A couple are dead after what seems an ice fishing mishap in Hancock County.
The constable’s department said it was contacted us to a farm pond near Durham at 3:44 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 4.
Deputies getting here on the scene handled to pull the couple from the water within minutes.
The 2 were required to Great River Medical Center in West Burlington, where they were noticable dead Saturday night.
They’ve been determined as Sean Chaney, 52, and Dawn Chaney, 50. They lived near LaHarpe.
Dog rescued in Galesburg house fire
The Galesburg Fire Department rescued a dog throughout a house fire.
Firefighters reacted to the1000 block of East Dayton Street on Saturday, Feb. 4. The fire had actually swallowed up a separated garage and was infecting the close-by home.
They browsed the smoke-filled home, discovered the family’s dog, and passed him out of a window to policeman at the scene.
No injuries were reported in the fire, which was identified to be unintended. Damage is approximated at $30,000.
Ag Mech reveal go back to WIU
The Western Illinois University Ag Mech Club’s Farm Expo will return this year. It was cancelled the previous couple of years due to the pandemic.
It will be held Saturday, March 4, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sunday, March 5, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
This will be the club’s 51st exposition. The university said it’s thought about the biggest student-run farming occasion in the nation.
Admission and parking are totally free.
The exposition will consist of screens of farm tractors and equipment, ag sales and service, and more.
It will likewise include a range of craft suppliers and totally free kids’s activities, and WIU professors and trainees will reveal screens of their research study.
More information can be discovered on the Facebook page for the WIU Ag Mech Farm Expo.
Brick and mortar grant for Western Illinois Museum
Landmarks Illinois is granting more than $25,000 in grants to conservation jobs throughout the state.
Some of that financing is headed to the Western Illinois Museum in Macomb.
The $3,000 matching grant will be utilized to repoint the Old Macomb Motors building, which houses the museum.
The financing comes through Landmarks Illinois’ Preservation Heritage Fund grants, which the group said “are intended to provide monetary assistance to significant structures or sites in Illinois that are under threat of demolition, in imminent deterioration, in need of stabilization, in need of structural or reuse evaluation or need to be evaluated for landmark eligibility.”
Landmarks Illinois is a membership-based, historical conservation not-for-profit organization.
5-star score for Memorial Hospital
Memorial Hospital in Carthage has actually been acknowledged as a 5-star healthcare facility for client complete satisfaction for the 3rd year in a row.
The federal acknowledgment from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services puts Memorial Hospital in the leading 8% of healthcare facilities across the country for client complete satisfaction.
About 260 healthcare facilities throughout the nation got a 5-star score this year.
The scores are based upon customer evaluations of healthcare facilities gathered in 2021.
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