Gerald D. Spears, 82, of Clayton By Submitted by funeral home | May 14, 2021 at 6:58 PM EDT - Updated May 14 at 6:58 PM Gerald D. Spears, 82, passed away Sunday evening, May 9th, 2021 at River Hospital. (Source: Funeral Home)
CLAYTON, N.Y. (WWNY) - Gerald D. Spears, 82, passed away Sunday evening, May 9th, 2021 at River Hospital. His memorial service will be held Sunday May 23rd, 2021 at River Community Church, Clayton. Calling hours at 2:00 with services to follow at 3:00 with Pastors Sara Flack and Thomas Augliano officiating. Arrangements have been entrusted to North Country Cremation Service, Chaumont.
Jerry was born August 11, 1938 in Chicago Illinois. He was the son of Morgan Spears and Florence Parker. He served 11 years of active duty in the US Navy and was honorably discharged on April 16th 1996 with the rank of E-5 Boiler Tender. He served 11 years reserve duty with construction battalion “Seabee” Unit RNMCB 25, Detachment 02 out of Rock Island, IL from 1982
Local animal groups vie for control of city pound
Susan DeVilder
The Star Courier
KEWANEE Which organization will receive the contract to operate the city pound could be decided at the next Kewanee City Council meeting scheduled for May 24.
Both Friends of the Animals and the Henry County Humane Society/Kewanee have submitted bids for a three-year contract, with the option for two additional one-year extensions. The request for bids was announced by Kewanee Police Chief Nicholas Welgat in April with a deadline for responses due May 5.
The decision was expected to be decided at the city council meeting on May 10, but City Councilman Chris Colomer experienced a medical issue and left the meeting, which postponed the vote. At the time, Mayor Gary Moore called the decision to award the pound “too important to make without participation from the full council.”
PHYLLIS COULTER
Illinois Farmer Today
LAURA, Ill. â When Eleanor Basehoar was a little girl, instead of watching cartoons, she was out helping her dad on the farm as he worked with the equipment or the cattle. But she still never expected to be a pig farmer today.
With her four daughters, she leads an operation with 2,480 hogs. Together they grow corn and soybeans, raise a few cattle for a local meat market and are entertained by some alpacas in the barnyard in Laura, Illinois, in Peoria County. Â
All that while holding a full-time microbiology job at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Research Service laboratory in Peoria for more than 30 years.
Star Courier
The stars are aligned for Illinois to become a hot spot in the revival of manufacturing across our great American heartland. For example, I propose a really big, transformative, federal-state-private-sector partnership that would create a cutting-edge, computer chip manufacturing and research facility on Arsenal Island, which straddles the Illinois-Iowa Quad Cities.
“But how are the stars aligned, Jim?” you might ask.
I respond: The Biden infrastructure plan includes $50 billion or more for a desperately needed American manufacturing and research renaissance. Illinois is a natural place for such a rebirth.
We have in the University of Illinois, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago and other research centers probably the greatest concentration of engineering and computer science firepower of any state, with perhaps the exception of Massachusetts and California.
How Illinois can jumpstart a heartland manufacturing revival
By Jim Nowlan
The stars are aligned for Illinois to become a hot spot in the revival of manufacturing across our great American heartland. For example, I propose a really big, transformative, federal-state-private-sector partnership that would create a cutting-edge, computer chip manufacturing and research facility on Arsenal Island, which straddles the Illinois-Iowa Quad Cities.
“But how are the stars aligned, Jim?” you might ask.
I respond: The Biden infrastructure plan includes $50 billion or more for a desperately needed American manufacturing and research renaissance. Illinois is a natural place for such a rebirth.