NewsTribune La Salle, IL
Peru girl spices up her family's meatloaf
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- Peru girl spices up her family's meatloaf
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- 1:10
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Liliana Cabrera, 8, of Peru decided the first meatloaf recipe her family tried was too “boring,” so Lily decided to spice it up by adding barbecue sauce. With help from her mother, Amanda, she made a few more changes, and now the dish is one of the family’s go-to weeknight meals.
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- Exploring the future site of a distillery at Westclox
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- 1:58
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Jeff Yosowitz and Bob Windy recently took the NewsTribune on a tour of their space at the Westclox building, where the two plan on opening a distillery in August or September.
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- Generation Exchange
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- 0:32
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Generation Exchange volunteer Winifred Hoffman likes to share copies of her husband’s primary books from the 1940s with current Earlville school fourth-graders. Read more about the Generation Exchange program at newstrib.com.
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- Musicians perform at Play-A-Thon
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- 0:56
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Musicians from across the Illinois Valley performed Saturday for the first annual Play-A-Thon. The event, which raised money for music classes for needy children, met its fundraising goal of $1,000 before anyone played a single song. Sue Gillio, owner of Music Suite 408 and the event organizer, said it will become an annual event.
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- Drone flies at L-P ahead of renovation
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- 1:04
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- John Zurek of Pepper Construction flew a drone Wednesday at La Salle-Peru Township High School to take video and photos of the exterior of the buildings in preparation of the school's $38 million renovation.
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- Princeton Church gets demolished
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- 1:05
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- The First Christian Church, a staple on Princeton's Main Street landscape since 1870, started to get demolished Wednesday. The church, which hadn't been used since 2014, had severe structural damage and couldn't be fixed.
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- 90-year-old Streator woman closing in on 80,000 pies made
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- 1:53
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- 90-year-old Louise Sullivan of Streator is closing in on 80,000 pies she's made in her lifetime. Sullivan currently makes about 50 pies a week at her job at Country Cupboard in Streator.
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- FIRST Tech Challenge robotics tournament at IVCC
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- 1:55
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Robots from all over North Central Illinois rolled out to Illinois Valley Community College Saturday morning for the FIRST Tech Challenge robotics tournament held in the gymnasium. In the video, we spoke first with Terri Sancken, hosting coach and coach of two competing teams, then with an all-girls team who also happened to be the youngest team at the tournament.
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- High Schoolers jump into ice-cold water for charity at the Penguin Plunge
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- 1:19
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- High School teams from Earlville, St. Bede and Ottawa raised more than $20,000 for the Make-A-Wish foundation Saturday during the sixth annual Penguin Plunge at Heritage Harbor in Ottawa.
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- 4-H Robotics Club to compete at IVCC
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- 1:06
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Members of the La Salle County 4-H Advanced Robotics Club are competing at the Tech Challenge Regional Robotics Tournament at Illinois Valley Community College on Saturday. The robots are built from a reusable platform, powered by Android technology and programmed using Java.
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- Bill Myers spins tales at Starved Rock State Park visitor's center
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- 1:08
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Bill Myers, the Starved Rock State Park storyteller, presented holiday-themed stories at the Starved Rock Visitor’s Center Saturday afternoon. Myers, originally from Earlville and a former high school English teacher, told a wide variety of stories including poems, songs and urban legends for an hour. Myers said he presents stories at both the Visitor’s Center and Starved Rock Lodge intermittently throughout the year.
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- Cigar Box Guitars
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- 1:45
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Jim Klein demonstrates how he turns old cigar boxes into functioning guitars.
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- La Salle police officers deliver presents as part of Project Santa
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- 0:47
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Officers with the La Salle police department went around town Christmas Eve morning delivering toys, coats, gift cards and sleds for families that could use a little help this Christmas as part of the Officer Santa program.
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- L-P Choir Students present ''Twas the Night Before Christmas'
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- 2:40
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- We were feeling festive here at the NewsTribune, so Friday we went down to L-P High School and asked the choir class to help us in presenting the poem 'Twas the Night Before Christmas.' Enjoy, and have a Merry Christmas from all of us at the NewsTribune.
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- What was your favorite Christmas gift?
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- 1:37
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- The NewsTribune hit the streets this week and asked people what was their favorite Christmas gift they had ever received.
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- Tuba Christmas
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- 1:23
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- More than 40 Illinois musicians play the national anthem to start Tuba Christmas at Celebrations 150 in La Salle.
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- Peru man's homemade life-size replica of the Hatbox Ghost
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- 1:16
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Steve Yerly has several unusual Christmas decorations in his Peru home, but the centerpiece is his homemade replica of the Hatbox Ghost, a famous attraction from Disney's Haunted Mansion ride. The ghost recently was re-introduced to the famous ride for the first time since 1969, so Yerly decided to build his own.
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- Exploring the OSF Life Flight hangar in Peru
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- 1:13
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- The NewsTribune was recently given a tour of OSF's Life Flight hangar in Peru, stationed at the Illinois Valley Regional Airport. The base flew just more than 700 calls last year and is one of the busiest bases in Illinois.
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- Rachel Barton Pine performs for La Salle Lincoln students
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- 0:58
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- World-renowned violinist Rachel Barton Pine of Chicago, in town this week for a concert Saturday in La Salle, performed Friday for about 100 students at Lincoln Junior High School. Pine played a variety of pieces and talked about her profession and equipment.
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- Mobile Meals needs new drivers
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- 0:52
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Mobile Meals, the program that delivers prepared meals to those homebound or who have trouble cooking for themselves in La Salle, Peru and Oglesby, are looking for drivers.
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- Illinois Valley Food Pantry gets extremely large egg shipment
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- 0:59
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- The Illinois Valley Food Pantry received an enormous shipment of 1,455 dozen eggs from Iowa Thursday morning. Executive Director Donna Hess said the pantry plans to distribute the eggs to all of their clients as quickly as possible.
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- Struggling with Crohn's Disease: the invisible illness
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- 1:32
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Susan Zimmer of Peru said her pain level was about a one on the day she met with the NewsTribune to share her story of living with Crohn’s disease. On extreme days, it gets up to an eight, and she spends the day in bed. But she does so with the hope that “tomorrow is a new day.” For two decades, the disease had the upper hand, but for the past two years she has been in remission.
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- Video Slideshow: L-P 64, St. Bede 45
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- 0:53
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- The La Salle-Peru boys basketball team earned a 64-45 win over rival St. Bede Tuesday night at the academy.
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- La Salle's 1928 American-LaFrance ladder truck
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- 1:09
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- The La Salle Fire Department still has in their 1928 American-LaFrance ladder truck, and are looking to give it a new home. The truck served the city until 1976 and has been in the city garage building, the former Bill Vogel Chevrolet showroom, for 16 years. The city is constructing a display building for the 88-year-old truck at Fifth and Sterling streets.
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- The Templetons perform at Machelle's Backstreet
- Runtime
- 1:30
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- The Templetons, a bluegrass group consisting of Mike and Lisa Templeton of Lostant and their nine musically-inclined children, have performed in hundreds of venues across the state since forming in 2007.
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- Meet the Beatles Scholar
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- 1:06
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Aaron Krerowicz shared his Beatles knowledge Tuesday night with a large group of fans at La Salle Public Library. Krerowicz is the United States' only full-time Beatles music scholar.
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- Six-year-old La Salle girl enjoys baking
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- 1:08
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Kaitlyn Bibula, the six-year-old daughter of Ryan and Deb Bibula of La Salle, has been baking since she was three. Kaitlyn allowed the NewsTribune to interview her after making a batch of cupcakes.
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- Kindergartners in La Salle make a Thanksgiving feast
- Runtime
- 0:43
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Kindergarten students at Northwest School in La Salle spent Tuesday and Wednesday learning how to prepare a Thanksgiving meal with the help of their teachers.
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- L-P student raising money to help children served by the homeless shelter
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- 0:57
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Grace McCormick, a sophomore at L-P is collecting money for the PADS homeless shelter to be used to buy storage bins and totes for children at the shelter.
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- What do high schoolers think of Donald Trump?
- Runtime
- 1:14
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- The NewsTribune visited a civics class at Putnam County High School and asked the students what they thought of their president-elect, what issues they want him to solve, the election, and just politics in general.
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- Antique organ at L-P High School
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- 1:04
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Delle Vercimak, business manager for Illinois Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra, talks about the 1928 Aeolian Duo-Art Organ in La Salle-Peru Township High School’s Matthiessen Auditorium. Vercimak will accompany the youth symphony on the vintage organ during a concert Sunday.
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- War Memorial rededicated at Hall High School during Veteran's Day
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- 1:14
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Hall High School rededicated its World War II memorial Friday during Veteran's Day. The plaque is now joined by 24 trees, one for each Hall High School graduate who lost their life during the war. Kim Cabodi, who originally installed the memorial as his Eagle Scout project, spoke at the event.
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- Prep football: Sterling Newman 49, St. Bede 20
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- 1:04
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- A sluggish first half doomed the St. Bede Bruins Saturday against Sterling Newman during the Class 2A Second Round playoffs at the Abbey. The Bruins were shutout in the first half en route to a 49-20 season-ending loss. SBA finishes the season with a record of 7-4.
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- Exploring new additions of the Earlville museum
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- 1:09
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- The Earlville Historical Society is holding an open house this weekend to show off the new additions of the museum, as well as the second story which shows how Earlvillians of days gone by lived.
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- Replacing a power pole in Peru after truck hit old one
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- 1:02
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Traffic was backed up for over an hour Wednesday morning after a truck tried going down a 'No truck' side street off Route 6 in Peru. Work crews had to replace the pole that was hit by the truck.
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- TBM Avenger owner tells World War II veteran's tale
- Runtime
- 1:18
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Brad Deckert, a TBM Avenger owner, tells a survival story of Ed McConnell, a World War II veteran who survived the crashing of an Avenger during the War. On Sunday, a handful of war birds, including an Avenger, will fly over McConnell's grave.
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- Pumpkin Races in Princeton
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- 1:18
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Saturday was the fifth annual Pumpkin races in downtown Princeton. Nearly 50 pumpkins were dressed up and partook in the event, which is held by the Princeton Optimist Club.
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- Car crash at First and Joliet Streets in La Salle, 10/26/16
- Runtime
- 0:51
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Traffic was backed up at Joliet and First streets in downtown La Salle on Wednesday afternoon due to a two-car crash.
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- L-P High School Marching Cavaliers' third-place performance at ISU
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- 6:06
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- The La Salle-Peru High School Marching Cavaliers took third place in Class 2A at the 51st Annual State of Illinois Invitational High School Marching Band Championship Saturday morning at Illinois State University’s Hancock Stadium.
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- Ambulance involved in crash on Route 6 in La Salle
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- 0:41
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Two people were taken to the hospital after a Utica ambulance — believed to be transporting a person from an accident on I-80 — collided with a car Wednesday afternoon on Route 6 in front of the La Salle Fire Station.
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- Prep Football: St. Bede 49, Orion 21
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- 1:13
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- The St. Bede Academy clinched a playoff berth Friday night in Week 8 with a 49-21 win over visiting Orion at the Academy. The Bruins (6-2) scored the final 28 points of the game to win their sixth in a row after dropping their first two games of the season.
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- Meet the CEO of the Economic Development Corporation of North Central Illinois
- Runtime
- 1:31
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Ivan Baker was recently hired as the CEO of the new Economic Development Corporation of North Central Illinois. The goal of the new private/public group is to market the Illinois Valley as a place for businesses to move and invest. Baker recently sat down with the NewsTribune to discuss the economic situation of the Illinois Valley.
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- IVCH Dietitian talks healthy eating
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- 1:27
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Alyssa Salz, registered dietitian at Illinois Valley Community Hospital, recently spoke with the NewsTribune on the new and ever-changing landscape of healthy eating, and addressed some common myths of healthy foods.
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- Gov. Bruce Rauner visits Starved Rock State Park
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- 2:59
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Gov. Bruce Rauner visited Starved Rock State Park Saturday morning with his wife Diana and his dog, Stella. Before heading out onto the trails, Rauner was given a tour of the visitor's center where he spoke briefly with the media. Rauner spoke on many topics including funding for State Parks, the state financial situation, and Donald Trump.
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- Prep Football: Riverdale 40, Hall 14
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- 1:14
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Hall High School had their Homecoming spoiled as the Riverdale Rams came to town and dealt the Red Devils a 40-14 loss in Week 7 at Richard Nesti Stadium. Hall (0-7) continues to search for its first win of the season as Riverdale improved to 2-5.
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- NT Football Replay: L-P 40, Ottawa 0
- Runtime
- 1:18
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- La Salle-Peru earned their 550th win in program history in style with a dominating 40-0 win over their rivals from Ottawa on homecoming in week 6. The Cavs beat Ottawa (1-5) for the second straight year and improved to 2-4 with the win.
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- O Sole Trio performs to help save Oglesby Pool
- Runtime
- 0:56
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- O Sole Trio, headlined by Oglesby native Erin Shields, performed Wednesday night to help save the Oglesby Pool. The event raised more than $8,500 towards the $90,000 it costs to repair the pool.
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- Dedication of Witczak Memorial Highway
- Runtime
- 1:17
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Route 251 between Tonica and Mendota was dedicated Wednesday morning as the Witczak Memorial Highway, in honor of the seven Witczak brothers from Peru who all served in either World War II or the Korean War.
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- "Common Grounds" at Oglesby Lincoln
- Runtime
- 0:37
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Students in teacher Kendra Heiden's life skills class at Oglesby Lincoln Elementary are learning valuable life and business lessons running the "Common Grounds" coffee shop at the school.
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- Monarch Brass ensemble performs at Pulaski Park in La Salle
- Runtime
- 1:16
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- The Monarch Brass ensemble, a group of Illinois Valley brass-playing music teachers, performed a free concert Saturday afternoon in Pulaski Park in La Salle. The group played a wide variety of music, from pieces composed during the Renaissance to modern Disney classics. In this clip, the ensemble performs 'A Whole New World' from Aladdin.
