Hurricane story about rural Minonk resident's brother
I believe some will find this story of the hurricane affecting my
brother in Shepherd Texas interesting. Al Devine is a self employed
fishing guide. He learned years ago that the big fish swim upriver and
stay by the dam. The DNR will not allow fishing boats to get near the
dam and have marked the area below the dam with a cable so that no one
may cross. Al built an aluminum pontoon boat with a casting platform.
He also constructed extra long fishing poles from really big salt water
tackle. He can cast the length of 2 football fields enabling him to
place the bait just below the dam. His fishing parties routinely catch
big stripers, alligator gar, and catfish. One of his guests has caught
the lake record alligator gar just under 300lb. The boat Al built stays
anchored just below the Lake Livingston dam or at least it did until
the hurricane. The water from the lake blew against the dam with such
force that authorities ordered the flood gates opened wide because they
were worried the earthen dam would wash out. My brother's boat was
washed away. He found it recently by flying with a friend that is a
private pilot. His boat is in good shape but over 100 miles down stream
in a shallow sand bar filled region. I am not sure he well be able to
retrieve it.http://www.texasfishingguides.org/devine/> Jack Daniel Devine
gunssavelivesnow@yahoo.com
Minonk
Births web page error discovery Dave-
It would appear that the birth page problem is specifically an "Internet Explorer" problem.
I use NetZero, and have called them. They said the problem was with the page itself.
I
then tried to access the birth page from IVCC, same error message
displays, and they have their internet provided through sattelite dish.
I discovered that this problem occurs with Internet Explorer, but does not occur with Mozilla Firefox....
I
have been using Mozilla and do not have a problem viewing the page.
Your readers need to know this. I know several people last spring wrote
in to the email section talking about how much safer Mozilla is to surf
the web. I had already been using it before then (thanks to the
Willis'!) and am impressed with the results. Since using Mozilla, my
Spysweeper rarely finds spyware or adware on my computer! Feel free to
use this email on the site so others know--perhaps re-printing the
archived emails would help too.
Attached is the error code when using Internet Explorer.
"Problems
with this web page might prevent it from being displayed properly or
functioning properly. In the future, you can display this message by
double clicking the warning icon displayed in the status bar.
Line: 435
Char: 1
Error: Syntax error
Code: 0
URL: /births.aspx "
Hope this will help!
Chris JenkinsEditor's
note: Thanks to Chris's letter I found that the bug did indeed exist
only with Internet Explorer. Further investigation revealed that there
was a javascript coding bug which I corrected. The Mozilla browser
obviously was more forgiving and ignored the coding error.
Nevertheless, the problem has been fixed and I agree with Chris in that
everyone should use the Mozilla browser as it is more secure and less
buggy than Internet Explorer. The Mozilla browser can be downloaded
from the following web site. Thanks for the help, Chris.
Minonk family moving to Arizona Dave,
I would like to let everyone know ,that Gloria and Daniel Cosby are
moving to Bullhead City AZ. Gloria has sold her home after many years.
She worked at many places in Minonk last working at Casey's. Daniel has
worked at SMF and his last day will be Oct. 28,2005.
They will being flying out of Peoria Airport on November 4th and her
son Bill and his wife Crystal will leave early that night and will be
driving their belongings to AZ. for them.
They will be missed by their family they are leaving behind, but are
going to be closer to her daughter and sister Sue Cordray. We wish them
all the happiness in the world! Good Luck and God bless them. Love her family...The Cosby's
Community soccer team in 1st place Dave,
I
was wanting to let the community know how well the 7th - 8th grade
soccer players have been doing thus far this season. As part of the El
Paso Recreational Traveling team, participating in the ICSL (Inter
Community Soccer League); Brianna Palmore, Brittney Coons, Dylan
Palmore, and Dylan Zimmerman, along with their teammates from El
Paso-Gridley, and Evan Armagast from Flanagan have a record of 5 wins 0
losses and 1 Tie.
Having defeated Northern Tazewell, East
Peoria, Olympia, Washington East, Washington West, with the tie being
with Morton. The El Paso-Gridley-Minonk-Flanagan players are currently
in 1st place going into next week's end of the season game with
Germantown #1 Saturday Oct. 22nd.
The ICSL league tournament
will take place the week of Oct. 24th at East Peoria Eastside center.
The players are looking forward to having the same success as two years
ago when they came from behind to win the league championship.
If anyone is interested in any information for the league, the web-site home page is www.icsl.homestead.com
Organization
for a High School Soccer Program is currently in the works. If you are
interested in helping, please contact Mike Zimmerman. The kids have the
ability to compete at the next level, they just need the opportunity.
Mike Zimmerman
(Work) 309-527-1515
Wants to trade papers I subscribe to both the Bloomington Pantagraph and the Peoria Journal Star.
I would be interested in trading those with someone in Minonk who subscribes to the Wall Street Journal.Madelon Young 309-432-2825
Complexing thoughts on blogs
Autumn is a time for TRUTH, and I suppose DEATH too. My Fuji apples are
ready for harvest and the grape arbor's leaves are turning brown and it
is probably ready for it's annual curtailment which reminds me about a
growing political movement . This article came about as a result of
looking at BLOG sites. Some one else coined the word SPINSANITY or
letting the BLAME GAME begin. The following ambiguous words came from
culling through political tales and their BLOGS. As I read through many
OFFICIAL sites I was ambivalent about any VIRULENT THINKTANKERS along
with INSIDER HACKS whose steadfast and disturbing discernment of
JUDICAL PHILOSOPHY and GOVERNMENTAL POLICY involving prep aridness and
PANDEMIC CREDABILITY plus the assuaging of MISGUIDED citizens and
wannabe's whose policy includes SCENERIOS on a consumption tax. There
are both LEFT and RIGHT Wing militants plus BIPOLAR Evangelists whose
steadfast gullification includes FUZZY MATH exit strategy and an
ascription to a HIGHER PURPOSE of our topsy turvy dislike of RPG's that
vilify our TACTICAL BLUNDERS! And that's a WRAP! Oops, I forgot the
FEMA foolduggery "floodgate". PS, my embedded source was my large dictionary, identical to the one used by all the White House personnel. Albie Johnson
Next CAC Meeting October 12th The next CAC meeting will be Wednesday October 12th at 7:30 p.m in room 207 at the Fieldcrest High School.
Thanks,
Garilyn Wells
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Woodford County is now part of Freecycle Hello Dave
I want to bring to your attention the new group that's sweeping the world.
Freecycle
is a non-profit group that allows people from all over the world to
post their unwanted items on the Freecycle site and give them to
someone who could make use of them rather than have them taken to the
landfills.
The great thing about Freecycle is that almost EVERY
County/City/Town across the world has it's own exclusive club, so you
dont have to worry about getting that unwanted piano to London.
The
reason I'm writing to you today is to announce that Woodford County is
now part of the Freecycle organization. Anyone can join by going to
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WoodfordCountyFreecycle/.
It's a great way to rid yourself of your unwanted items and meet new people who live in the same county.
I
know you have readers from across the world too, so for those of you
who do not live in Woodford County, you can visit www.Freecycle.org for
a group in your area.
I hope you let all your readers know about Freecycle, and I hope to see them all there soon.
Vaughan
Woodford County Freecycle Moderator.
Visitors in town
Matt, Mary and Katie Cornell of Amherst, MA, visited Madelon Young and
friends in Minonk last week. They left Wednesday for Chicago to see
Dave Cornell and Mary's brother and Ann Pfister, formerly of El Paso.
Additional soccer scores Dave,
As
a side note to Mike Zimmerman's soccer team scores, the El Paso 12 and
under soccer team is in second place in their league, with 4 wins, 1
tie and 1 loss. Patrick Luckey from Minonk has played for this team for
two of his four years in soccer. We sure hope to play high school
soccer someday!
Tracy Luckey
(Proud Mom)
CAC to hold extra meeting on Oct. 26th
The CAC will be having an extra meeting this month. It is scheduled for
Oct. 26th at 7:30 p.m. in Room 207 at the High School. We will be
discussing possible new directions for the CAC during the coming year.Click here for the current members names and numbers.
Garilyn Wells
Information about canine influenza
URBANA -- The University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine has
established a Web page with information about canine influenza, which
has spread to pet dogs in 10 states after first being diagnosed in
January 2004 at a Florida greyhound track.No cases in Illinois have been reported. The U of I site is at www.cvm.uiuc.edu/petcolumns/showarticle.cfm?id=475. The
flu strain is a mutation of an equine influenza virus and is not known
to infect humans or poultry. The dog virus is highly contagious, can
last for several weeks and potentially be fatal without treatment.
Symptoms are similar to kennel cough, including sneezing, coughing and
fever. Anyone
who suspects a pet dog may have contracted the canine flu should
consult a veterinarian. Treatment has been successful in about 95
percent of known cases.
http://www.pantagraph.com/stories/101405/new_20051014039.shtml
C. Jenkins
Hurricane scams Hi Dave;
We
have over 100 Hurricane victims living in the closest town here in
Kentucky. I think most will go back, but some got jobs and places to
live and like it here and decided to stay. Here is how our tax money is
spent. Dave tattoo's at a shop in Tn. and two men came in from New
Orleans last week and got tattoos! Its his job and he gave them one,
but he said that is just not right and it did not sit well with me. In
Ky. the red Cross investigated and found the debit cards were used at
places like Victoria's secret's and Hooter's etc. It does not take long
for the scams to set in does it? Wanda Patterson
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