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SRC’s #GivingSPOONday raises $50K+ Sherri Rader, Marketing Director Spoon River College The Spoon River College Foundation is pleased to announce that, thanks to the generosity of donors across the SRC district and beyond, its #GivingSPOONday campaign was a huge success, surpassing its goal and raising $50,822 from 360 separate gifts, including all matching funds. As part of the larger Giving Tuesday movement to create a worldwide day of giving, the SRC Foundation had challenged all friends of SRC to “change lives for good,” and give 200 separate gifts to benefit SRC in the 24-hour peri...

Credit Joseph Fox “I can imagine what things sound like even though I am deaf,” Robert Panara wrote in his poem, “On His Deafness.” I can imagine the strumming of a guitar, I can imagine the rustle of a star. The words appear at the end of a new production of Edgar Lee Masters’ “Spoon River Anthology,” a century-old collection of poems re-envisioned by computer technology, and awarded new meaning by the raucous and confusing year of 2020. “That was put at the end there,” Dr. Luane Davis Haggerty says of Panara’s poem, “with the hope that people would see that the theme i...

>> from abc news, this is "world news now." >> good morning. i'm marci gonzalez in for diana perez. >> i'm john muller. seems so unfair now that much of t rain is coming to clench the northwest. it could trigger flooding and mudslides. >> different misery for the eastern two-thirds where a polar blast is refreezing swollen waterways. iced over spoon river proved too much for an illinois man trying to reach his flooded home by boat. he capsized and disappeared before rescuers could get to him. ginger zee is tracking the tale of two winters. >> reporter: parts of southern california laying out a...

Saturday to act. cecilia vega, abc news, phoenix. >> all kinds of people speaking out. attorney general eric holder spoke out in favor of gay rights. he said that gay marriage bans are unconstitutional and they are not obliged to stand behind state laws that they believe are discriminatory. >> while this is a push from some businesses, there are also a lot of prominent business leaders asking the governor to veto this. the state tourism industry says the bill's already having a negative effect. i don't know if you remember but in the '90s the nfl moved the super bowl out of arizona because the...

Cecilia vega, abc news, phoenix. >> all kinds of people speaking out. attorney general eric holder spoke out in favor of gay rights. he told the state's attorney general that gay marriage bans are unconstitutional and they are not obliged to stand behind state laws that they believe are discriminatory. >> while this is a push from some businesses, there are also a lot of prominent business leaders asking the governor to veto this. the state tourism industry says the bill's already having a negative effect. i don't know if you remember but in the '90s the nfl moved the super bowl out of arizona...