With a successful Claud-Elen Days pet parade this year, organizers plan to support a bigger and better event next year.
Moeller opens NASDAQ with bell
It isn’t every day that a hometown girl gets the opportunity to see her face projected above Times Square, but on June 10 Illinois Valley Central graduate Kelly Moeller experienced just that.
Erma O'Brien named Miss Chillicothe.
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From the moment Judy McColl stole her first flower from the garden club president’s yard at 5 years old and was chased from the yard, she knew that one day she wanted a garden of her own.
“I love flowers. I always have,” McColl said.
Local team takes nationals
Kirsten Dunst may have worked her spirit fingers in the movie “Bring it on,” but the girls found on the Cheer Time USA competitive cheerleading team have something more: a national win.
Dunlap resident and soon-to-be Bradley University freshman Katie Maloof still is excited about the win three months later as she described nationals.
Dunlap kids spark interests at special day
Robots, horses, painting, crime scene investigation, scuba diving, archery and ice cream. What do they all have in common? Each was featured as a session for kindergarten through fifth grade Dunlap students at their Explore More Day May 20.
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Photo feature of the wild Virginia bluebells at Illinois Canyon in Starved Rock State Park
A community raised Pearce Community Center, and that same community now gathers to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their dream.
With just $1, the former Pearce Grade School, named for Dr. L.L. “Doc” Pearce, was purchased from Illinois Valley Central District 321.
Pearce served as Pearce School principal from 1923-40.
In the summer of 1989, the 55-year-old building sat empty, but images of making it into a community center loomed big in the eyes of Chillicothe dreamers.
Celebrates loft opening, announces May rummage sale
It’s all about the 10s with CrossWord Café.
The teen hangout, at 947 N. Second St., will celebrate a decade of existence in September, and officials plan to fundraise for $10,000 to keep the café going.
Owns Wedding Cake Connection
Most people would like to have their cake and eat it too.
Chillicothean Barb Evans is one of the few people who can take advantage of that opportunity and make her own cake anytime she pleases.
As owner of the Wedding Cake Connection, Evans labors on making custom wedding cakes for the Peoria area.
She is also a certified master sugar artist, a teacher and a judge.
Her success in the cake world recently led her to an opportunity to appear on television.
It should come as no surprise that a former Chillicothean would be awarded for serving in the military.
Known for wearing their patriotism on their sleeves, residents may be surprised to learn that an 86 year old now living in Chicago served in the U.S. Marine Corps Women’s Reserve.
To highlight March as National Women’s History Month, Muriel Frieda Underwood was named Illinois’ veteran of the month March 30. The Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs hosted a “Salute to Women Veterans” that day in Chicago.
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Retired assistant principal Bob Howell returned to Illinois Valley Central High School March 25 to emcee the student council’s box lunch auction raising funds for cystic fibrosis.
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The IVC Educational Foundation’s Chocaholics Jazz Night March 31 included performances by Illinois Valley Central High School jazz bands and the jazz bands from both Chillicothe Elementary Center and Mossville School.
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The curtain opens, the lights shine, and the characters take the stage in full costume.
Production for the Illinois Valley Central High School spring musical, “Hello, Dolly!” is much more than just learning lines, creating emotion on stage and speaking in a voice which can be heard clear at the back of the IVC auditorium.
