PACT for West Central Illinois now accepting applications for the 2023/25 program year

PACT for West Central Illinois now accepting applications for the 2023/25 program year forpregnant women and children ages birth to four who live in Adams, Brown, Cass, Hancock, McDonough, Pike, Schuyler, and Scott Counties.

Through Head Start and Early Head Start, PACT provides education, health, social services, and parent involvement. The parent engagement component emphasizes parents as the primary educator of their children. The health services include parent education, child health examinations, and where necessary, follow-up treatment in medical, dental, nutrition, and mental health for each Head Start and Early Head Start child. Services are provided either through weekly home visits with regular group experiences for the children and parents or by daily classes.

Cass-Morgan Farm Bureau FNDN Scholarship Application now open

The 2024 Cass-Morgan Farm Bureau Foundation (CMFBF) scholarship application is available online at jotform.com/cmfb1/scholarship or can be picked up at the office at 1152 Tendick St, Jacksonville.

CMFBF is seeking student applicants in Cass and Morgan counties who are pursuing a career in agriculture (undergrads only) and are members or dependents of CMFB members. Past applicants may re-apply. Please reach out to manager, Lindsay Ryan for questions at cmfb1@frontier.com or 217-245-6833.

Heart Pizza

Bread of Love – February 19-23

Monday: Holiday. Tuesday: Meatloaf with beef gravy, mashed potatoes, peas, pineapple tidbits, bread, milk. Wednesday: Baked ham, scalloped potatoes, asparagus, apricots, bread, milk.

Sweeney named to QU Dean’s List

Quincy University named Raven Sweeney, Beardstown, to its Dean’s List for the Fall 2023 semester. Honorees must earn a semester grade point average of at least 3.5 (on a 4.0 scale) to be included in the biannual Dean’s List. In total, 407 students received the honor during the Fall 2023 semester. 

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Community Calendar

Beardstown Emblem Club will hold its annual Chicken & Noodle Dinner from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, February 18 at the Beardstown Elks Lodge, 205 East 2nd Street. The menu includes chicken and homemade noodles, mashed potatoes, green beans, corn, roll and butter, dessert and a drink (tea or coffee). Prices will be for adults and children 4 to 12. Children 3 and under are free. Carry-outs will be available by calling 217-323-1000. The dinner is opened to the public.

MCS offers scholarships

MCS Community Services is offering scholarships of $2,000 to income eligible students of Morgan, Cass and Scott counties, who are already attending or are planning to attend an accredited Illinois university, college, technical or vocational school. The scholarships are provided by Community Services Block Grant, a program funded by the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.

WIU students on Dean’s List

A total of 1,183 undergraduate students enrolled at Western Illinois University were named to the Fall 2023 Dean’s List. The total includes 107  students at the WIU-Quad Cities Campus.

To receive this award, an undergraduate student must earn at least a 3.6 grade point average on a scale of 4.0, which equals an A in a minimum of 12 credit hours of graded courses; pass-fail hours are not counted (e.g., student teaching, internships).

The Tiger’s Parker McCoy looks to feed the ball inside to Ephrem Kayembe (#4).

Tigers take down Ducks

The Beardstown Tigers salvaged a rough week by blasting the Havana Ducks 71 to 44 on Senior Night last Friday.  

A hearty pot of Duck soup is just what the Tigers needed after road losses to Payson-Seymour and Pittsfield. Beardstown ended the week with a 19-9 record including 4-4 in the West Central Conference

The Beardstown Area Special Athletes had a very successful district basketball tournament with the Beardstown Blitz placing 3rd, the Orange Crush placing 2nd and the Black Attack (pictured with coaches) bringing home 1st Place. The Black Attack will compete in the State Tournament in March.

Black Attack places First in BASA District Basketball Tournament

The Beardstown Area Special Athletes had a very successful district basketball tournament with the Beardstown Blitz placing 3rd, the Orange Crush placing 2nd and the Black Attack (pictured with coaches) bringing home 1st Place.  The Black Attack will compete in the State Tournament in March.

Beardstown's Garrett Dailey (far right) placed fourth in the IHSA Wrestling Sectional at Geneseo and will wrestle in the State Tournament starting Thursday, Feburary 15 in Champaign.

Dailey is State bound – BHS and BJHS Wrestling Results

Beardstown junior wrestler Garrett “Chunk” Dailey will join an impressive list of Tiger grapplers who have earned the right to wrestle on the grandest of stages, the Illinois High School State Wrestling Tournament. 

Dailey placed fourth in the Olympia Sectional at 285 to punch his ticket to the big dance at the State Farm Center on the campus of the University of Illinois starting Thursday, February 15.