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ARTHUR GRAPHIC-CLARION
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
um In conjunction
with the annual Memorial
Day Service on Monday,
May 29, at Arthur Ceme-
“if?
The service starts at
am.
A table will be set up
where veterans or their
families can fill out a card
with the veteran’s name
and branch of service
The cards will be at-
11
Post 479 planning
special ceremony
to be held at annual
Memorial Day Service
tached to flags, and, fol-
lowing the service, the
flags will be placed by the
Veterans Memorial.
The card and flag cer-
emony is for all veterans,
living or dead, and service
men and women still serv-
ing their country at home
or around the world.
The Memorial Day
Service and the tribute to
veterans are open to the
public.
Village board hears
presentation on Google
software for government
By ROGER W. BONHAM
Managing Editor
The Arthur community
is receiving a lot of attention
lately on television.
"Our Story: Arthur" airs
tomorrow evening (Thurs-
day, May 18) on WEIU-TV,
and WCIA Channel 3 is com-
ing Friday, May 28, to broad-
cast live ftom downtown for
its “Our'Town” series.
The live broadcast will
be A to 7 pm, and includes
the “C.I. Living" show and
the evening newscast. In ad
dition, WCIA will feature
Arthur throughout the week
leading up to the live broad-
cast.
During the village board
meeting on Monday evening,
Jerry Hall, a sales represen-
tative from WCIA, presented
board members information
concerning the week—long
promotion.
Jeremy Rodebaugh,
technology coordinator for
Arthur Community Unit
School District 305, of-
fered insight into the use of
Google’s G-Suite, which the
board is considering to use
for day-today e-mailing, re-
port writing, record-keeping,
communicating, schedule
management, and collabora»
tion
The G~Suite for Busis
ness costs $10 per month per
user. Mayor Rod Randall es-
timated they would have 16
users [or a monthly cost of
99
H
A cheaper form of the
program is available (Ba-
sic) at half the price but does
not include the “Vault“ fea-
ture that offers the user ex»
tra storage and archiving
functions, which the city will
need.
notebooks was confi-
dent that G-Suits would be
capable of meeting the city‘s
needs.
To save time, the board
approved a resolution pro-
viding a consent agenda pro-
cedure. The consent agenda
includes items historically
found on the board’s agenda
that are noncontroversial in
nature, including approval
of minutes, bills, authorizing
the village president to act
on behalf of the board, oth-
er routine items, items that
have been thoroughly dis-
cussed previously. and non-
controversial resolutions
Instead of taking the
items and seeking motions
to approve and seconds for
each one, the village presi-
dent will ask if any trustee
wants to discuss an item on
the consent agenda. If some-
one wants to discuss an item
(Continued On Page 15)
Sewing Eastern Moultrie, Western Douglas, and Southern Piatt Counties
Visit Champaign County Tourism Council honored Noel Dicks at a special
awards pre-
sentation held May 10 at the 77 Club a! Memorial Stadium' In Champaign.
Jayne DeLuce,
president and CEO of Wsit Champaign County, and Mike DeLorenzo, chairman of
the
VCC Board at Directors, presents Noel Dicks his tourism award. Photo by
Stephanie
Wlerman
Noel Dicks receives Tourism
Impact Award from Visit
Champaign County tourism group
By Stephanie'Wiér’inari
General Manager
The Visit Champaign
County Fifth Annual Toast
to Tourism event was held
on Wednesday, May 10, at
Memorial Stadium.
Held during Nation-
al Travel 8:. Toursim Week,
this year’s theme “The Faces
of Travel" shined the spot-
light on people who keep this
industry strong.
The Tourism Impact
Awards were created to rec-
ognize the Faces of Travel
who go above and beyond
and go that extra mile for
many reasons.
Noel Dicks of Arthur
was one of five recipients to
receive the 2017 Tourism
Impact Award and was nom-
inated by Bruce Wood.
In the nomination form,
Bruce described him as ”The
Source" for the community
and its rich history.
Today. when one wants
DAR. E. GRADUATION. Arthur Grade School held its 30th Drug Abuse Resistance
Edu-
cation (D. A.R. thoE') graduation on Tuesday evening, May 9. Thirty-
-two fifth graders who
and t-shlrts. Some of
the studentsthe and adults participating In 0the many are, left to right,
Marita Mast, who
led everyone in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to begin the ceremony:
Charlene Smith
of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge 142; Jaylon Herschbergsr,
Jaydon Yod-
er, Derrick Schrock, Kendall Burdick, Robert Hostetlsr, and Police Chief
Mike Goodman,
who has bought the D.A.R.E. class since 1997. Mast, Burdick, and Martha
Herschberger
were the winners of this year’s poster comest. Herschberger is not In the
photo. The
program is sponsored by the Village of Arthur, Arthur School District 305,
and Indepen—
dent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge 142 who provided the t-shirts. A story and
additional
photos will be published in next week’s GraphichIarion. Photo by Roger W.
Bonham
l
i
l
“to‘Ih-mw the history of some-
thing in Arthur, Noel is of~
ten called upon for informa-
tion.
Jayne DeLuce, president
and CEO of VCC stated,
“Long before Google and the
internet, people had to go
door to door to gather infor-
mation about businesses. In
this case, we’re talking over
500 countryside and in-town
Arthur area businesses.
“Noel Dicks, along with
Abe Schrock. completed this
arduous task and then for-
mulated the first business
directory, which has become
an invaluable asset for visi-
tors to Arthur and is appro-
priately called ‘Connecting
the Dots.”
DeLuce Went on to say,
“Noel’s passion for the Vil-
lage of Arthur is legendary,
and along with his wife, Iris,
continues to serve as gra»
cious and wonderful ambas-
sadors for the community."
The four other recipi-
ents of the Tourism Impact
Award included Jessica Ba-
salay, Esquire Lounge; Rod
Lovett, Parkland College
Athletic Department; Cam<
eshia and Curtis McGhee,
C&C Kitchen: and Dawn
Van Buskirk, Berkshire Ho~
thaway Snyder Real Estate.
Cory Jobs, director, 11-
linois Office of Tourism,
was also present and gave a
great overview about tour-
ism in Illinois.
Jobe also announced
two new inductees into
the Illinois Made program.
The Great Pumpkin Patch
and Prairie Fruits Farm 8:
Creamery
This program is de-
signed to feature the people
and places that create, craft,
and invent in Illinois.
Arthur Area Tourism
Council is a regional mar-
keting partner with Visit
Champaign County.
Tractor cruise to roll
along 46-mile route
to fund scholarships
The Eighth Annu-
al Amish Country Tractor
Cruise will be held on Satur-
day, June 17, in Arthur.
The 46vmile route will
take riders on a picturesque
tour through the Heart of
Illinois Amish Country to
raise funds for scholarships.
Featured tractors for
this year’s cruise are the
John Deere 3010, 3020,
4000, 4010, and 4020.
Registration will begin
at 6:00 am. at Yoder's Kitch-
en. located on Route 133.
Tractors will depart at
8:00.
A 9:30 rest stop will be
made at Berle and Linda
Casteel‘s farm north of Lov-
ington on Coal Mine Road.
LUnch will be served at noon
at the Terry Warren farm
south of Sullivan.
The cruise is expected
to return to Arthur by 3:30
.m,
Each year the cruise
takes riders on a different
route through Amish Counv
try. A suggested donation
!
of $25.00 registers a driver
and tractor and includes one
lunch, one t»shirt, and ball
cap,
Additional lunch tick-
ets and t-shirts may be, pur-
chased for $10.00 each.
Sponsors for the 2017
cruise are The Equity, Kate's
Kars and Trailer Sales,
Kuhns Equipment, Okaw
Farmers, Sloan Implement,
Windswept Farms—Beck‘s
Hybrids, and Yoder Seed
CompanyiDuPont Pioneer.
Money raised through
sponsorships and donations
help fund scholarships for
students.
Since starting the schol~
arship program in 2016,
Arthur Lovington Atwood
Hammond FFA Alumni have
invested in the lives of eight
students attending college
or special FFA programs.
For more information
and to request a registra-
tion form, please contact Jim
Fleming at (217) 791-1026 or
by email at ijf1964@consol»
idatednet
Arthur, Illinois 6191 1
News
Briefs
Basketball
camps to be
held May 30
thru June
Coach Dale Schur-
ing has announced times
and dates for the annual
Knights Boys Basketball
Camp.
The camp will be
held in two sessions be-
ginning Tuesday, May
30, through Friday, June
2, at ALAH High School
gym, 301 East Columbia
Street, Arthur.
Session A meets 8:30
to 10 am. daily and is for
boys entering filth grade
through those entering
eighth grade.
Session B meats
10:30 am. to noon daily
and is for boys entering
the ninth grade (fresh-
men).
Camp fee is $40,
which includes a t-shirt.
A family discount is
available: Add $20 for a
second child, and $10 for
a third child, and so on.
Checks should be made
to ALAH High School,
Forms are available
at the grade school and
should be returned to the
oflioe by main“).
Anyone vin
tions about 319 {W ket<
ball camp should contact
Coach Schuring at schur-
ingd@cusd305.org or call
(217) 543—2146 (work) or
(217) 273-7787 (cell).
Blessing of the
Bikes to be held
Saturday, May 20
at Southern
Baptrst Church
Arthur Southem
Baptist Church will con-
duct its Fourth Annual
Blessing of the Bikes at
9 arm. on Saturday, May
20.
The event will be
held in the church park-
ing lot at 530 North Vine
St treet
Following the Bless-
ing of the Bikes, rid-
ers will embark on this
year’s tour which will
take them to Moonshine
Store southeast of Casey
for lunch,
Historical and
Genealogical
Society to meet
Moultrie County
Historical and Genea-
logical Society will hold
their monthly general
meeting at 7 pm. Thurs-
day, May 18, in the Her-
itage Center located at
117 E. Harrison in Sulli-
van,
The topic of the eve-
nmgwill be “Rural Elec-
trification. There will be
a very interesting video
of how one farm family,
the Parkinsons, were liv-
ing in Ohio before elec-
tricity came to their farm
and how life changed for
them when President
Roosevelt made Rural
Electrification Adminis-
tration possible In 1935.
Life took a sharp
turn when electricity
changed the way folks
on the farm lived and
worked.
Come and join us as
we watch this informa-
tive and historical video,
and share your memo-
ries.
, OCR Text: “memo. News from the Heart of Amish Country
.,.,.......,....WT,. m” (_
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2n mu: m; 3,
Shelmn I, ,s H3“
ADC E313
v.1. 0
ARTHUR GRAPHIC-CLARION
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
um In conjunction
with the annual Memorial
Day Service on Monday,
May 29, at Arthur Ceme-
“if?
The service starts at
am.
A table will be set up
where veterans or their
families can fill out a card
with the veteran’s name
and branch of service
The cards will be at-
11
Post 479 planning
special ceremony
to be held at annual
Memorial Day Service
tached to flags, and, fol-
lowing the service, the
flags will be placed by the
Veterans Memorial.
The card and flag cer-
emony is for all veterans,
living or dead, and service
men and women still serv-
ing their country at home
or around the world.
The Memorial Day
Service and the tribute to
veterans are open to the
public.
Village board hears
presentation on Google
software for government
By ROGER W. BONHAM
Managing Editor
The Arthur community
is receiving a lot of attention
lately on television.
"Our Story: Arthur" airs
tomorrow evening (Thurs-
day, May 18) on WEIU-TV,
and WCIA Channel 3 is com-
ing Friday, May 28, to broad-
cast live ftom downtown for
its “Our'Town” series.
The live broadcast will
be A to 7 pm, and includes
the “C.I. Living" show and
the evening newscast. In ad
dition, WCIA will feature
Arthur throughout the week
leading up to the live broad-
cast.
During the village board
meeting on Monday evening,
Jerry Hall, a sales represen-
tative from WCIA, presented
board members information
concerning the week—long
promotion.
Jeremy Rodebaugh,
technology coordinator for
Arthur Community Unit
School District 305, of-
fered insight into the use of
Google’s G-Suite, which the
board is considering to use
for day-today e-mailing, re-
port writing, record-keeping,
communicating, schedule
management, and collabora»
tion
The G~Suite for Busis
ness costs $10 per month per
user. Mayor Rod Randall es-
timated they would have 16
users [or a monthly cost of
99
H
A cheaper form of the
program is available (Ba-
sic) at half the price but does
not include the “Vault“ fea-
ture that offers the user ex»
tra storage and archiving
functions, which the city will
need.
notebooks was confi-
dent that G-Suits would be
capable of meeting the city‘s
needs.
To save time, the board
approved a resolution pro-
viding a consent agenda pro-
cedure. The consent agenda
includes items historically
found on the board’s agenda
that are noncontroversial in
nature, including approval
of minutes, bills, authorizing
the village president to act
on behalf of the board, oth-
er routine items, items that
have been thoroughly dis-
cussed previously. and non-
controversial resolutions
Instead of taking the
items and seeking motions
to approve and seconds for
each one, the village presi-
dent will ask if any trustee
wants to discuss an item on
the consent agenda. If some-
one wants to discuss an item
(Continued On Page 15)
Sewing Eastern Moultrie, Western Douglas, and Southern Piatt Counties
Visit Champaign County Tourism Council honored Noel Dicks at a special
awards pre-
sentation held May 10 at the 77 Club a! Memorial Stadium' In Champaign.
Jayne DeLuce,
president and CEO of Wsit Champaign County, and Mike DeLorenzo, chairman of
the
VCC Board at Directors, presents Noel Dicks his tourism award. Photo by
Stephanie
Wlerman
Noel Dicks receives Tourism
Impact Award from Visit
Champaign County tourism group
By Stephanie'Wiér’inari
General Manager
The Visit Champaign
County Fifth Annual Toast
to Tourism event was held
on Wednesday, May 10, at
Memorial Stadium.
Held during Nation-
al Travel 8:. Toursim Week,
this year’s theme “The Faces
of Travel" shined the spot-
light on people who keep this
industry strong.
The Tourism Impact
Awards were created to rec-
ognize the Faces of Travel
who go above and beyond
and go that extra mile for
many reasons.
Noel Dicks of Arthur
was one of five recipients to
receive the 2017 Tourism
Impact Award and was nom-
inated by Bruce Wood.
In the nomination form,
Bruce described him as ”The
Source" for the community
and its rich history.
Today. when one wants
DAR. E. GRADUATION. Arthur Grade School held its 30th Drug Abuse Resistance
Edu-
cation (D. A.R. thoE') graduation on Tuesday evening, May 9. Thirty-
-two fifth graders who
and t-shlrts. Some of
the studentsthe and adults participating In 0the many are, left to right,
Marita Mast, who
led everyone in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to begin the ceremony:
Charlene Smith
of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge 142; Jaylon Herschbergsr,
Jaydon Yod-
er, Derrick Schrock, Kendall Burdick, Robert Hostetlsr, and Police Chief
Mike Goodman,
who has bought the D.A.R.E. class since 1997. Mast, Burdick, and Martha
Herschberger
were the winners of this year’s poster comest. Herschberger is not In the
photo. The
program is sponsored by the Village of Arthur, Arthur School District 305,
and Indepen—
dent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge 142 who provided the t-shirts. A story and
additional
photos will be published in next week’s GraphichIarion. Photo by Roger W.
Bonham
l
i
l
“to‘Ih-mw the history of some-
thing in Arthur, Noel is of~
ten called upon for informa-
tion.
Jayne DeLuce, president
and CEO of VCC stated,
“Long before Google and the
internet, people had to go
door to door to gather infor-
mation about businesses. In
this case, we’re talking over
500 countryside and in-town
Arthur area businesses.
“Noel Dicks, along with
Abe Schrock. completed this
arduous task and then for-
mulated the first business
directory, which has become
an invaluable asset for visi-
tors to Arthur and is appro-
priately called ‘Connecting
the Dots.”
DeLuce Went on to say,
“Noel’s passion for the Vil-
lage of Arthur is legendary,
and along with his wife, Iris,
continues to serve as gra»
cious and wonderful ambas-
sadors for the community."
The four other recipi-
ents of the Tourism Impact
Award included Jessica Ba-
salay, Esquire Lounge; Rod
Lovett, Parkland College
Athletic Department; Cam<
eshia and Curtis McGhee,
C&C Kitchen: and Dawn
Van Buskirk, Berkshire Ho~
thaway Snyder Real Estate.
Cory Jobs, director, 11-
linois Office of Tourism,
was also present and gave a
great overview about tour-
ism in Illinois.
Jobe also announced
two new inductees into
the Illinois Made program.
The Great Pumpkin Patch
and Prairie Fruits Farm 8:
Creamery
This program is de-
signed to feature the people
and places that create, craft,
and invent in Illinois.
Arthur Area Tourism
Council is a regional mar-
keting partner with Visit
Champaign County.
Tractor cruise to roll
along 46-mile route
to fund scholarships
The Eighth Annu-
al Amish Country Tractor
Cruise will be held on Satur-
day, June 17, in Arthur.
The 46vmile route will
take riders on a picturesque
tour through the Heart of
Illinois Amish Country to
raise funds for scholarships.
Featured tractors for
this year’s cruise are the
John Deere 3010, 3020,
4000, 4010, and 4020.
Registration will begin
at 6:00 am. at Yoder's Kitch-
en. located on Route 133.
Tractors will depart at
8:00.
A 9:30 rest stop will be
made at Berle and Linda
Casteel‘s farm north of Lov-
ington on Coal Mine Road.
LUnch will be served at noon
at the Terry Warren farm
south of Sullivan.
The cruise is expected
to return to Arthur by 3:30
.m,
Each year the cruise
takes riders on a different
route through Amish Counv
try. A suggested donation
!
of $25.00 registers a driver
and tractor and includes one
lunch, one t»shirt, and ball
cap,
Additional lunch tick-
ets and t-shirts may be, pur-
chased for $10.00 each.
Sponsors for the 2017
cruise are The Equity, Kate's
Kars and Trailer Sales,
Kuhns Equipment, Okaw
Farmers, Sloan Implement,
Windswept Farms—Beck‘s
Hybrids, and Yoder Seed
CompanyiDuPont Pioneer.
Money raised through
sponsorships and donations
help fund scholarships for
students.
Since starting the schol~
arship program in 2016,
Arthur Lovington Atwood
Hammond FFA Alumni have
invested in the lives of eight
students attending college
or special FFA programs.
For more information
and to request a registra-
tion form, please contact Jim
Fleming at (217) 791-1026 or
by email at ijf1964@consol»
idatednet
Arthur, Illinois 6191 1
News
Briefs
Basketball
camps to be
held May 30
thru June
Coach Dale Schur-
ing has announced times
and dates for the annual
Knights Boys Basketball
Camp.
The camp will be
held in two sessions be-
ginning Tuesday, May
30, through Friday, June
2, at ALAH High School
gym, 301 East Columbia
Street, Arthur.
Session A meets 8:30
to 10 am. daily and is for
boys entering filth grade
through those entering
eighth grade.
Session B meats
10:30 am. to noon daily
and is for boys entering
the ninth grade (fresh-
men).
Camp fee is $40,
which includes a t-shirt.
A family discount is
available: Add $20 for a
second child, and $10 for
a third child, and so on.
Checks should be made
to ALAH High School,
Forms are available
at the grade school and
should be returned to the
oflioe by main“).
Anyone vin
tions about 319 {W ket<
ball camp should contact
Coach Schuring at schur-
ingd@cusd305.org or call
(217) 543—2146 (work) or
(217) 273-7787 (cell).
Blessing of the
Bikes to be held
Saturday, May 20
at Southern
Baptrst Church
Arthur Southem
Baptist Church will con-
duct its Fourth Annual
Blessing of the Bikes at
9 arm. on Saturday, May
20.
The event will be
held in the church park-
ing lot at 530 North Vine
St treet
Following the Bless-
ing of the Bikes, rid-
ers will embark on this
year’s tour which will
take them to Moonshine
Store southeast of Casey
for lunch,
Historical and
Genealogical
Society to meet
Moultrie County
Historical and Genea-
logical Society will hold
their monthly general
meeting at 7 pm. Thurs-
day, May 18, in the Her-
itage Center located at
117 E. Harrison in Sulli-
van,
The topic of the eve-
nmgwill be “Rural Elec-
trification. There will be
a very interesting video
of how one farm family,
the Parkinsons, were liv-
ing in Ohio before elec-
tricity came to their farm
and how life changed for
them when President
Roosevelt made Rural
Electrification Adminis-
tration possible In 1935.
Life took a sharp
turn when electricity
changed the way folks
on the farm lived and
worked.
Come and join us as
we watch this informa-
tive and historical video,
and share your memo-
ries.
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