I admire those who know their way around the kitchen and know what they’re doing when they’re cooking.
I was raised by one of the best cooks ever---my mom. Although she never learned how to cook while growing up, she was married at 16 and a mother at the age of 21. As a young bride, she knew she had a lot to learn in the area of cooking. The one person that took her under her wing was her mother-in-law, my dad’s mom, Grandma Rahn.
JBS USA has been awarded 2023 Processor of the Year honors by Food Processing magazine and over 2,000 workers in Beardstown, along with more than 67,000 US employees, helped lead the way to earning this prestigious distinction.
Lincoln Land Community College (LLCC) has announced its full-time and part-time President’s and Vice President’s lists for the fall 2023 semester.
Full-time students who earned a 4.0 grade point average (GPA) are noted with an asterisk and earned President’s list honors. Full-time students who earned between a GPA of 3.5-3.99 earned Vice President’s list honors. Full-time students are enrolled in 12 or more credit hours.
The Cass-Morgan Farm Bureau Young Leaders will be at Hy-Vee in Jacksonville on from 9 a.m. Noon Saturday, February 10th, to collect can food items to donate to the local food bank. They are partnering with Sloan Implement in Riggston who is bringing their John Deere Gator UTV to fill up with dry and can goods. Sloan is also graciously matching $1 per donated item. CMFB will also be giving away some items to donors while supplies last!
The average Christian is afraid of at least one book in the Bible: Revelation. The visions given to St. John of the Beast and the Dragon are startling, but really we are taken aback by the wholesale destruction of the earth. Plagues, stars falling, Death riding a pale horse. These images are a far cry from Jesus carrying a sheep in His arms or God helping us to mount up with wings like eagles. Nevertheless, I assure you, the book of Revelation wasn’t meant to scare or terrify us. It was written to do the exact opposite: comfort us.
For the second straight year, the season of a very good Triopia Trojan eighth grade basketball team was ended by a very good Pawnee eighth grade basketball team.
After a second-round win over a pesky Springfield Little Flower team, the young Trojans lost to Pawnee 39 to 32 in the Regional Championship game held at Springfield Blessed Sacrament last Thursday.
The Beardstown Lady Tigers picked up a conference win and a nice momentum builder heading to regionals with a 46 to 43 road win last Thursday over the Mendon Unity Mustangs. The Mustangs were 15-11 prior to the loss and had beaten the Tigers 43 to 27 on November 18 and 42 to 29 in the Lady Tiger Classic. Beardstown opened the week with a tough 55 to 54 conference road loss to Liberty on Tuesday.
The AADM (All About Dance & More) Airborne Team attended an USTA Invitational meet at the Stephen Decatur Middle School in Decatur, on Jan. 27th-28th.
This meet was an open invitational meet, hosting 31 clubs. There were 25 athletes from the Airborne team that competed in 65 events total on tumbling, trampoline, and double mini. Seventy-four percent of these athletes placed in the top 5 in their events, placed 9th in the overall team finals, and 64 event scores earned a 9.0 or higher in scoring (out of a 10). A team challenge that athletes have is to beat their top scores from previous meets. There were 20 scores that beat their personal best scores at this meet. Athletes were coached at this meet by Sara Hoots, Sarah Allen, Emery Maliongas, Pyper Sussenbach, Alyssa Campbell.
The Virginia Redbird eighth grade boys’ basketball season ended with a second-round regional loss to the top seeded hosts, Augusta Southeastern.
It was an ominous start for the Birds as they failed to score in the opening quarter but found themselves only down by five. A 14 to 6 second frame gave the Suns a 19 to 6 halftime lead. They would stretch the margin to 26 to 9 after three quarters. The Redbirds won the fourth period 10 to 5 but it was too little too late in the season ending 31 to 19 loss.
The PORTA-AC Central Lady Bluejays moved to 26-1 on the season with two more dominating conference wins over Williamsville and Illini Central last week. The Jays received a first round regional bye and will play the winner of Waverly and Williamsville at the Riverton Regional at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, February 12.