Ellie Tanner isnât waiting until after she graduates from high school to pursue her dream of becoming a pastry chef.
At 16, sheâs already in business for herself, making and selling cookies, cupcakes and hot cocoa bombs through her home-based business in Monticello, Eâs Sweet Slice.
A sophomore at Monticello High School, Tanner said sheâs been baking for quite some time now.
âIâve been baking since I was little, but I started to get serious with it about five years ago,â she said.
Her mom got her a cake decorating kit, she said, and then she went to a cake decorating class.
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A week-and-a-half after front-line healthcare workers got their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, itâs checkup time. We asked doctors, nurses, EMTs and others to describe what they felt â and what words of wisdom they had for the rest of us.
Elizabeth Baumann Provided
Nurse, Emergency Department, Carle Foundation Hospital
âI would describe my mental feelings about receiving the first dose of the COVID vaccine as a âscared relief.â As an RN working in the ED, this feels like the beginning of the end to the pandemic. Working on the frontlines comes with a lot of pressure at times â especially now, with new information coming out daily. Having the critical thinking skills to navigate caring for our patients in this community is our ultimate goal. Receiving the vaccine will help our community entirely.
CHAMPAIGN â Get ready to roll up some more sleeves, Champaign County.
A second shipment of COVID-19 vaccine is expected to arrive in Champaign County this week and is expected to include several thousand doses, according to Champaign-Urbana Public Health District Administrator Julie Pryde.
Last weekâs shipment allowed for hundreds of Carle Foundation Hospital employees and dozens at OSF Heart of Mary Medical Center to be vaccinated.
Next up for vaccinations in Champaign County: Many health care workers who havenât yet been vaccinated, including more at Carle and OSF, plus some direct patient care staff members at Frances Nelson Health Center, Christie Clinic and University of Illinois McKinley Health Center, Pryde said.
URBANA â A Champaign County judge Wednesday acquitted a Minnesota man of battery and weapons charges in two cases, finding he was insane at the time he committed the offenses.
Judge Roger Webber considered the reports of police and Champaign psychiatrist Dr. Larry Jeckel in determining that Jeffrey Heard, 38, of Pipestone, Minn., was not guilty by reason of insanity of aggravated unlawful use of weapons and aggravated battery.
Heard was first arrested Jan. 2 by Illinois State Police who found him with guns, ammunition and drugs in a truck in the parking lot of the state police District 10 headquarters on U.S. 45 in Pesotum.