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Volume 153 — Number 25
THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2015
ONE SECTION — 12 PAGES
STIFF, EDWARDS
SET NEW MARKS
Past Week
A Record
Setter
By Chris Slack
It was a memorable week
for more than one reason for
the Arcola High School girls’
basketball team.
In addition to milestone
achievements by head coach
Nancy Stiff and four-year
senior
starter
Taylor
Edwards, the Purple Riders
captured the program’s first
Little Okaw Valley Conference Tournament championship in 21 years.
The week of milestones
began last Thursday when
the Purple Riders gave Stiff
her 700th career win. A 1997
inductee into the Illinois
Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame, Stiff is
believed to be one of only six
high school coaches in Illinois
girls’ basketball history to
achieve such a lofty wins
total.
After Saturday’s win over
Palestine-Hutsonville in the
title game of the LOVC
finals, Stiff’s overall record is
701-317. She is pictured
above left receiving the game
ball from Argenta-Oreana
Athletic
Director
Dan
Sheehan after Arcola’s 52-38
win over Arthur-Lovington/Atwood-Hammond in the
title game of the LOVC
Northwest Division Tournament. The tournament was
hosted by A-O.
Edwards wasn’t far behind
in reaching her own milestone.
On Saturday, as the Purple
Riders were en route to
defeating Palestine-Hutsonville 51-39 in the LOVC
finals, Edwards eclipsed the
Arcola girls’ career scoring
record formerly held by 1985
graduate Angie Little. With
her 18-point effort against
Palestine, Edwards has
scored 1,360 points in her
career. Including Monday’s
game against ALAH at
Arthur, Arcola has four regular season games remaining,
plus the postseason tournament.
Little amassed 1,351 points
in her career.
Edwards, who missed the
first 14 games of the season
due to a broken bone in her
foot, is pictured above right
with her parents, Lisa and
Jeff Edwards, and her brother, Beau, as Arcola celebrates
its tournament title at
Arthur.
Not since the 1993-94 season has the Purple Rider
girls’ basketball program won
an LOVC tourney title. In
DOUGLAS COUNTY BOARD
T E N TAT I V E
AG E N DA
Firm Hired To Do Appraisals
By Chris Slack
The Douglas County Board has opted
to team up with a firm that specializes
in industrial appraisals.
At its monthly meeting on January
21, the board unanimously voted to contract with Vanguard Appraisals of
Cedar Rapids, IA, to conduct reappraisals of 14 major industrial property sites in the county.
Sites scheduled to be appraised
include industrial sites Equistar, Cabot,
Panhandle and Trunkline; and licensed
grain elevators Arthur Grain Co.,
Camargo Grain (Camargo), Camargo
Grain (Villa Grove), ICM Grain
(Hindsboro), ICM Grain (Filson), Tabor
Grain (Newman), Topflight Grain
(Atwood) and Okaw Co-op (Arcola).
According to the contract submitted
to the county by Vanguard President
Robert Ehler, all revaluation work is
scheduled to be completed by October
1, 2016, at a total cost of $46,500. The
cost of appraising the four industrial
sites is $25,000 ($6,250 per site). The
10 grain elevators will be appraised at
a cost to the county of $21,500 ($2,150
per site).
It was noted at the meeting that the
present appraisals on the 14 properties
are out of date and “not up to the detail
needed for setting the correct (equalized
assessed valuation) for the county.”
The buildings will be described by
their component parts individually,
priced at the current replacement cost
and depreciated according to age, condition and function.
The appraisal work is scheduled to
begin by March 2016.
County board member Mike Carroll
said Supervisor of Assessments Rena
Cain approached the board about
obtaining new appraisals of industrial
properties. He added it’s important to
have an expert do industrial appraisals,
which are more complicated than home
appraisals.
ALSO AT THE MEETING
Closed Loop Well System
Ordinance Gets Board OK
The board approved a Douglas County
closed loop well system ordinance which
regulates the construction and/or reconstruction of closed loop well systems and
requires a registration certificate for the
private contractors who install, modify
or seal these systems in the county.
It was stated in the ordinance that
improper installation, modification or
sealing of closed loop well systems poses
a significant threat to the health and
welfare of Douglas County residents.
A closed loop well is defined as a
sealed, watertight loop of pipe buried
outside of a building foundation
intended to re-circulate a liquid solution through a heat exchanger, but is
limited to the construction of the borehole, piping in the borehole, heat
exchange fluid, and the grouting of the
borehole and does not include the piping and appurtenances used in other
capacities.
A closed loop well system means a
clustered group of closed loop wells that
serve the same facility.
Other Board News
• The renewal for fiscal year 2015 of
16 county bridge fund petitions previously approved by the board received a
unanimous OK at last Wednesday’s
meeting.
Among the petitions are several in the
Arcola, Bourbon and Bowdre road districts, including:
See County Board...p. 3
Stiff’s 42 seasons as the only
coach in Arcola girls’ history,
the Purple Riders have now
won eight tournament titles.
Five of those championships
came consecutively from
1982 to 1986.
For more on Arcola’s run to
the LOVC division and overall titles, see this week’s
Record-Herald sports section
on page 7.
Arcola City Council
Monday, February 2 • 7 p.m.
• Roll call
• Pledge of Allegiance
• Public comment
OLD BUSINESS
• Approval of January 19 council meeting minutes
• Approval of January 17-30 bills
• Approval of treasurer’s report for January
• Approval of January zoning officer’s report
NEW BUSINESS
• Report from the Plan Commission
• Report from the TIF Advisory Committee
• Consider and approve a donation to the Strides
Against Hunger event
COMMITTEE REPORTS
• Terry Foran
• Casey Reece
• Dave VanDeveer
• Kendall Moore
• Sue Key
• John Guyot
COMMITTEE MEETINGS
6 p.m. — Budget & Finance Committee
6:30 p.m. — Police, Ordinance & Enforcement
Committee
WHAT’S ON THE COMMUNITY AGENDA?
Spring Soccer Registration
Arcola Recreation spring 2015 soccer registration
will be held at the Arcola Moore Park soccer concession stand for ages preschool (4 yrs old) through
eighth grade on Saturday, January 31, from 9 a.m.
to noon and Saturday, February 7, from 9 a.m. to
noon. For more information, please visit the website
at www.arcolarec.org/soccer or email: [email protected].
Chamber Community Dance
The Arcola Chamber of Commerce will sponsor
its annual community dance February 21 at the
Best Western PLUS hotel, located on the Green
Mill Village property in Arcola. The dance is open
to the general public; it is not restricted to those
who are Chamber members. The theme of this
year’s community dance will revolve around the
roaring 20s, the Great Gatsby. For more information, call the Chamber of Commerce at 268-4530.
Distinguished Alumni
Nominations
Arcola Alumni Association is seeking nominations
for the Arcola Distinguished Alumni awards to be
designated in 2015. Forms are available at the
Arcola Record-Herald, Arcola High School, Arcola
Public Library, Arcola First Bank, First Mid-Illinois
Bank & Trust and on the alumni website at
www.arcolaalumni.org.
You may also contact selection committee members Randy Rothrock, Pat Fortney, Jim Clark, Sue
Stout, Rick Klopfleisch, Emily Coombe or Brad
Pullen to request a form. Nominations are due by
Monday, April 6.
CIPT Hosts Public Meeting
Central Illinois Public Transit (CIPT) will be
hosting an Advisory Council meeting at 10:30 a.m.
on Thursday, February 5, in the basement of the
Tuscola Library. It is open to the public and all are
encouraged to attend. Come tell CIPT officials your
transportation needs, concerns with the program,
and suggestions on how CIPT can better serve the
community. Transportation to the meeting is available by calling 1-855-755-2478 at least 24 hours in
advance.
Class Of 1975 Reunion
Being Planned
The Arcola High School Class of 1975 is planning its 40-year class reunion. Class members are
asked to send their addresses to
[email protected].
Masonic Lodge Meeting
Arcola Masonic Lodge 366 will hold its monthly
meeting at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 3, at
299 Egyptian Trail. All Master Masons are welcome to attend.
Storytime Returns At Library
The Arcola Public Library has resumed its weekly storytime each Wednesday at 10 a.m. Afterschool programs are also being held each
Wednesday at 4 p.m. Programs will continue
through May 20. Among the program themes will
be Friendship/Valentine’s Day, Happy Healthy
Teeth, Bird Watching, Easter, Earth Day, Airplanes
and “Bug, Bugs and More Bugs.” The May 20 program is themed “Let’s Go Camping.” For more
information, call the library at 268-4477.
IN THIS WEEK’S ISSUE
Classifieds ........................................10
Courthouse News..............................4
Obituaries ..........................................6
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