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A4 Wednesday, February 9, 2011 www.jg-tc.com ATI? lyii i BOOK ON YOUR MINI) "Good letter. Schools and teachers are held accountable on yearly progress standards. BUT they can't teach if the kids aren't in school or don't do assigned work. I like the idea of employers of school age kids getting involved by insisting the student attend school to keep the job. I wonder if that could be worked out? Aren't there already truancy officers in our schools?" SuaanHon 'LETTER: Teamwork needed to keep kida in ichool' TALKING POINTS mg Snow comes the SS.

Li: "it Associated Press Pedestrians walk past a pile ot garbage and snow mixed together in the Brooklyn borough of New Vbrk, Tuesday. The mountain of snow may linally be melting away from New York City streets after more than a month of waist-high drifts but now there are new problems: pot holes, garbage piles five feet tall and black mounds of filthy, oozing refuse that no one wants to deal with. TODAY GOVERNMENT 9 a Shelby County Board meets. Courtroom of courthouse in Shelbvville. PUBLIC EVENTS Noon, "Benjamin Franklin and Freemasonry," Booth Library Conference Room 44-10.

Eastern Illinois University, Charleston. 7-10 Gunny Sack Revue, Gazebo Annex, downtown Arthur, free, 7-10 p.m. Country Bandits, music and dancing. Patoka Service Center, 210 W. Bond St Patoka.

7 HO "Richard III," presented by The African Company. Depart merit ot Theatre, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. S. Goodwin XlUVMl) or HiiO-527 2H V.I. THURSDAY GOVERNMENT 1 7 p.m..

East Oakland Tuwrislup Board meets, supervisor's oft t', 5 lv Mam St Oakland. PUBLIC EVENTS fi "Beethoven's St.ir Crossed levers The Art ot Passion," live music, presented by IXK'IIA, Indi Go Ar tist Co-op. Iv University Champa'ign: 7 p.m., Open Mic night. Jackson Avenue Col tee, 7oH Jackson Charleston. 7 10 music and pla-Mor Danceland, K.

Third St. Parta, $5. All kind of The Shelby Bowl. 1804 W. South First St Shelbvville, ONGOING EVENTS Tarble Arts Center, Ninth Street and Cleveland Avenue; Charleston, 5K1 787 "Thriller An Installation Adam Parker Smith," exiubi lion, eGallery, through Feb 20: "IMh Biennial Watercolor: -Mi- -nois." niried exhibition, main Feb.

20; "Art in Architecture: Charleston Architecture c. IKFCi exhibition, liramanl Gallery. Feb. 3-May Booth Library exhibits." Eastern Illinois University: campus. MM) Lincoln Charleston.

Mil Wit. tliiiM2-(dull "Benianun Franklin: In Soarth ul -a -Better World." Feb. S. Barbara Clarksun. 'amity Winter." watercolor, through February: Mattnon Public Library, Hion Charleston Ave 2fi21.

Artwork by Williams Elementary School students on display, through March; Com- mini Grounds, Charleston Mattoon. sponsored by Mattoon Arts Council and West and Co "Filly Images at 50," exhibit, tiirough Feb. 1H; I'amtms's Alice Baber, permanent collection, Bicentennial Art Center. U2 Central Pans. tiacriv parisart center com F.llingham Art Guild Juried Art Show exhibit, lioiiutli Clinic, W.

Kver- green K'ltingham, S42-. 3-100 ex! M-f 10-6 SAT 10- (Big Mess over the past several weeks have also been unkind to streets. Crews are patching the holes with cold asphalt, a temporary fix until hot asphalt can tie used in the spring. In New York, as residents dug out their cars in recent days, sanitation crews tried to remove the big piles not taken care of by nature. In some places, crews are hauling away the snow in dump trucks and taking it one of lid giant hot tub-like snowmelters that sit over the sewer's.

Most of the tubs can melt 60 tons xt hour, and in most winters, the job would be done by now, department spokesman Vito Turso said. "We have had snow upon snow uxn snow," Turso said. "It's starting to leel like we're going to see snow on the streets until opening day at Yankee Stadium," IIOROSCOPK If today is your birthday: Conditions are looking favorable for you in the year ahead where your material concerns and circumstances are involved. Of course, it will be up to you to properly apply yourself toward the ends vou want. See page C5 for today's complete horoscopes TUESDAY'S HILO Pecos.

Texas 81: Medora, -31 NATIONAL TEMPERATURES. s. X1 A hi Soggy gloves. Old newspapers And clamp, duly sofas all left out in the ojH'n, as if they, too, will just melt away. And thanks to pet owners who got a little lazy in the bad weather, many city streets are now shellacked with dog feces.

The combined assault of snowplows and rock salt has created another big problem in the Northeast: potholes. Crews on the pockmarked streets of New Jersey are applying temporary patches because the more jiermanent lilhngs require warmer weather. The winter has also left some bone-jarring holes in Connecticut, including some on a ramp off Interstate 84 in Hartford. In Philadelphia, yo-yoing temperatures that followed several sloppy storms of rain, freezing rain and snow ONTIIK W'KB Watch video from the Eastern Illinois University Little Pinks Dance Clinic and' performance at www.jg-tc.com. Nyton Frieze carpet W5txck-starting 1 rr NATIONAL After the NKW YORK (APi The mountains of snow that have covered the Northeastern landsca)e lor the past month and a half are finally melting, revealing oozing lumps of garbage, gaping potholes, bicycles, ratinlested solas, discarded Christmas trees even bodies.

More than 57 inches of snow has (alien on New York City this winter, its snowiest January ever, and the story is mular elsewhere around the Northeast Residents welcomed warmer weather this week before an expected plunge back into the frcecr. but they weren't so thrilled about the side, effects. "Tins is disgusting I can't tell if it's snow or garbage or sonic sick other Ihing." said Karen James, 34. finding discarded lulls. paer cups and sludge in the shrinking mound of snow and ice covering her car.

"This slinks." Since a K)st Christinas blizzard ilumH'd moie than 2 feet of snow on parts of the city, the snow-' piles have Iiecomeas lamiliar aslaxis to New lornng pedestrians to weave single-file through snow-packed sidewalks Two tn dies were found vehicles -last week. Ill I Kith cases, a passer-by. spotted someone slumjx'd over the wheel -alter snow melted away from the windows. One man was lound dead Feb 1 ol an apparent gunshot wound; he had lxn rejected missing a week earlier And' on Friday, a day alter he was reported missing. Argent Dynv.i's bodv was lound the driver's seat ol a BMW Authorities believe be may have ol carbon -monoxide poisoning, At least one other body was discovered the New York area in late Jan-, in a parking lot in West Nyack.

The man had been dead ol hypolher-ima lor several. days belore anyone not iced, police said: The city Sanitation: Department is responsible for plowing streets and crosswalks, while residents and businesses are execlod to clear sidewalks. -Alter grousing for weeks alxmt the city's failure to plow enough snow, many New "Yorkers are now grilling about the garbage piles and big pieces ol furniture, some crawling with rats'." Dunlin the many snowstorms to hit Ihe.city. the Sanitation Department sus(cnded garbage. collection tor days at a lime in order to use trucks lor L( TTKKY Numbers draw Tuesday Pick Three Midday i 7 Pu Three Fvening I 2 (i Piek -Four-Midday.

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0.13 mm Otf Oil O.lr Otr Sunday Partly cloudy 4335 fraa aft Cloudy Cloudy snow removal, which meant about ll.ono tons ol trash ier day didn't get collected Some of it got buried by the succeeding storms. Garbage collection has since resumed, but it's not proceeding last enough lor some New Yorker's. "It's like we've replaced the snow walls with garbage walls." said Brooklyn resident Jill Coniglario, "Kven the parks are covered in mud and filthy snow My kids'are not playing in this stull. that's for sure." (Hauled, the mess has loen caused by more than jusl missed collections. People have been tossing loose trash onto the bags, and it's winding up on sidewalks and Plastic McDonald's cups.

Broken bottles ol Budweiser and empty cans ot Four Diko. Cigarette butts. Smashed umbrellas Sheet music TOMCIIT Better With You' Casey's Valentine's Day plans for Mia inspire Ben and Joel to break their rule ol never buying expensive gilts for their ladies. p.m. on AI5C Blue Bloods' When a girl is kidnnpcd, Jackie and Danny suspect her drug-addicted boyfriend is responsible.

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No Wf( 'PiUtion was r(rorWtf in W.ittoon hiJtwtn malntqtit Mon in1 9pm lues 3-sV Champaign 14' I 7 A LOCAL SKIKS Sumise 6.52 a Sunset 5.22 pm, Today rBtord high Today record low ILLINOIS TLMf'LHATCKKS. Springfield it 1 6 I 7 Effingham i 18" I 11 St. Louis 20 I 9 Cairo 223 Snow, ice and rain from South to Mid-Atlantic A strong arctic Iron) will continue to surge southward across the Southern Plains Wednesday As the Irom meets up with moisture from the gull, it will result in a mm ol snow, sleet. Ice and rain Irom the South to the Mid-Atlantic. City High to Pit Otlk Anchorage 26 .01 Snow Atlanta 44 S31 .01 Cldy Bismarck 06 B1S Chicago 15 .01 Clr Dalias-Fi Worth 56 1 295 Snow Denver i 04 tOM .19 Clr Detroit 20 t-Wf Snow Honolulu 82 1)69: .42 Houston 56 130: Rain Indianapolis 17 Cldy Las Vegas 57 1464 Clr Little Rock 42 I23i Snow Los Angeles 67 IW Clr Louisville 30 22S .01 Ckty Miami Beach 75 2 634 PCidy Milwaukee 14 1 09 1 Clr Nashville 30.

J28S Snow New Orleans 52 If 37 Cldy New York City 40 1 391 .24 PCIdy Oklahoma City 39 2S3 Snow Phoenix 72 463 Or St Louis 16 TO Snow Seattle 46 1 381 .05 PCWy Tampa 57 PCkty Washington.O C. 39 fcSZf .01 Cldy HlW City ChQfi.OHr Chgo dtn Murine Pl'OWA Rocklorrt Spiriglld TODAY Very cold Partly sunny Northwest winds to 10 mph Very cold. Partly cloudy Litjht riorthwesl winds. LOCK DAV OCTLOOK 2011 WurKttfTtiundXOrW Thuncmr- Flurries T- lc Stmwars Rnm Snow The Ultimate V- Talking Point Check www.jg-tc.com for the latest weather news and up-to-the-minute weather information for the area Thursday I'll 12 Saturday Partly cloudy Kridav Partly cloudy L'HI!) Weather Underground AP.

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