Kaitlyn Copley

Kaitlyn Copley

  • Joined: August 2, 2023
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Bits & Pieces – The scariest ride of my life!

Bits and pieces

Happy New Year friends! We made it to 2024 and everyone looks great! Wishing all of you the very best for this new year!

Looking back on past years, I’m reminded of the new year in 1973. It looked like any other new year except for one thing....I was pregnant with our second baby. Back in those days we didn’t have the technology that we do today, like telling what sex your baby will be, your due date, which was a lot more accurate than figuring up days according to your last cycle and even baby’s weight estimate now is more accurate.

Focus on Faith – “Not-So-Wise Men”

Focus on Faith

As with most popular stories, the arrival of the three wise men (or kings) at the manger on Christmas night has been a little embellished. We have a tendency to add details that aren’t actually there in the text. Details that are necessary in order to paint paintings or put on pageants or make movies. The Bible rarely gives us a script ready for reproduction. That’s why we smash Matthew’s Christmas story and Luke’s Christmas story together and put up nativity scenes with as many people (and animals) as we can get.    

Community Calendar

Calendar-Winter

Beardstown Regional Flood Prevention Disrict meeting is set for 10 a.m. Thursday, January 4, 2024 at the Beardstown Sanitary  District in Beardstown.

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   The Cass County Courthouse will be closed Monday, January 15 in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

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    A-C Central Community Unit School District No.262 will hold its regular Board of Education meeting at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 17, 2024 in the Board Conference Room, 501 W. Buchanan Street in Ashland.

Bread of Love – January 8 – 12

Bread of Love

Monday - Fried chicken, mashed potatoes & chicken gravy, peas, pears, bread, milk. Tuesday - Salisbury steak in gravy, broccoli, applesauce, rice pilaf, bread, milk. Wednesday - BBQ chicken breast, egg noodles, roasted potatoes, mixed veggies, mandarin oranges, bread, milk.

Looking Back – The great Illinois 

The Illinois last invaded downtown Beardstown in October of 1926. (CIPS Photo, Leigh Morris collection.)

Illinois is a state, but “the Illinois” only can describe the great river that runs 271 miles from its source to the Mississippi at Grafton.

It is not the nation’s longest river nor its widest. The slow moving Illinois is anything but wild – though she does have her moments. 

The Illinois would not even be navigable for most of her length much of the year were it not for dredging and the locks and dams. In fact, long before the dams and the runoff from cities and untold acreage covered by asphalt and concrete, there were places were a man could easily walk from one bank to another during the summer months.

Tiger’s wrestle at Abe’s Rumble

Pictured on the left are the Tiger JV Wrestlers after their match in Springfield (L/R): CJ Evans, Caleb Hobrock, Bradley Locklear and Carter Davis. Pictured on the right are Layla Garcia (left) and Daisy Gil who wrestled at the first annual Jacksonville Girls Wrestling Tournament.

The Beardstown Tiger Wrestling team capped a busy week and the calendar year by participating in the prestigious Abe’s Rumble in Springfield.  Earlier in the week the Tigers competed in a girls meet at Jacksonville and a Junior Varsity match at Springfield Southeast.  

Layla Garcia and Daisy Gil took to the mats for the Lady Tigers in the very first Jacksonville Girls’ Tourney and had a very good day.  Daisy finished in Fourth Place at 120 pounds while Layla won the Consolation Championship at 135 pounds.

Tigers fall in consolation championship

For the first time in several years the Beardstown Tigers played on the fourth and final day of the Williamsville Holiday Tournament. The Tigers rebounded from a tough opening round loss to Delavan to beat Deer Creek Mackinaw and Illini Central and earn a birth in the Consolation Championship game. Beardstown ran completely out of gas in their fourth game in four days in the championship tilt and fell badly to Tremont.  

Tough LTC for Lady Tigers

Some rough shooting games combined with the usual tough competition of the Lady Tiger Classic led to the host school going 1-3 in the tourney.  The Tigers had already faced all four teams they played, and the results were the same in each contest the second time around.

Two wins at classic for Lady Trojans 

Trojans

The Triopia-Meredosia-Virginia Lady Trojans rode their defense to two wins in the Lady Tiger Classic knocking off Pleasant Hill-Western and Beardstown. The defense played well in losses to West Central and Havana but the Trojans could not overcome their offensive struggles against the Cougars and Ducks.

Trojans top Tornadoes at Waverly

Basketball

The Triopia Trojan boys’ basketball team picked up a win in the first round of the Waverly Tournament then ran up against two tough WIVC Conference foes to bow out with a 1-2 record. The Trojans used a huge third quarter in the opener to pull away from Tri-City and win 59 to 46. A poor third quarter hurt the Trojans in their 58 to 30 second round loss to West Central. The final quarter was the difference in their tourney ending 44 to 32 loss to Greenfield-Northwestern.