Limited: Messing with the Blues, Remembering Eric Tapley - July 2020

Limited

Bloomington-Normal’s Premier Lifestyle and Business Magazine - July 2020

blues MESSING WITH THE

REMEMBERING ERIC TAPLEY

Index

Staff and Contributors Jonell Kehias, editor

Thom Rakestraw,

Victoria Weinberg, creative director

Carlos T. Miranda,

Deanna Frautschi, writer, photographer, naturalist Michael Escoubas, poet

photographer

BUSINESS

LIFESTYLE

Business Spotlight ��������������������������3

Walk with Me �������������������������������� 17

Business Barometer....................... 6

Power of the Purse ��������������� 18, 19

Cuatro de Mayo �������������������������������8 Messing with the Blues �������20-22 Poem: Tappin’ the Blues ������������ 23 By the Numbers ������������������������������9 It’s Too Quiet...................................25 Behind the Mask ������������������� 10, 11 5 Questions with Tee it Up! for GFPD................12, 13 Kristen Gillespie ��������������������������� 29

photographer Lewis Marien, photographer David Proeber, photographer

Mary Ann Ford, writer

Celebrate America! ��������������������� 30 Inspiration �������������������������������������� 31

Thanks to Linda Foster, Deb Mehlberg, Ralph Weisheit and OSF Healthcare for providing photos for the cover and cover story.

This month’s Limited features some favorite summer events from past years. Take a walk down Memory Lane and enjoy!

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RobDob’s Restaurant & Bar, 801 N. Hershey Rd, Bloomington, reopened their patio and celebrated the coming weekend with live music from Style in Stereo.

Jim Robinson enjoyed lunch with his sons at a picnic table outside The Rock Restaurant, Normal.

Steve Richter and Craig Baker enjoyed lunch at Crawford’s Corner Pub, 610 W. Chestnut, Bloomington.

Bistro owner Jan Lancaster set up tables for Friday night traffic in downtown Bloomington.

Concrete barriers and a thick chain protected a family who ate at picnic tables in a parking lane in front of Medici in uptown Normal.

Joe Stubblefield enjoyed a beer in the open air tent at Maguire’s Bar and Grill in downtown Bloomington.

Inchol Chong surveyed his outdoor space as he seated customers at Reality Bites in downtown Bloomington.

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Business Spotlight

May 29 was a date for the books. It was the day that restaurants and bars were allowed to reopen for food and alcohol in outdoor seating areas.

Patrons and owners in Bloomington-Normal welcomed the change with smiles and weather ideal for al fresco dining.

A T MOMEN WITH

loomington-Normal BASSOCIATION OF REALTORS

BY DIANE COTE

Housing Inventory Hits an All-Time Low It is a great time to sell! Housing inventory is at an all-time low, 40% less than this time last year. Homes within a certain price range are selling quickly, with multiple offers, and in hours of being listed. There was an inventory shortage before COVID-19. Sellers have been holding back from putting their homes on the market due to the pandemic, which has caused the shortage to become greater.

REALTORS® are leveraging technology and new tools to service their clients safely. That translates into creating virtual tours using 3D technology for listings so buyers can virtually “walk through a home”, video conferencing for buying and listing clients, and paperwork is handled through emails with digital signature capabilities.

Coming into “Restore Illinois Phase 3” starting May 29, 2020, REALTORS® will be able to hold physical open houses if the seller is comfortable with it. They will follow the guidelines set forth in phase 3 to ensure the safety of their client’s, which includes limiting groups to ten people or less (including owners and brokers who might be present in the property), social distancing where possible, with face coverings where social distancing can’t be observed and frequent cleaning.

The “Shelter in Place” caused many property owners to purge, organize, paint and update. In addition, all this time at home has caused people to think about moving. The properties are ready and so is the market. Contact a REDiane Cote ALTOR® today while rates and CEO, Bloomington-Normal Association of REALTORS inventory are low!

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OUR MEMBERS ADVOCATE FOR PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS IN YOUR COMMUNITY

John Armstrong RE/MAX Rising

Meenu Bhaskar Keller Williams Revolution

Danny Carcasson RE/MAX Rising

Adrianne Cornejo Keller Williams Revolution

Diane Cote BNAR

Valerie Crutchfield Green Acres Real Estate

Valerie Curry Berkshire Hathaway Home Services

Cathy Denbesten Denbesten Real Estate

Jessica Devore Green Acres Real Estate

Steve Devore Green Acres Real Estate

Kathy DiCiaula Berkshire Hathaway Home Services

Peg Donaldson Berkshire Hathaway Home Services

Julie Duncan Berkshire Hathaway Home Services

Cindy Eckols RE/MAX Choice

Dan Kniery Berkshire Hathaway Home Services

Tom Krieger Keller Williams Revolution

Danell Moberly Keller Williams Revolution

Ed Neaves Berkshire Hathaway Home Services

Kirsten Schroeder Coldwell Banker Real Estate Group

Brandon Shaffer Berkshire Hathaway Home Services

Camill Tedrick RE/MAX Choice

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Dawn Peters Keller Williams Revolution

Dan Slagell RE/MAX Choice

Karen Stailey-Lander Berkshire Hathaway Home Services

Greg Teats Keller Williams Revolution

Penny Wilson Coldwell Banker Real Estate Group

Amanda Wycoff Berkshire Hathaway Home Services

The Bloomington-Normal Association of REALTORSÂŽ thanks all of our members for their support in advocating for private property rights.

These professionals stand out for their significant efforts made in keeping our communities a vibrant place to live and work. Our communities and the real estate industry can only continue to thrive with the strong advocacy of professionals like these.

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Business Barometer

F‌ rontier Airlines begins COVID rules BLOOMINGTON — Frontier Airlines is beginning COVID-19 procedures for its passengers and crews. Passengers and crew will have their temperatures taken; anyone with a temp of 100.4 or higher will not be permitted to traffic. The airline continues to require face coverings for all passengers and crew throughout the flight.

Looters swarm Target, Walmart, other stores in Bloomington-Normal Overnight confrontations turned violent and devolved into looting at several stores across Bloomington-Normal on Monday, June 1 and continued into Tuesday, June 2. Besides Walmart and Target, looters also broke into Kohl’s at Eastland Mall, Rent –A-Center, Read’s Sporting Goods and Monster Pawn.

Former Wildwood property to be redeveloped NORMAL—The Normal City Council will consider a development agreement for the former Wildwood Industries property that could create 50 jobs on Normal’s north edge.

Flexitech to close B-N plant, lay off 139 BLOOMINGTON – More than 100 p0eople will lose their jobs as a result of Flexitech Inc. Shutting down its Bloomgton assembly plant. The first layoff date is listed as June 1, 2021.

City to start running arena The soon-to-be-severed management relationship between the city and VenuWorks ends another chapter in the downtown arena’ rocky financial path, which was strained long befor eht COVID-19

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pandemic temporarily; shut down the facility. Termination of the agreement is effective June 8. Management fuctions wil move to existing city staff.

Companies seek Lee ad grants BLOOMINGTON — Dozens of Central Illinois businesses struggling with the impact of COVID-19 applied by early May for a Lee Enterprises Inc. marketing grant program offering matching advertising packages worth $250 to $15,000 per month to businesses for use in Lee print and digital publications, such as Pantagraph Media.

Rivian reopens plant NORMAL — Rivian began a phased reopening of its west Normal plant in midMay, expecting to have 115 to 120 employees on site shortly after the state moved May 29 into Phase 3 of the Restore Illinois pandemic response plan and to deliver its first electric vehicle order by 2021.

Cities to ease rules for outdoor dining BLOOMINGTON — Mayors Tari Renner of Bloomington and Chris Koos of Normal promised at the end of May to move quickly and creatively with such changes as waiving parking lot rules and closing streets to help bars and restaurants offer outdoor seating that complies with Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s next phase for reopening during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Restaurants struggle through pandemic BLOOMINGTON — Owners of Twin City eateries like Crawford’s Corner Pub, Parkview Inn and Normal’s Maggie Miley’s switched to curbside and delivery service and tapped government loans and other programs to keep going after dine-in services ended March 16, but they said they still struggle with the full return of indoor dining apparently months away.

Candy plant may expand A possible $70 million expansion of the candy plant at 2501 Beich Road owned by Ferrero SpA of Italy advanced May 11 with the Bloomington City Council’s endorsement of including it in an economic development enterprise zone.

Carle-Advocate hospital deal advances NORMAL — Urbana-based Carle Health’s $190 million acquisition of Advocate BroMenn Medical Center in Normal and Advocate Eureka Hospital in Eureka took two steps closer to approval in May with procedural endorsements by the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board and the Federal Trade Commission.

Recreational cannabis store opens NORMAL — Beyond/Hello, 501 W. Northtown Road, Normal, the first recreational-use cannabis business in the Twin Cities, opened its doors and online store May 11 with hopes to “go beyond a simple hello” for new customers.

Elective surgeries resume BLOOMINGTON — Central Illinoisans waiting since March for non-urgent but, in many cases, medically necessary surgeries and procedures got some relief starting May 11 with state permission for hospitals to resume elective surgeries for patients tested and free of COVID-19.

Reopening businesses excited, cautious BLOOMINGTON — People at Central Illinois businesses ranging from hair salons and gyms to restaurants and retailers were excited and cautious on May 29 as restrictions put in place in March to stem the spread of COVID-19 moved into the much looser Phase 3 of the Restore Illinois plan.

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Empire Business Park, BL Various sizes available - Located in the Enterprise Zone, across from CIRA

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2017 Cuatro de Mayo Party

Bloomington-Normal Association of REALTORSÂŽ Thursday, May 4 El Toro Restaurant in Bloomington Sponsored by: The Pantagraph, Busey Bank, Marine Bank, MSI, American Home Shield

Chrissy Benecke, Kim Baker, Diane Cote

Amanda Willette, Tara Boyd, Kristen Haas Oliver

Jim Fruin, Mark Haeffele

Dan Slagell, Casey Kearfott, Dave Usiak, Gerry Wahlheim

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Liliana Taimoorazi , Caroline Bird

Kerry Kidwell, Dianne Siverly, Adrianne Cornejo

Kindi Bliss, Anne Bliss, Julia Davis

Gerry Wahlheim, Tom Krieger

2020 YTD* Single Family Home Sales Stats Through April 2020

NEW CONSTRUCTION

RESALE

2020 YTD TOTALS

2020 YTD Totals

2020 YTD Totals

2020 YTD Totals

Units: 9

Units: 698

Units: 707

$Volume: $2,677,335

$Volume: $115,552,610

$Volume: $118,229,945

Average Price: $297,482

Average Price: $165,548

Average Price: $167,228

2019 YTD Comparison

2019 YTD Comparison

2019 YTD Comparison

Units: 13

Units: 662

Units: 675

$Volume: $3,657,550

$Volume: $110,993,835

$Volume: $114,651,385

Average Price: $281,350

Average Price: $167,664

Average Price: $169,854

* Compiled as of May 11, 2020 Bloomington-Normal Association of REALTORS

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With your marriage ending, your business may feel like your center of gravity right now. The worry that you may lose control of it in the divorce may be keeping you up at night. Here is a breakdown of the most common options for dividing business assets.

The method appropriate for you will depend on a number of factors, including how much of your business qualifies as marital property, how involved your spouse is in your endeavor and what precautions you took ahead of time.

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Unless a prenuptial agreement or other legal contract exists that locks your spouse out of the business, at least some portion of your business is going to qualify as marital property. That being said, the cleanest way to divide property and keep your business to yourself is to buy out your spouse’s interest.

• Sell the business. If you there is no way to

buy out your spouse-and working with them as a business partner is not a viable option, you may consider selling the business and splitting the proceeds. Obviously, this is not ideal for someone who wants to continue in the business. But if negotiations do not go as you hope, this is a possible plan B. • Share the business and the income. Peaceful co-ownership is rare but works for some spouses who part amicably. It allows both spouses to benefit from the business in an ongoing capacity. However, this option might include emotional challenges along the way.

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Behind the Mask

Behindmask the Story by Deanna Frautschi Photos provided to Limited

In March, a 15-member United Way COVID-19 Task Force (see below) began looking at food issues facing our community. We came together to coordinate resources and collaborate to help meet the growing food needs with representatives from social service agencies, schools, churches and local government.

One of the needs quickly identified was facemasks – for all volunteers helping with food distribution and for all drivers who were coming to pick up food for themselves and their families. We quickly put together a request for masks, either hand-sewn or purchased and were delighted with the community’s response.

To further highlight the need for wearing a mask for protection of oneself and others, we began a social media series called “BEHIND THE MASK”. Task force members were asked to provide masked snapshots of themselves or others volunteering with them to help meet community needs. A few from the series are shown here.

How fortunate we are in McLean County that so many people want to help their fellow citizens.

Diane Yount distributes paper supplies at Wesley United Methodist Church.

Drake Sniff helps with traffic management at Western Avenue Community Center’s food distributions.

Denny and Linda Steele pass out food at Western Avenue Community Center.

To learn more about this United Way collaborative effort, go to: https://uwmclean. org/covid-19-community-care-fund/

Phani Aytam (with daughter Shree), is United Way Board chair and advisor to COVID-19 task force.

Sean Spencer, LuAnn Edmundson and Jon Simon deliver meals to families in LeRoy School District.

David Hirst, President of Immigration Project Board, oversees food distributions for them.

United Way COVID-19 Task Force: Dayna Brown, Tony Coletta, Mercy Davison, Deanna Frautschi, Tyler Hari, Aaron

Hayes, David Hirst, Melissa Hon, Tara Ingham, Mike Jones, Jeff Leverton, Barry Reilly, Ray Ropp, Karen Schmidt, Gary Tipsord.

(United Way Advisors: Phani Aytam, David Taylor, Kathleen Lorenz)

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Cat Woods distributes masks made by her mother, Glenda Davis.

Kris Williams passes out meals to immigrants.

Ganesan Vaiyapuri helps make and deliver masks from McLean County Tamil Sangam.

Mark Daniel oversees Unit 5 food distribution.

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Behind the Mask

Alan Bedell helps with food organization for delivery at Midwest Food Bank.

2017 Tee It Up! For GFPD

‌Pre-event Reception and Silent Auction ISU Alumni Center, Normal Thursday, May 18 Photos by Thom Rakestraw While the 2020 event has been canceled, there are still plans to hold an online auction later this summer. More details coming soon at teeitup4gfpd.com Corin Chapman holding Max while Katie Lenzini takes a selfie with photobomber Carl Streily.

Tricia Sturling, Jenna Swan

Lynden and Jillian McGriff

Jason and Jill Smith

Jett and Lisa Mueller

State Rep. Dan Brady, Dr. Alan Chapman

Sally and Ed Pyne

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2017 Tee It Up! For GFPD

Angie Bubon, Angie Bellas, Mary Ann Fulton, Wendy Young, Carol Hajek

Eric and Chris Schlipf, Ryan and Eli Winn

Mel Gamble, Joe Hacia

Jared Garbe holding Conor, Colleen Garbe

Annaliese Gentry, Jane Chamberlain, Beau Gentry, Rhonda Massie

Deon Johnson, Mary Kay Quist

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HOW LONG? 2020

HOW DEEP? COVID-19

~ THE PANDEMIC IS UPON US ~

THE BUSINESS OF SURVIVAL & THE BUSINESS OF DOING BUSINESS So, what are we to make of one the most serious and significant events of our lifetime – touching all of our lives – local, state, country, and around the world? In a few months, we have come from relative well-being to an unseen enemy (virus) creating havoc in all aspects of life as we have known it – health, sickness, death, family, and disruption of business, economy, government, etc. - all with life-changing repercussions from top to bottom and with multiple ‘domino effects’. Think back over 2019 and what life was like then compared to the first half of 2020 – CHANGE is the operative word such that in so many ways it seems like two different worlds!

It becomes difficult to comprehend an insidious and invisible enemy that “runs” so silent and so deep (think submarine) causing fear, doubt, anxiety, sickness, and death; driving people to their knees in more ways and for more reasons than can be counted here. Pain and suffering appear at nearly every turn and it becomes the news. It serves no useful purpose here to recount the details of the pain and suffering or all of the reasons COVID-19 came about and the reaction, or lack thereof, to meet the crisis by health and governmental authorities at every level. There will be plenty of time later for investigation, review and reflection of how all related matters might have been done

differently - we must learn from these times. Gratitude abounds for the millions who have been on the front lines, all hours of the day and night, dealing with the multiple issues confronting all aspects of our society.

Massive and staggering affects have brought our personal lives and economic conditions beyond what we could have imagined a year ago. Let’s review some TERMS: • Shelter in Place • Stay at Home • Work from Home • No Public Gatherings • Essential Services • Non-Essential Services • Voluntary Business Closing • Involuntary Business Closings & Failures • Social Distancing • Wear Masks • Wash Hands • Use Wipes • Use Hand Sanitizer • Loss of Income • Loss of Tax Revenues • Record Unemployment • Government Loss of Services All of the above, and more, have resulted in a financial quagmire besetting all levels of our society.

People refer to the hope that we can get back to “NORMAL” – remember that operative word “CHANGE” – we are heading forward to a “NEW NORMAL” –

still to be defined. Government and businesses are providing significant financial and monetary relief to buttress this transition.

Like it or not, experts suggest many trillions of dollars are at play and will require at least 3-5 years for the “NEW NORMAL” to settle in.

So how shall we focus ourselves in this process? Consider more TERMS: Faith, Health, Patience, Tolerance, Civility, Appreciation, Consideration, Respect, Gratitude, Helpful, Willingness, Hopeful, Available, etc.!

Yes, we are in this together – one for all and all for one. The above TERMS and others you can add will, with thought and action, lighten the load of the journey. Let us put our best selves forward and the best will come!

Consult professionals: lawyers, accountants, commercial real estate brokers, counselors, etc. as we stay PROACTIVE! Mike Flynn is a licensed broker at Coldwell Banker Commercial Real Estate Group in Bloomington.

For more information on commercial real estate, contact Mike at 309-662-2124 or mflynn@cbcregroup.com

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Awe

HERE are the GREAT EVENTS HAPPENING in OUR AREA THIS MONTH! For more information or to submit your own event go to VisitBN.org/events

July 10-11 24TH ANNUAL GLORIOUS GARDEN WALK David Davis Mansion 16-19 EVERGREEN LAKE KNAP-IN Evergreen Lake 18 OUTDOOR DOWNTOWN BLOOMINGTON FARMERS’ MARKET Downtown Bloomington Square 18 MILLER PARK ZOO ZOOKEEPERS OLYMPICS Miller Park Zoo 19 CRUISING THE ART & WINE FESTIVAL Mackinaw Valley Winery 20 MCLEAN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE STROKER GOLF OUTING Crestwicke Country Club 25 OUTDOOR DOWNTOWN BLOOMINGTON FARMERS’ MARKET Downtown Bloomington Square

These events were definite at the time of publication. Please check event for any updates.

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Taylor and Tracy Patkunas

ISU first lady Marlene and ISU President Larry Dietz, Julie Dobski

Mike Matejka, Renee Nestler

Steve Dobski, Cheryl Magnuson, Scott Henrichs, Mary Bennett-Henrichs, Danny Bugg, Kevin Birlingmair, Dana Vogelmeier, photobomber Antonio Ficklin

Cynthia J. Carter, Komari Blount

Doug Meyers with Charlie Haas

Davontae Harris, Leslie Lambert

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2016 Walk With Me: a Walk With Champions

‌ aster Seals Central Illinois E Illinois State University Hancock Stadium , Normal Saturday, June 4 Photos by Erin Woods

2017 Power of the Purse

‌United Way of McLean County Doubletree by Hilton, Bloomington Thursday, June 1 Photos by: Erin Woods

Christie Vellella, Kathy Yoder

Power of the Purse co-chairs Tracey Vincent, Suniti Sud

Ann Harding, Pat Messinger

Pat Grosso, Gwen Knipp

Marlene Woodruff, Fran Strebing

Ryan O’Connell, Cat Woods

Susan Temple, Kristen Wilson

David Taylor, President & CEO United Way of McLean County

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2017 Power of the Purse

Kathryn Morris, Holly Brickhouse, Debi Grossman, Debra Leighton

Susie Ohley, Dee Frautschi, Linda Stockton

Mary Lawrence, Helen Ogar

Julie Kubsch, Tammy Carcasson, Katie Black

Kelli Hill, Shelleigh Birlingmair, Pam Reece

Sonja Reece, Julie Payne

Jean Lawyer, Stephanie Hoy

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blues

MESSING

WITH THE STORY BY MARY ANN FORD PHOTOS BY PANTAGRAPH STAFF AND PROVIDED TO LIMITED

REMEMBERING T TAP AP

Eric Tapley was the epitome of someone who lived life to its fullest.

“Eric loved life; every single part of life,” said his friend Deb Hoelscher. “He was passionate about people and making the world fair and equitable for all.”

“Tap,” as he was known to his friends, died 10 years ago on May 22, 2010, at young age of 50. His death happened just a few months before the 10th annual Nothin’ But the Blues Festival, an event he founded in 2000 and one that attracted some of the best blues artists in the world to the B l o om i n g t on

stage.

But that festival was just one in a list of accomplishments on Tap’s resume.

He had been a successful football player at Illinois State University in the late 1970s and earned a bachelor’s in physical education. Years later, he returned to the university to pursue a degree in another one of his passions – nursing.

“He always wanted to be a nurse,” said Linda Foster, who was married to Tap and is the mother of son, Eric. “He was the second black nurse to graduate.”

He got his bachelor’s degree in nursing from Mennonite School of Nursing in 1997 and became a well-respected Emergency Department nurse, working at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Advocate BroMenn Medical Center in Normal and finally OSF St. Joseph Medical Center in Bloomington.

After his death, several

Eric’s nephew Cornelius Waggner with his sons Chance and Eric.

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Emergency Department doctors created a scholarship in Tap’s name to help future “community-minded” nursing students.

(Tap also was posthumously awarded Mennonite’s Spirit of Nursing award in 2011).

Helping those in the community was the underlying goal of virtually everything Tap did in his short life.

“He was not only a family man, he was a community man,” said Linda. “He gave a lot. He participated in community events to improve lives. He gave his time, passion and treasury to the community.

If you didn’t have something, he’d give it to you.

“He always felt for the underdog. He wanted everyone to have a level playing field,” she said.

In college, he joined Brothers On Campus, a fraternal organization that focused on service projects. He coached little league football, hosted golf clinics (he loved the game of golf), helped with Bloomington’s Cultural Festival, and volunteered for countless organizations whose goal was to help others.

“He really had a servant’s heart in the biblical sense of the word,” said Deb, who along with her husband, Chris, were founding sponsors of the Nothin’ But the Blues Festival through their then association with Eastland Chiropractic.

Left: Famous blues singer Nora Jean Bruso with Tap. Below: Eric and “Delta” Frank Black.

“There probably isn’t a day that goes by that my husband and I don’t reminisce about him,” she added. “His spirit lives on in so many people.”

Among those people are his sons, Eric and Chance.

“Throughout my whole life, he was one of my biggest supporters,” said Eric, who followed in his father’s footsteps and played football in high school, college at with Bloomington Edge indoor football league.

He learned the skill from the best – his dad. Tap had coached Eric’s little league football team. “He was my go-to person on football,” said Eric, who now also is a little league football coach.

But it wasn’t only football that Tap passed on to Eric.

“He always gave back; always tried to help others. He was one of those people

Commemorative t-shirts produced to honor Eric.

you were just attracted to; wanted to know; gravitated towards,” Eric said. “He taught me so many things I still use.”

Meanwhile, Chance inherited his father’s love of music.

“I went to the (Nothin’ But the Blues) festival every year from the beginning,” said Chance. “Music has always been a big part of my life.”

His parents always played music, he said, and on road trips he and his mom, Robin, would sing in the car.

Chance started writing music at age 9 after he had a school assignment to write poetry. “I fell in love with it,” he said.

He and his dad used to watch Sunday Night Football together and Chance said he reluctantly participated in track in junior high school because his dad told him it would make him a better football player.

But Tap died a year before Chance played football as a freshman in high school. “It didn’t feel the same after my father passed,” he said, so he gave up the sport and focused on writing music and singing.

He started doing gigs right after high school. Now 24, his friends call him, “Tappa.”

“He’s a really great artist,” said Eric of his brother. “I know dad’s looking down smiling.”

When Tap died, Eric and Chance worked with Deb Hoelscher and a myriad others to make sure the 10th Nothin’ But the Blues Festival happened.

“It was a mad scramble; a mad dash,” said Eric. “With all of us, it was really hard. It was a lot of work. He always made it look so easy.”

Deb, who had been involved with the festival since its inception, was well aware of the work involved. She had gone with Tap on those midnight runs to Chicago to watch bands perform and sign them up for the festival.

“He would go days without sleep,” Deb said of Tap. But Tap thought a blues festival would help unite the community.

“He said mostly white people listen to the blues but most of blues bands are black. If we can bring these together, it’s a great way for the community to learn about each other,” Deb recalled.

“It (the festival) was never intended to be a money maker,” said J Balmer, who was president of the Blues Blowtorch Society when the idea was first discussed.

“He (Tap) wanted an event that was affordable to as many people as possible.”

But even with that goal, Tap managed to bring in well-known named blues bands.

“We were able to meet, talk to and sit down with some of the best blues artists

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in the world,” said Deborah Mehlberg, who helped backstage at the festival.

“I could learn from these people on how to be a better musician,” said musician Steve “The Harp” Mehlberg, who performed at the festivals and also hosted harmonica workshops there.

“It was important for the city,” Deborah said of the festival. “The town doesn’t have very many events and people traveled to this area for the fest. He (Tap) started something

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and no one wanted to see it end.”

The Mehlbergs carried on the festival tradition for two more years, in 2011 and 2012.

While the festival is no longer happening, there still are visible signs of Tap in the community. A bench and tree were donated in his honor at Tri Lakes, one of the locations of the blues festival, and a grove of trees were planted and a plaque placed at the ISU golf course honoring his legacy.

As a first responder, if he was still around, he’d be right out there helping (with the pandemic).

- Linda Foster He loved events. He loved bringing people of different social economics and ethnicities together. He felt that would bridge the gap.

- Deb Hoelscher

We had a very interesting relationship. It was more like brothers; we loved each other and do whatever we could for each other but we butted heads.

- J Balmer He was a friend for life and he’d be there for you if you needed it.

- Deborah Mehlberg

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He took charge, was confident and educated and knew how to deal with most situations. I looked at him as being a problem solver.

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Top: Tapley’s Illinois State University Football portrait.

Above: Tapley, right, and his teammate Greg Patton react to a missed putt.

Right: Big James of Big James and The Chicago Playboys with Eric, Below: Big Eyes Willie Smith and Eric.

BY MICHAEL ESCOUBAS For Eric Tapley with a doff of the cap to Langston Hughes

Droning a drowsy syncopated tune in his element nursing in the Emergency Room or singin’ the blues on stage.

Gridiron opponents felt a sense of doom once Eric’s skills came of age.

Droning a drowsy syncopated tune his presence in a room was sunshine over gloom.

Feelin’ down? Tap helped you turn the page.

Rockin’ and swayin’ his pipes sang a mellow croon; Tap spent his days wise as any sage.

Droning a drowsy syncopated tune never took success for granted nor did he assume that friends should ever part in a rage.

Tappin’

the Blues

He gave his life helping others grow and bloom.

Tap overcame personal blues to engage

Note: The repeated opening line in stanzas 1, 3 and 5, is from “The Weary Blues,” by Langston Hughes.

the rhythms of life in a syncopated tune founding “Nothin’ but the Blues” tapping a tune happy as a bird flown out of his cage.

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When I asked Miller Park Zoo Director Jay Tetzloff what’s it like for zookeepers working at Miller Park Zoo with no visitors due to COVID-19 regulations, he quickly replied, “It’s way too quiet.”

He added that the zookeepers do all they can to take care of and keep the animals fed and entertained, but it’s just not quite the same. One thing the staff has been doing is taking daily videos to showcase individual animals and talk about their habitats and needs. “Live” sessions are aired with the public. You can go to the Miller Park Zoo Facebook site for more opportunities to see the animals and learn more about them.

ZOOKEEPERS & ANIMALS ADJUST Zookeeper Grace Mitchell said working at the zoo is a very different experience now. Besides no visitors and limited staff in each area, “We wear masks and gloves around some of the more susceptible animals like otters, cats and primates to help protect them.” She misses the

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Left: Miller Park Zoo Director Jay Tetzloff chats with a Cotton Top Tamarin.

Below: Zookeeper Grace Mitchell visits with the San Clemente Goats.

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We will be glad to see the zoo open its doors again to visitors.”

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‌By Kevin Barlow Name: Kristen Gillespie Position: Illinois State University women’s basketball coach What kind of work are you able to do during this shelter-in-place to prepare for next season?

We have been able to do much pretty much everything besides post-season workouts and on/off campus recruiting.

We have been spending a lot of time on the phones recruiting. We recently finished our 2021 class and are now focusing on the 22s and 23s. We have been able to review and evaluate this past season and have started talking about what we want to implement next season. Our staff has definitely taken advantage of all the virtual coaching clinics that have been occurring since the shelter-

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How much are you able to keep in contact with players?

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