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2017 Relay For Life: More People Living With It Than Dying From It
By Rebecca Ruehl I posted this question on Facebook a week or so ago. “Friends. I need your help. If you or a family member is a cancer survivor, would you type their names in the comments section. It’s for a Relay article. And yes, I can use “first name last initial” for anonymity.”…
Read More2017 Relay For Life: Drink The Lemonade
By Rebecca Ruehl I’ve been involved with Relay for Life since 1998, the year after our daughter was diagnosed with cancer. Through the years, I’ve seen lots of fundraisers. Raffles and bake sales and BBQ’s and silent auctions and shirts and flipflops and letter writing. Some have been successful. Others? Not so much. When…
Read MoreIDOT Road Surfacing In County Begins May 15
The Illinois Department of Transportation announced that construction consisting of bituminous surface treatments of Stone Church Road, Raven Road, and Vermont Road, and asphalt overlay of the bridge approach roadways at Mud Creek, South Fork and Mud Creek, and Archie Creek began on Monday, May 15. This work is expected to be completed by the…
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