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i Ti3 th2 S223CH to Sffi Call to hear our special offers. 1.855.224.2030 Consolidated communications JOURNAL GAZETTE TIMES-COUJilEIl MONDAY 11122012 SERVING CHARLESTON, MATTOON SURROUNDING AREAS WWW.JG-TC.COM 75 CENTS Mattoon honors veterans 1 nri RELATED STORIES Illinoisans across the state salute military members. A3 Nation recognizes sacrifices made by generations of American veterans. A10 "fir BY DAVE FOPAY JG-TC Staff Writer MATTOON It means that someone's looking out for you, and that's what people were told to never forget Sunday. A large crowd that gathered at Peterson Park for Mat- toon's annual Veterans Day ceremony heard about the expression, "I've got your back." It's fairly common these days and almost a "creed" among those in the military, Mattoon American Legion Post 88 commander Mike Weaver told the crowd.

He read a poem toldfirst by a child and then the mother and the spouse of someone in the service, before the soldier himself says, "It's me that's got your back." "On this day, try to do your Veterans Day-related events today 8:30 a.m., Oakland's Lake Crest School invites veterans to have breakfast with students. 8:30 a.m., Mattoon Middle School, Veterans Day assembly. 9 a.m., Cumberland school district Veterans Day program. All area veterans and active duty personnel are invited to attend. Cinnamon rolls and drinks will be served to the public at 8:15 a.m.

prior to the program in the high school gymnasium. 10:30 a.m., EIU Veterans Day Commemoration Ceremony in front of Old Main. Includes presentations by student veteranROTC cadet Cody Gallagher and EIU President Bill Perry. ROTC Panther Battalion will provide a three-volley salute, and the EIU music department will perform the national anthem and taps. Ceremony will be moved into Old Main If weather is inclement.

11 a.m., Charleston Veterans Day ceremony held by Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1592 on the courthouse square. Cari Sandburg Elementary School second-graders will sing patriotic music during the ceremony. 2:30 p.m., Mattoon's Riddle Elementary School to hold Veterans Day parade; veterans are invited to join students In parading through the hallways of the school. Ken TrevarthanStaH Photographer American Legion Post 88 member and Navy veteran David Slifer renders a salute as taps is played Sunday morning during the Veterans Day ceremony at Peterson Park In Mattoon. See VETERANS, A2 nt it 4W rvi kll Windsor, head for the finish line 1 1 1 5r 'It was like a lightning bolt' Congress wants answers on Petraeus affair BY ANNE FLAHERTY, KIMBERLY DOZIER and ADAM GOLDMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON Members of Congress said Sunday they want to know more details about the FBI investigation that revealed an extramarital affair between ex-CIA Director David Petraeus and his biographer, questioning when the retired general popped up in the FBI inquiry, whether national security was compromised and why they weren't told sooner.

"We received no advanced notice. It was like a lightning bolt," said Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, who heads the Senate Intelligence Committee The FBI was investigate ing harassing emails sent by Petraeus biographer and girlfriend Paula Broadwell to a second woman. That probe of Broadwell's emails revealed the affair between Broadwell and Petraeus. The FBI contacted Petraeus and other intelligence officials, and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper asked Petraeus to resign.

A senior U.S. military official identified the second woman as Jill Kelley, 37, who lives in Tampa, See AFFAIR, A2 INSIDE TODAY-Advice Classifieds A8 B8-10 Comics B7 Community A7 Entertainment A9 Local A2, A3 Lottery A4 My Amish Home A8 Obituaries A10 Opinions A3 6 lllillillli 35m Call today, Offer i tKe Select TV plui mi 'lis with 4. fl fjf Darren Cummings Associated Press Two cars sit In the garage of a home that was heavily damaged by an explosion Sunday in Indianapolis. blast 2 killed in Ind. neighborhood BY RICK CALLAHAN AND CHARLES WILSON Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS Splintered beams and boards on a piece of charred earth were all that remained Sunday where at least two Indianapolis homes were leveled in a blast that killed two people and rendered homes for blocks uninhabitable.

A backhoe raked through the rubble in the middle-class subdivision as clusters of firefighters and rescue workers weary from a long, chaotic day that began late the night before waited for their next assignment. The two-story, brick-faced homes on either side of See BLAST, A2 TOP THIS! Frozen fowl go up in flames CHILI. N.Y. (AP)- Officials say a truck carrying nearly 40,000 pounds of frozen chicken went up in flames on its way to a supermarket in the New York town of Chili. Fire officials tell the Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester that the truck was hauling chicken from Mississippi to the Wegmans Distribution Center just southwest of Rochester.

The truck driver wasn't Injured. Part of the highway was closed early Friday while crews cleaned up. Deadly Runnes Lindsay Smith, Makenna Tabor and Kris Marsland, all of the Girls on the Run SK run at the Mattoon Area Family YMCA. Hundreds support Girls on "It's prettyi ncredi ble- the growth we've had." Beth Gillespie, local Girls on the Run organizer toon during the third 5K run for the Girls on the Run program. The program teaches girls in a five-county area about health, body image, how to deal with bullying and more.

While they're learning about those things during the nine-week program, they also train for the run as the "big culminating event" of the program, organizer Beth Gillespie said. "We want the girls to know what it's like to set a goal so when they cross the finish line they can apply that in BY DAVE FOPAY MATTOON For just more than 200 girls, Saturday was a day when they accomplished something that's supposed to help them realize what they can do if they want. And something that amazes the organizer of the event that taught them that was how many more of them are doing it than when the effort started a year ago. A total of 204 girls joined volunteer coaches and others running the streets of Mat -TODAY'S WEATHER 3825 Partly sunny. Much colder.

See page A4 for the four-day outlook. CM Ken TrevarthanStafl Photographer together Saturday morning during the Run growth we've had," she said. Girls on the Run is for girls in third through eighth grades. The local program covers Coles, Douglas, Moultrie, Shelby and Effingham counties. Saturday's run started at See GIRLS, A2 WORLD Syrian violence spills into Israel An errant mortar shell from Syria drew fire from Israel on Sunday.

A10 TC.COM 217-235-5656 TVS other areas of their Gillespie said. Saturday's run was the third for the program. The first took place in Mattoon last fall and there was one in Charleston in April. Gillespie said 15 girls took part in last year's 5K in Mattoon. "It's pretty incredible the LOCAL- Lincoln planted a seed in this town Part of Lincoln lore is 'the 16th president's christening of Illinois town.

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