pleasant said. “You just never know what you’re going to find. I’ve found stories just out driving like that.” Casey said when she was a child, her family traveled west and stopped at many historic sites and national parks. “That’s probably where I got my love of travel,” she said. Pleasant said it is hard to choose which experience she has had to be her favorite. “We’ve interviewed more than 400-500 people over the course of this show,” she said. Pleasant said a couple of years ago, she and Lori did a segment on a circus in Bloomington. “It’s not like your traditional, an-

imals type of circus,” she said. “It’s acrobatics and things like that.” The circus members let Casey and Pleasant try out the trapeze, Pleasant said. Casey said her favorite experience was from the most recent season. “I really enjoyed the story on the Arcola Walldog project where a group of mural painters came down for five days,” she said. She and Pleasant met people from Scotland and New Zealand for that segment. “It’s not your typical workplace, and it’s never your typical work day at Heartland Highways because we get to do things like that,” Pleasant said. Pleasant said on average, she and Casey will travel about 100 miles for a segment. “It’s thousands. I can’t even fathom a guess,” Pleasant said about how many miles in total. Besides working on three segments for every one of the 13 Heartland Highways shows, Casey and Pleasant are responsible for producing client-produced commercials and other local television shows. Since she and Casey started working together, Pleasant said they have grown to work harmoniously. “It flows really well, and we kind of know what each other’s going to do so we don’t waste time trying to figure out who’s doing what, we just know because we’ve been working together long enough now,” Pleasant said. Pleasant said it is surprising so many people recognize her, especial-

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Riding for 110 years, counting By Marcus Smith @ma_masmith Johna Von Behrens recently went to the Harley & Davidson Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for a class project, where she was inspired to update Booth Library’s Harley-Davidson 100-year anniversary exhibit from 2003. Von Behrens, a senior library specialist at Booth Library, updated the previous exhibit for the 110-year anniversary of Harley-Davidson. The exhibit will be on display until September. Jocelyn Tipton, Booth Library head of reference at the time and now associate dean of public services, was responsible for putting together the 100-year anniversary exhibit. Von Behrens said she has been a fan of Harley-Davidson ever since riding on the back of one.

“I just like the noise and riding on them,” she said. Von Behrens said two men, William S. Harley and Arthur Davidson, started the company in 1901 out of a shed in Milwaukee, and it is still there and now a part of the Harley-Davidson Museum. According to harley-davidson. com, the company quickly out grew the shed and began work on a 90,000 square foot facility in 1929. Von Behrens said that Harley-Davidson is now designing some motorcycles specifically for women riders. “The thing I really like about the Harley-Davidson is they are gearing them towards women,” she said. According to harley-davidson.com, the first well-known woman rider was Vivian Bales, also known as the ‘Enthusiast Girl.’ Bales picked up this moniker after writing in to The Enthusiast in 1929 about a cross-coun-

try trip she was planning. Von Behrens said she likes the fact that Harley-Davidson is a family oriented brand and there is a real sense of brotherhood involved with owners of Harley-Davidsons. She also said it is a nice company to work for according to an archivist at the Harley-Davidson Museum. Von Behrens said Harley-Davidson has a long history of helping people like firefighters and soldiers through its foundation. According to Harley-Davidson’s website, “We build strong, skilled and sustainable communities where we work. With our employees and dealers, we help fulfill dreams through partnerships with charitable organizations.” Marcus Smith can be reached at 581-7942 or masmith6@eiu.edu.

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ly so far away. She said the show is broadcasted farther than Champaign. “It’s really humbling,” Pleasant said. “It’s so nice when someone says, ‘I watch your show.’ To do

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Vickers said learning from his colleagues is the most important thing he takes away from conferences like the NAFSA. Holland said she always takes a lot away from attending conferences such as these. “A lot of it has to do with sharing things that we do and do well,

something that people really like, there’s a lot of gratification.”

so getting new ideas from sessions is big,” she said. “It’s important to make sure we’re working with students when they return from their travels along with before they depart.” Robyn Dexter can be reached at 581-2812 or redexter@eiu.edu.

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“Say somebody improves their property in that area, their taxes would normally go up,” he said. “The additional taxes are put into this special fund that can be used to upgrade other properties.” The Sensible Rehabilitation program allows the city to give out grants to people who want to upgrade their property whether it be commercial or residential. The goal is to improve the properties, increase the value of the properties adjacent to the initial improvement, improve the overall environment in the area and to enhance the tax base. The three properties, Southside Café located at 614 Jackson Ave., 124 Sixth St. and 126 Sixth St. owned by John Williams, will be given grants to assist in exterior improvements. The city will be giving Betty Snyder about $13,000 to replace eight storefront windows and remove and replace a triple eyebrow window. “What we do, typically, is if it’s going to cost $10,000 to do whatever improvement they want, we give them a grant for half of that. They pay for the other half of it,” Rennels said. “We feel it’s important for the property owner to have some ownership in it.” He said for the Southside Café, the city will be paying for 50 percent of the downstairs improvements as usual but the city will be paying 100 percent of the upstairs improvements. “It’s a little different because one of

the improvements is something that the city really wanted to put in there ourselves. As a result, we gave 100 percent of that portion of the grant,” Rennels said. The city wanted to specifically restore the arch eyebrow window on the second floor of the Southside Café, he said. John Williams will be given about $11,000 for various improvements on his two properties. The council will also be voting on no parking zones on streets near O’Brien Field during Eastern events. Portions of Orchard Drive, Chamberlin Drive and C Street will be closed to parking two hours prior and following commencement ceremonies, home football games, state high school track meets and Special Olympics celebrations. The council will also be voting on a bid award for general maintenance street materials. Rennels said the city receives bids for various materials they will need for street maintenance. “We select a low bidder for each item but we don’t really commit to anything here,” he said. “All we do is say, ‘This is the approved vendor for this particular kind of rock or whatever.” Amanda Wilkinson can be reached at 581-2812 or akwilkinson@eiu.edu.

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