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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2014
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WAYNESVILLE TOWNSHIP LIBRARY
Bloomington
alderman
Diana Hauman was
sworn in as Ward 8
alderman Monday
night after the council
voted 8-0 to confirm her
appointment.
Local, A3
Rich in knowledge
Jury selection
underway
Paul Swiech
B-N in 50
Objects
It doesn’t matter how or
why a child is in need, The
Baby Fold helps them all.
Local, A4
LORI ANN COOK-NEISLER, The Pantagraph
Margie Rich visited with her granddaughter Shianne Sellner, 5, during a reception for Rich’s 50 years as a
librarian at the Waynesville Public Library. Margie Rich is retiring after 50 years as librarian at the Waynesville
Public Library. Members of the community filled the library Sunday afternoon for a reception thanking her
for her years of service.
Illinois quarterback Wes
Lunt and a young receiving
corps are trying to get on
the same page when it
comes to play calls.
Sports, B1
Waynesville librarian retiring after 50 years
Kevin Barlow
kbarlow@pantagraph.com
he day Margie Rich
remembers best from
her 50 years at the
Waynesville Township
Library was a spring day, May
15, 1968, to be exact.
About 10 kids were in the
library late that afternoon and
word came that a nasty storm
was heading toward town.
Rich, sensing the brick library
was unsafe, moved the kids to
a basement in a safer building.
“At the time, the library was
a real old building that had
been donated to the town and
it used to be a store and a trading post,” Rich said. “I was an
assistant director then, and we
took the kids out and about 10
minutes later, a tornado came
through. It blew up that building and it just fell down.”
But Rich and the library
survived. On Sunday, she was
honored by the town with an
open house, celebrating her 50
years at the library. She will be
stepping down on Wednesday.
“I am honored just to be able
to serve,” she said. “There was
never anything else I wanted to
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iPhone sale
Apple said Monday it
sold more than 10 million
iPhone 6 and 6 Plus after
it was introduced over the
weekend.
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Today’s weather symbol
was drawn by Sarah Hopt,
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“I am honored
just to be able
to serve. There
was never
anything else
I wanted to do
except work at
the library.”
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Margie Rich
do except work at the library.”
About 150 people attended
the open house, including
many who had served on the
library board or volunteered at
the library over the years.
“Our town has lost a lot of
things,” said Susie Freeman, a
former library board president.
“We have lost our schools and
many of our stores. But the
library, post office and our
repair shop have remained.
We can be very proud of our
library. When that tornado hit,
it brought our town together.
Children came and dug in the
bricks, gathering the books
out of the rubble. It wasn’t a
question of if we would have
a library, but when we would
have a library. Margie has been
through it all and we are going
to miss her.”
Rich said the library was a
very different place when she
started 50 years ago.
“It was so cold in there during the winter,” she said. “I had
to sit by the oil burner with
boots, hats, coats and gloves.
But each summer we had a
summer reading program. One
time, the Peoria zoo brought
some animals over. Back then,
they brought larger animals
and they brought a camel over.
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SEE LIBRARIAN / PAGE A2
Prosecutor: 800 rounds of ammunition
found in White House intruder’s car
Pete Yost and
Alicia A. Caldwell
WASHINGTON, D.C.
— Investigators found
more than 800 rounds of
ammunition, a machete
and two hatchets in the
car of the former soldier
accused of scaling the
White House fence and
sprinting inside the building while carrying a knife,
a federal prosecutor said
Monday. President Barack
Obama said he was “obviously concerned” about
the weekend incident.
T h e Se c re t Se rv i ce
increased security around
the famous grounds on
Pennsylvania Avenue in
the nation’s capital, some
guards openly holding
weapons, others escorti n g d ogs. T h e re wa s
talk of expanding White
House security beyond
BLOOMINGTON — The
severe respiratory illness
that has sickened hundreds of children in several states has prompted
at least five hospitalizations in BloomingtonNormal.
But medical professionals believe that most people with the virus become
only mildly ill.
Enterovirus is common
among adults and children this time of year but
children are more likely
to become ill because
they are less likely to
wash their hands, said
D r. A a ro n Tra e ge r o f
Advocate Medical GroupPediatrics, Bloomington.
The virus generally causes
a runny nose, he said.
But in recent weeks,
a n u n co m m o n s t ra i n ,
enterovirus 68, has sickened children in several
states. The strain is of
concern because it’s making children sicker — with
coughing and wheezing
— and can be serious for
children with asthma,
Traeger said.
Advo ca te B ro Me n n
Medical Center, Normal,
has treated at least 11
patients with suspected
e n te rov i r u s , s p o k e s man Eric Alvin said. Five
required hospitalization
SEE VIRUS / PAGE A2
ASSOCIATED PRESS
FIND
Respiratory
illness seen
as dangerous
pswiech@pantagraph.com
Jury selection began
Monday in Livingston
County in the trial of
Heather Lamie, a former
Cullom woman charged
in the death of a foster
child in her care.
Local, A3
In sync?
At least 5
in hospital
with virus
CAROLYN CASTER, Associated Press
A member of security with a weapon walks along the
interior of the perimeter fence on White House North Lawn
along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. on Monday.
The Secret Service tightened their guard outside the White
House after Friday’s embarrassing breach in the security
of one of the most closely protected buildings in the world.
the current area as a
major investigation began
into the question of how
the man managed to get
to the building without
being stopped.
Forty-two-year-old
O m a r J. G o n za l ez o f
Copperas Cove, Texas,
faces charges of entering a restricted building
or grounds while carrying
a deadly or dangerous
weapon. He had been
arrested earlier in the
summer in Virginia with a
carful of weapons, authorities said, and a federal
prosecutor said Monday
in court that Gonzalez had
had a map with the White
House circled.
Obama and his family
had left the White House
for Camp David when the
incident occurred Friday evening. Gonzalez
was seized just inside the
building’s front door. No
guns were found in his car.
In court, Gonzalez, with
a gray beard, a shaved head
and dressed in a standard
prison orange jumpsuit,
listened impassively as the
prosecutor spoke. He could
face up to 10 years in prison
if convicted of illegally
entering a restricted area
with a dangerous weapon.
SEE WHITE HOUSE / PAGE A2
Hopefuls
submit
pot forms
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO — Dozens of
people who want to break
into the medical marijuana
business in Illinois lined
up Monday to file their
applications ahead of a
3 p.m. deadline.
Applicants were waiting
in line with boxes of documents before the state agencies opened Monday morning, said Melaney Arnold, a
spokeswoman for the state’s
medical cannabis program.
“A lot of applicants waited
until today to file,” Arnold
said Monday. “The applications are voluminous with
boxes of documents and
even more information on
flash drives.”
The Department of Financial and Professional Regulation and the Department of
Agriculture took applications
for dispensaries and cultivation centers. The agencies
aren’t expected to announce
how many applications they
received until later this week.
The state’s new medical marijuana law went into
effect Jan. 1, but the first crop
can’t be planted until permits
for growers are issued later
this year. The law prohibits
patients from growing their
own cannabis. Commercial
growers will pay a 7 percent
privilege tax on their marijuana sales.
Illinois expects to grant up
to 21 permits for cultivation
centers and up to 60 permits
for dispensaries.
For cultivation centers,
there is a non-refundable
application fee of $25,000
and a first-year registration
fee of $200,000.