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Tuesday, July 28, 2020 5BThe Telegraph ALTON TELEGRAPH CLASS 01 072820
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LEGALS
20-0530
NOTICE OF BID
Wood River TownshipHighway Department isaccepting bids for the
removal andreplacement of curb
and gutter. Bids will beaccepted until 11:00
a.m., Monday, August12, 2020, at the Wood
River TownshipʼsHighway
Commissionerʼs Office,41 S. 9th Street, EastAlton, IL 62024. Bids
must be sealed, markedand delivered to the
office and will beopened publicly at thattime. Prevailing rate ofwages must be paid.Bids will be good for
one year.Specifications are on
file at the HighwayCommissionerʼs officeand will be furnished tobidder upon request. All
bidders must do anon-site inspection of the
job site prior tosubmitting bids.
Prevailing rate of wagesmust be paid. Bids willbe good for one year.
The HighwayCommissioner
reserves the right toaccept or reject any or
all bids.
LEGALS
20-2478
Due to default inpayment of rent, goodsstored in the following
storage unit(s) atMETRO EAST
MINI-STORAGEof Wood River
will be sold on-line after9:00 AM on August 5,
2020.
#111 Nick Churchich#412 Eric Cox
#247Christina Delancey
#ʼs 82 & 107 David Feig#285 James Johnson
#201 Nolan Logan#177 Paul Riess#ʼs 94, 277 & 284
Lynn Sabin#243
Jessica Schuessler#240 Unknown
Lost & Found
LOST DOG:
Female French Mastiffand Bull Dog Mix,
Brindle Color w/ WhiteNose and Chest, Miss-
ing From Milnor St.,(Close to the Circle) inAlton. She is Chipped.
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Tuesday, July 28, 2020 7BThe Telegraph ALTON TELEGRAPH CLASS 03 072820
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Auctions
of toy tractors and equipment.Mostly all in their originalpackaging. John Deere,Oliver, White, IH, Case, CaseIH, Ford, Ford New Holland,Fordson, Massey Ferguson,Allis Chalmers, Deutz Allis,Minneapolis Moline, MasseyHarris, Ferguson, Cockshutt,Hesston, Tonka and Arcade.Also Oliver ashtrays andadvertisement items.
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Hal , Ty and Nate Langham6 1 8 - 2 6 7 - 8 4 0 0
Items on display atLangham Outdoors 822 Powder Avenue
Donnellson IL
LEGALS
20-2122A
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 3RD JUDICIAL DISTRICTMADISON COUNTY - EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOISBUSEY BANKPlaintiff,-v.-DENISE DAVIS et alDefendant2019CH000657NOTICE OF SALEPUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judg-ment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause onJune 23, 2020, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, willat 11:00 AM on August 21, 2020, at the Administration Building,157 North Main Street main entrance lobby, EDWARDSVILLE,IL, 62025, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forthbelow, the following described real estate:LOT 396 IN FLETCHER HEIGHTS SECOND SUBDIVISION, ASUBDIVISION IN THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION27, TOWNSHIP 3 NORTH, RANGE 8 WEST OF THE THIRDPRINCIPAL MERIDIAN ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THERE-OF RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 7 AT PAGE 37. SITUATED INMADISON COUNTY, ILLINOIS.Commonly known as 1123 PORTLAND AVE, COLLINSVILLE,IL 62234Property Index No. 13-2-21-27-11-201-001The real estate is improved with a single family residence.Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds atthe close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation.No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, includingthe Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential PropertyMunicipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential realestate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of theamount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certifiedfunds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. Nofee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential realestate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee,judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential realestate whose rights in and to the residential real estate aroseprior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general realestate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes leviedagainst said real estate and is offered for sale without any rep-resentation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourseto Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject toconfirmation by the court.Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will re-ceive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to adeed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiffmakes no representation as to the condition of the property.Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file toverify all information.If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unitat the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay theassessments and the legal fees required by The CondominiumProperty Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property isa condominium unit which is part of a common interest com-munity, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale otherthan a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by TheCondominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOUHAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, INACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOISMORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW.You will need a photo identification issued by a governmentagency (driver's license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry in-to our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook Countyand the same identification for sales held at other county ven-ues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosuresales.For information, examine the court file, CODILIS & ASSO-CIATES, P.C. Plaintiff's Attorneys, 15W030 NORTH FRONT-AGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL, 60527 (630) 794-9876THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATIONOne South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650(312) 236-SALEYou can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation atwww.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C.15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100BURR RIDGE IL, 60527630-794-5300E-Mail: [email protected] File No. 14-19-11249Attorney ARDC No. 00468002Case Number: 2019CH000657TJSC#: 40-1943NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, youare advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt col-lector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtainedwill be used for that purpose.Case # 2019CH000657I3152955
REAL ESTATE SALES
20-2122B
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE 3RD JUDICIAL DISTRICTMADISON COUNTY - EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOISBUSEY BANKPlaintiff,-v.-DENISE DAVIS et alDefendant2019CH000657NOTICE OF SALEPUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to a Judg-ment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the above cause onJune 23, 2020, an agent for The Judicial Sales Corporation, willat 11:00 AM on August 21, 2020, at the Administration Building,157 North Main Street main entrance lobby, EDWARDSVILLE,IL, 62025, sell at a public sale to the highest bidder, as set forthbelow, the following described real estate:Commonly known as 1123 PORTLAND AVE, COLLINSVILLE,IL 62234Property Index No. 13-2-21-27-11-201-001The real estate is improved with a single family residence.Sale terms: 25% down of the highest bid by certified funds atthe close of the sale payable to The Judicial Sales Corporation.No third party checks will be accepted. The balance, includingthe Judicial Sale fee for the Abandoned Residential PropertyMunicipality Relief Fund, which is calculated on residential realestate at the rate of $1 for each $1,000 or fraction thereof of theamount paid by the purchaser not to exceed $300, in certifiedfunds/or wire transfer, is due within twenty-four (24) hours. Nofee shall be paid by the mortgagee acquiring the residential realestate pursuant to its credit bid at the sale or by any mortgagee,judgment creditor, or other lienor acquiring the residential realestate whose rights in and to the residential real estate aroseprior to the sale. The subject property is subject to general realestate taxes, special assessments, or special taxes leviedagainst said real estate and is offered for sale without any rep-resentation as to quality or quantity of title and without recourseto Plaintiff and in "AS IS" condition. The sale is further subject toconfirmation by the court.Upon payment in full of the amount bid, the purchaser will re-ceive a Certificate of Sale that will entitle the purchaser to adeed to the real estate after confirmation of the sale.The property will NOT be open for inspection and plaintiffmakes no representation as to the condition of the property.Prospective bidders are admonished to check the court file toverify all information.If this property is a condominium unit, the purchaser of the unitat the foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, shall pay theassessments and the legal fees required by The CondominiumProperty Act, 765 ILCS 605/9(g)(1) and (g)(4). If this property isa condominium unit which is part of a common interest com-munity, the purchaser of the unit at the foreclosure sale otherthan a mortgagee shall pay the assessments required by TheCondominium Property Act, 765 ILCS 605/18.5(g-1).IF YOU ARE THE MORTGAGOR (HOMEOWNER), YOUHAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN IN POSSESSION FOR 30DAYS AFTER ENTRY OF AN ORDER OF POSSESSION, INACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 15-1701(C) OF THE ILLINOISMORTGAGE FORECLOSURE LAW.You will need a photo identification issued by a governmentagency (driver's license, passport, etc.) in order to gain entry in-to our building and the foreclosure sale room in Cook Countyand the same identification for sales held at other county ven-ues where The Judicial Sales Corporation conducts foreclosuresales.For information, examine the court file, CODILIS & ASSO-CIATES, P.C. Plaintiff's Attorneys, 15W030 NORTH FRONT-AGE ROAD, SUITE 100, BURR RIDGE, IL, 60527 (630) 794-9876THE JUDICIAL SALES CORPORATIONOne South Wacker Drive, 24th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606-4650(312) 236-SALEYou can also visit The Judicial Sales Corporation atwww.tjsc.com for a 7 day status report of pending sales.CODILIS & ASSOCIATES, P.C.15W030 NORTH FRONTAGE ROAD, SUITE 100BURR RIDGE IL, 60527630-794-5300E-Mail: [email protected] File No. 14-19-11249Attorney ARDC No. 00468002Case Number: 2019CH000657TJSC#: 40-1943NOTE: Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, youare advised that Plaintiff's attorney is deemed to be a debt col-lector attempting to collect a debt and any information obtainedwill be used for that purpose.Case # 2019CH000657I3152955
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US won’t expel migrant children detained in Texas hotelBy Nomaan MerchantAssociated Press
HOUSTON — The Trump administration has agreed not to expel a group of immigrant children it detained in a Texas hotel under an emergency declaration citing the coronavirus and will instead allow them to seek to remain in the U.S., the administration said Monday.
The move comes days after The Associated Press first reported on the U.S. government’s secre-tive practice of detaining unaccompanied children in hotels before rapidly deporting them during the virus pandemic. Gov-
ernment data obtained by AP showed the U.S. had detained children nearly 200 times over two months in three Hampton Inn & Suites hotels in Ari-zona and two Texas border cities.
But the Trump adminis-tration has not said it will stop using hotels to detain children. The legal groups that sued Friday night said they still plan to fight the larger practice in court.
Their agreement only covers 17 children known to have been detained as of Thursday at the Hampton Inn in McAllen. After the hotel’s owner said Friday it would end reservations of rooms used for child deten-tion, U.S. Immigration
and Customs Enforcement removed the children from the hotel but refused to say where it had taken them.
Now, immigration authorities will transfer the children to shelters operated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where they will have access to lawyers and should eventu-ally be placed with family sponsors as they pursue asylum cases or other immigration relief to try to remain in the country. The legal groups withdrew their request Sunday for a temporary restraining order. “The children in this hotel averted disaster only because we happened to hear about them before
they were deported, yet hundreds if not thousands of other children are being sent back to harm in secret,” said Lee Gelernt, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union. “The government must stop expelling children in secret without giving them asylum hearings.”
Federal anti-trafficking laws and a two-decade-old court settlement that governs the treatment of migrant children normally require that most children be sent to shelters oper-ated by HHS. The shelters are licensed by the states where they’re located and generally have bedrooms, recreation areas, and schooling.
Instead, more than 2,000 children have been expelled since March, when the Centers for Dis-ease Control and Preven-tion issued a declaration allowing immigration agencies to effectively shut down the asylum process out of concern about the spread of COVID-19.
The AP found that contractors paid by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have held children as young as 1 in Hampton Inns. ICE called the contractors from MVM Inc. “transportation specialists” and refused to confirm whether they had passed FBI background checks or had backgrounds in child care. Instead, it
said the contractors were “non-law enforcement staff members trained to work with minors and to ensure that all aspects of the transport or stay are compliant” with the court settlement known as the Flores agreement.
An advocate with the Texas Civil Rights Project who walked through the Hampton Inn in McAllen on July 17 saw people in scrubs going room to room on the fourth and fifth floors of the hotel caring for children. The advocate, Roberto Lopez, said he saw one small child holding onto a gate in a doorway as an adult on the other side played with him.
The Telegraph8B Tuesday, July 28, 2020
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By Marcia DunnAP Aerospace Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — With eight success-ful Mars landings, NASA is upping the ante with its newest rover.
The spacecraft Persever-ance — set for liftoff this week — is NASA’s brawni-est and brainiest Martian rover yet.
It sports the latest land-ing tech, plus the most cameras and microphones ever assembled to capture the sights and sounds of Mars. Its super-sanitized sample return tubes — for rocks that could hold evi-dence of past Martian life — are the cleanest items ever bound for space. A helicopter is even tagging along for an otherworldly test flight.
This summer’s third and final mission to Mars — after the United Arab Emirates’ Hope orbiter and China’s Quest for Heavenly Truth orbiter-rover combo — begins with a launch scheduled for Thursday morning from Cape Canav-eral. Like the other space-craft, Perseverance should reach the red planet next February following a jour-ney spanning seven months and more than 300 million miles.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine doesn’t see it as a competition. “But certainly we welcome more explorers to deliver more science than ever before,” he said following a launch review Monday, “and we look forward to seeing what it is that they’re able
to discover.”Here’s a peek at Persever-
ance:
PERSEVERANCE VS. CURIOSITY
The six-wheeled, car-sized Perseverance is a copycat of NASA’s Curios-ity rover, prowling Mars since 2012, but with more upgrades and bulk. Its 7-foot (2-meter) robotic arm has a stronger grip and bigger drill for collect-ing rock samples, and it’s packed with 23 cameras, most of them in color, plus two more on Ingenuity, the hitchhiking helicopter. The cameras will provide the first glimpse of a parachute billowing open at Mars, with two microphones let-ting Earthlings eavesdrop for the first time. Once home to a river delta and lake, Jezero Crater is NASA’s riskiest Martian landing site yet because
of boulders and cliffs, hopefully avoided by the spacecraft’s self-navigating systems. Perseverance has more self-driving capability, too, so it can cover more ground than Curiosity. The enhancements make for a higher mission price tag: nearly $3 billion.
SAMPLE COLLECTIONPerseverance will drill
into rocks most likely to hold signs of ancient life and stash the collection on the ground to await a future rover. Forty-three sample tubes are on board this rover, each one meticulously scrubbed and baked to remove Earthly microbes. NASA wants to avoid introducing organic molecules from Earth to the returning Martian samples. Each tube can hold one-half ounce of core samples, and the goal is to gather about a pound alto-
gether for return to Earth. NASA hopes to launch the pickup mission in 2026 and get the samples back on Earth by 2031 — at the soonest.
HUMAN BENEFITSBesides the helicopter,
Perseverance carries other experiments that could directly benefit astronauts at Mars. An instrument the size of a car battery will covert atmospheric carbon dioxide into oxygen, an essential ingredient for rocket propellant and breathing systems. Another instrument, zapping rocks with lasers to identify organic molecules and min-erals, carries samples of spacesuit material. NASA wants to see how the fab-rics withstand the harsh Martian environment. It will be the 2030s at best, according to NASA, before astronauts venture to Mars.
NASA’s next Mars rover is brawniest and brainiest one yet
By Samuel PetrequinAssociated Press
BRUSSELS — Belgium’s prime minister put the brakes on the country’s coronavirus exit plan Mon-day with a set of drastic social distancing measures aimed at avoiding a new general lockdown as local authorities in the province of Antwerp imposed a curfew amid a surge of COVID-19 infections.
Speaking after an urgent meeting of the national security council, Prime Minister Sophie Wilmes said that from next Wednesday contacts outside every household will be limited to the same five people over the next four weeks, as the so-called “social bubble” now applies to a house and its occupants and not to individuals. Belgian residents are currently allowed to meet with 15 different people per week.
“Our aim is clear — avoid another full lock-down,” Wilmes said.
After a sharp decline of infections, Belgium has witnessed a surge in confirmed cases over the past three weeks. According to figures released Mon-day, the number rose 71% from July 17-23 com-pared to the previous 7 days, with 47% of the cases detected in Antwerp province.
Authorities in the northern region announced extra restrictions including a curfew from 11.30 p.m. to 6 a.m and the mandatory wear of face masks in public space when a distance of 1.5 meter between individuals can’t be observed. Cafes and restaurants will also have to close at 11 p.m while remote working is required.
The number of cases also increased greatly in the rest of the country, with an average of 279 new daily cases and a 30% rise in the number of people admitted to hospital.
“I fully realize that everyone has already made heavy sacrifices in recent months. That is why it is also a great pity that we, our strong region, are now facing a very strong increase in the number of infections,” Antwerp provincial governor Cathy Berx was quoted as saying by local newspaper Gazet van Antwerpen. “Which may also lead to an increase in hospital admissions and unfortunately possibly also in the number of deaths.”
The curfew should enter into force once the decision is signed by Berx.
Wilmes said that the restrictions at federal level — which also include lowering crowd limits at public events to 100 people indoors and 200 people outdoors — could be sufficient to avoid fur-ther restrictions and to ensure children can return to school en masse in September, after the summer break.
Belgium unveils plan to avoid lockdown, curfew in Antwerp
NASA | JPL-Caltech via APThis illustration made available by NASA depicts the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on the red planet’s surface near the Perseverance rover, left. NASA is upping the ante with its newest rover headed to Mars. Set to rocket away this week from Florida, Perseverance is NASA’s brawniest and brainiest Martian rover yet.
