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(From Toluca Front Page)tests, EMC staff has also been forced to reduce their interactions within the communities. This in-cludes local car shows, meetings and town celebrations.

The vital role EMTs, Paramed-ics and all First Responders play in ensuring public safety during this unprecedented time is one that cannot be taken lightly. Emer-gency Personnel will still be pres-ent and available in the respective communities for events and cel-ebrations but may not be as visible as years past.

The service wishes to remind residents to exercise best practic-es to help eliminate the spread of COVID-19 and we look forward to renewing normalcies with commu-nity assistance like blood pressure checks, etc. in the future.

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By Kevin Bessler | The Center Square An East Peoria business is on a mission to reduce the threat of the invasive Asian carp in the Illinois River and offer up a healthy meal. Asian carp were imported by Arkansas fish farmers in the 1970s to control plankton in rearing ponds. However, during floods the carp escaped captivity and began

reproducing in the wild, develop-ing large populations in the early 1980s. They eventually moved northward to Illinois. Now fish-ermen say there are hundreds of millions of pounds of Asian carp, which damages the ecosystem of the Illinois River. Roy Sorce, owner of Sorce En-terprises, has teamed up with the

Illinois Food Distributor Plans To Offer Asian CarpMidwest Fishing Co-op to reduce the numbers of the fish and put an-other protein on the dinner table. “We are talking about 15 to 20 million pounds a year and that would help reduce the numbers and also less risk of them getting to the Great Lakes,” Sorce said. Sorce recently received approval to quickly freeze harvested fish from the river for shipment to pro-cessing facilities. The minced, still-frozen fish are then returned to his business for storage and eventual sale. The idea of serving Asian carp from the Illinois River at the dinner table is not a new one, but previous efforts to convince people to par-take have failed to gain widespread appeal. The carp is a familiar staple in many foreign countries. Sorce said Asian carp is low on contaminants and one of the healthiest fish available. “It is very tasty. It has no fishy taste to it. If you eat salmon or tuna, you taste that. With this, you only taste what you put in there,” Sorce said.

By Kevin Bessler | The Center Square Despite fewer cars on the roads because of pandemic restrictions, traffic crashes are becoming more deadly. The National Safety Council, based in Itasca, reports a 23.5 per-cent increase in the fatality rate in May compared to last year. Lorraine Martin, the president of the NSC, said the pandemic has exposed our national road safety culture for what it really is. “It is clear that our open roads have created somewhat of an open season for reckless driving,” Mar-tin said. The number of miles driven in May dropped 25.5% compared to the year prior. Overall, the mileage death rate per 100 million vehicle miles driven was 1.47 in May com-pared to 1.19 in 2019.

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Jonathon Adkins, executive di-rector of the Governor’s Highway Safety Association, said drivers are ignoring the speed limit by a wide margin. “Speed has been a dramatic problem for us,” Adkins said. “Folks are real excited to be out on the roads and are not used to see-ing empty roads and they are tak-ing advantage.” There have been 511 fatalities in Illinois so far this year, which is comparable to last year, despite far less traffic. Cook and the surround-ing counties lead the state in traffic fatalities. In downstate Illinois, the Metro East, Macon, Champaign and Peoria counties lead the way. Jake Nelson, the director of traf-fic safety, advocacy and research with AAA, said that speed is the main contributing factor in the

higher death rate. “Speed camera data that re-corded as high as a 16% increase in drivers going 50% faster than the posted speed limit, and we have not seen that speed problem in other parts of the world,” Nelson said.

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Three Sheets in The Wind . . . by Mary

So, there is nothing going on here. I sweep the floor, dust a little, wash dog slobber off the window in the door. Some days I throw a load of wash in the machine. That, naturally, leads to an intense 10 minutes of folding and putting away. I cook. Enough said about cooking. Once you start, there's re-ally no end. There's no retirement, no farewell to the kitchen party. So, I cook.

Today, I had a surprise visit from some younger people, much younger. Somehow in the conver-sation, we were evidently talk-ing about birds, an old tune came to mind. "Hey bird dog get away from my quail. Hey bird dog you're on the wrong trail. Bird dog you better find a chicken little of your own." Do you know it? Do you remember Phil and Don, the Everly brothers? Probably not. I'm really old.

Anyway, I was thinking, be-cause there's not much else to do and it beats dwelling on the PAN-DEMIC, about all the old goofy songs. It seems to me that mu-sic has gotten really serious. Of course, in my youth, we had our share of sorrowful, mournful songs like Endless Sleep, Last Kiss, Teen Angel and even Running Bear, tragic love gone wrong songs. But a lot of the best, old tunes are ri-diculous, funny, and, in spite of the crazy lyrics, great to hear every once in a while.

And, some of those oldies but goodies taught us lessons. For ex-ample. Did you know “they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles and they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn’t go” during the famous battle of New Orleans? Old Hick-ory led the troops in 1814, and Johnny Horton put it on the music charts in 1959.

UFOs were something new to worry about in the 50’s and 60’s, but who could really be afraid of the Purple People Eater, the one eyed, one horned flying variety.

There were lessons to be learned and questions to be asked. “Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?” Seriously, does it?

The music was a reflection of what was in “style” at the time like that blue dress lady and her ac-

cessories, “Wearin’ a wighat and shades to match; Got high heel sneakers and an alligator hat.” I’ve had so much fun thinking about all these old songs that I find myself wondering “who put the ram in the ramalamadingdong?”

Maybe I’m getting carried away with all these wild lyrics, but the music is so much fun, and my friend and I paid good money to see Sam the Sham and the Pha-raohs. (You know who you are.) And, how many midnights, one more night without sleeping did I wonder just what was behind that Green Door.

Monday, August 17Timber Ridge Golf CourseOVERALL TEAM SCORES

1. Brimfield ........................................... 3282. Eureka ............................................... 3383. Fieldcrest ............................... 3514. Roanoke-Benson ........................... 3575. Midland ................................. 3906. Stark County ................................... 4337. Seneca ................................................. NS8. Marquette .......................................... NS9. Henry-Senachwine ......................... NS

TOP FIVE INDIVIDUALS1. Jeremy Ott (Brimfield) ....................692. Koy Allen (Fieldcrest) ......................773. Lucas Groeper (Brimfield) .............784. DJ Norman (Roanoke-Benson) ....795. Lucas Bernardi (Fieldcrest) ............79

Midland ScoresGavin Pyles ..............................................83Brett Smith ..............................................89Brandon Collins .....................................99Jacob Streitmatter ............................. 119

Fieldcrest ScoresKoy Allen ..................................................77Lucas Bernardi .......................................79Isaac Morse .............................................86Jordan Hochecker ............................. 109

Henry-Senachwine ScoresAyden Malvoti ........................................89Mason Johnson .................................. 102Brady Neuhalfen ................................ 116Gavyn Nave .........................................DNF

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