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2 each seek Virginia mayor, alderman s spots
Rochelle Eiselt, rochelle.eiselt@myjournalcourier.com
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Reg Brunk (left to right), Chris Behrends, Steve Clark, and Tom Knous.Photo provided
VIRGINIA Two candidates each are vying for the mayor’s seat and an alderman’s position in upcoming municipal elections.
Incumbent Reg Brunk will face challenger Steve Clark on April 6 in a bid for the mayor’s seat.
Brunk has been mayor for four years, serving as an alderman for eight years before that. He also served four years in the Air Force.
During his first term, he said, the city built a new water plant and ambulance service in the city became easily accessible.
By Benjamin Cox on December 10, 2020 at 7:17pm
Roseanne (Ruppel) Ommen, an accomplished West Central Illinois nurse with a long career, passed away Tuesday. She was 86.
Ommen’s nursing career started as a graduate from the Passavant School of Nursing in August 1955 with her R.N. Shortly after graduating, she became a staff nurse at the hospital. Originally from near Hagener Station in rural Cass County, Ommen quickly recognized that Cass County did not have a local health department in the county. Cass County still had an operable Tuberculosis Clinic that had been set up in the 1880s, but not a functioning health department. Ommen volunteered hours speaking to organizations throughout the county to organize a health department. She helped to found the Cass County Health Department in 1977, which is still in operation to this day in the county seat of Virginia with a satellite campus in Beardstown.