Archive for May 2019
Deer Creek, Minier Libraries Among 12 That Receive Anonymous Windfall
Reprinted with permission of Peoria Journal-Star By Nick Vlahos, Photo by David Zalaznik It isn’t every day the Deer Creek District Library receives a $2,000 anonymous donation. Come to think of it, it might not be any day. At least not any day in the two decades Carlene Mathis-Kull has worked there. “It was such…
Read MoreFallen B-N Soldier Honored With Armed Forces Day Ceremony
Editor’s Note: Jerome Maddox is Vice President of Illinois Prairie Community Foundation’s Board of Directors By Ryan Denham; Photo by Jeff Smudde Reprinted with permission of WGLT A huge crowd marked Armed Forces Day on Saturday by honoring the life and death of Sgt. Anthony R. Maddox, a former Bloomington-Normal resident who died six years…
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