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Good news for women’s health and pocketbooks
U. S. health insurance companies must offer women free birth control and other preventive health care services under Obama administration rules released this week. The rules from the Health and Human Services Department largely follow recommendations from the Institute of Medicine, an independent panel of doctors and health experts.

Architectural dreams
Springfield’s Trivial Pursuit is not a party game that is much played these days, except by candidates for state representative seats. Several different versions were released over the years in an attempt to broaden the market by narrowing the appeal to, variously, science buffs, movie obsessives or nostalgists.

America’s shameful leadership
Of course, their way – on everything from tax policy to Wall Street regulation – is always the corporate way. Their plutocratic theories were exactly what was tried throughout George W’s eight-year reign, and they failed spectacularly.

LETTERS
They are grabbing disconnected facts out of the hot humid air to provide shaky support for a whimsical theory. If the row crops are providing all that deadly humidity, wouldn’t a high rural death percentage be more supportive of the theory? Those 525 deaths of 1995 in northeastern Illinois; not very many corn fields in Chicago!.

Good news for women’s health and pocketbooks
But affordable contraception does more than protect women’s health. It also protects a family’s economic security, by enabling women to have children when they are able to support them.

Arts are the main course, not dessert
Sellars, an international director and producer, has lived and worked in France, Africa and Australia, directed Los Angeles festivals in the 1990s and created opera and concert staged productions of classical works, such as his recent production of Handel’s Hercules.

BE THE BLUES
The event, which features a BBQ competition and various styles of live blues music, starts at 5 p.m. on Friday and noon on Saturday, lasting until midnight each day. This is the first year in its eight-year history that the event has included Friday night activities.

Concussion? Go to the bench.
It was a typical evening of basketball practice in 1997 and a young A.D. Carson wanted nothing more than to be in the game. However, another player had just accidentally stepped on his head, and Carson felt pressured by his coach to stay in play, rather than go to the bench.

Illinois can’t control its money
The 274-page audit by Illinois Auditor General William Holland found issues at 18 state agencies, as well as the governor’s office and the state comptroller’s office. Some problems apply to multiple agencies, and many of the problems have gone uncorrected for years.

Minorities disproportionately stopped and searched
A study of traffic stop data released by the Illinois Department of Transportation shows minority drivers in Illinois and in Springfield are more likely than white drivers to be stopped and searched by police. Meanwhile, the American Civil Liberties Union is pushing the federal government to investigate racial bias in traffic stop searches.

Moving kids from fat to fit
This school year, in a little patch of yard beside a set of mobile classrooms at Southern View Elementary School, students and their teachers are hoping to find a few new flavors.

Moving kids from fat to fit
“I think Springfield fits in with the rest of the state as far as there’s a problem and we’re all aware of it. I think what makes Springfield unique is a group like genH and the school district,” Schafer says.

Moving kids from fat to fit
Hosseinali says the change proved beneficial for classroom management. Instead of taking 10 minutes out of what could be instruction time to calm down students after recess, sitting through lunch does the trick. Any arguments that had developed during recess were resolved through the lunch period, before students returned to class.

Moving kids from fat to fit
Campbell says the program will start by assessing the skill level and time constraints of each family. Then, Campbell will teach parents how to make simple meals and use their children to help out. “So it becomes a family project to get dinner on the table,” Campbell says.

Anthology publishes poetry of area teens
Among these teachers are Glenwood High School’s Keith Kelley, Amy Lynn and Nikki Brawner, Rochester’s Suzanne Pettyjohn and Karen Zeilger, Taylorville’s James Cook, Williamsville’s Ted Morrissey and Gillespie’s Kaye Henderson. Springfield Poets and Writers mission is to support and inspire the literary arts.

The pleasures of paella
A classical and flamenco guitarist, Del Monte spent much of his childhood in Spain, which he considers his natural environment. He studied classical guitar in Spain and Britain, and also spent months at a time living with gypsies in caves in the Sacromonte hill in Granada, Spain, absorbing the art of flamenco.

Cowboys outduel aliens in clever mash-up
When Hollywood execs bandy about ideas like throwing malevolent aliens into a traditional western, it’s referred to as a “high concept.” Obviously, this proves that those in charge of making movies are just as intent on fooling themselves as they are you, dear viewer.

Downhome is downtown
It is nice enough that local bands doing alloriginal music have the opportunity to share self-penned tunes with a viable audience on an expansive, outdoor stage with a good sound system. But organizers of this event really sweetened the pot.

PUB CRAWL
Serpents, Jason Todd, Dweller, Of Glaciers, Heavy Arms.

BAND SPOTLIGHT | Hot Bag O’ Donuts and Catalyst
Bourbon Street Rhythm & Ribs, better known to old-timers as Bruce’s Tavern, recently began hosting rock bands every Friday and Saturday night. This Friday becomes more than a wild, rocking show and turns into a fundraiser with the $5 cover going to assist the Access 4 Producers Group in setting up a new production studio space.

PUB CRAWL
Find more details and gigs in our online calendar at www.illinoistimes.com.

Photography of friendship over fear
In the early 1940s when European nations crumbled under the weight of economic depression and the invading armies of the Third Reich, small pockets of resisters quietly went about the business of saving not only their own families but also their neighbors’ families and, from time to time, refugee families.

THE CALENDAR
Stephenson, Joel Tinsley-Hall, Jeannie Zeck. Pine Tree Studios, 310 E. State Street, Jacksonville, 217-883-7758..

FESTIVAL | Entertainment and arts
Join 300,000 friends (yes, that’s five zeros) downtown at the ultimate street party, the Decatur Celebration, themed this year The Big Reunion. Whether you’re reuniting with your favorite fair food such as an elephant ear, or reconnecting with 80s metal band Night Ranger, Aug.

FILM | Nuclear reactions
On the 66th anniversary of the bombing of Nagaski, three days after the Hiroshima bombing anniversary, view the feature-length documentary, The Forgotten Bomb,.

THE CALENDAR
Associate Membership Exhibit, a community outreach show. Free. Beverages, hors d’oeuvres, music. Prairie Art Alliance Gallery II, 221-223 S. Sixth St, 544-2727..

THEATER | Musical glee
Theatre in the Park presents seven nights in the outdoor amphitheatre of its latest production, Disney’s spirited Camp Rock..

THE CALENDAR
with a different approach to creating landscapes with pastels. Anne Lloyd Gallery of the Madden Arts Center, 125 N. Water, Decatur..

PUBLICNOTICES
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEV- ENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF ILLINOIS SANGAMON COUNTY, SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS IN THE ESTATE OF: MARY K. TALMANT, Deceased No. 2011-P-407 CLAIM NOTICE Notice is given in the death of MARY K. TALMANT. Letters of office were issued on July 22, 2011 to RONALD E.

THE CALENDAR
guided tour. $6-$4. Pre-registration required. Henson Robinson Zoo, 1100 E. Lake Shore Dr, 217-753-6217..

PUBLICNOTICES
SION OF ALL THAT PART OF THE NORTHEAST 1/4 OF SECTION 28, TOWNSHIP 16 NORTH, RANGE 4, WEST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, THAT LIES WEST OF SANGAMON RIVER AND SUGAR CREEK. SITUATED IN SANG- AMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS. EXCEPTING THE COAL AND OTHER MINERALS AND THE RIGHT TO MINE AND REMOVE THEM.

PUBLICNOTICES
Dick Taylor Collision Services 2947 Old Rochester Road Springfield, Illinois 62703 (217)525-0613 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF VEHICLE Notice is hereby given that the following described Motor Vehicle(s) are unclaimed by the person or persons entitled to Legal possession of them for a period of at least thirty (30) days.

NEWSQUIRKS
Responding to reports of a man and a woman slashing tires at an apartment complex, Atlanta police arrested the woman, but the man escaped. A few minutes later, he returned to the scene and approached television news reporter Amanda Cook during her on-air report, claiming to be a witness to the crime.

REAL ESTATE
NORWEST BANK MINNESOTA, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR THE REGISTERED HOLD- ERS OF RENAISSANCE HOME EQUITY LOAN ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-2 PLAINTIFF, -vs- BONNIE S.

AMY ALKON
There’s all this breathless encouragement for guys to go meet women at the supermarket, as if the place is the key thing.