December 2010

To celebrate November/December’s character education trait, caring, students at Cobden Elementary School attended an excellence breakfast.

Three students from each classroom in kindergarten through 6th grade were selected by their teachers to receive an excellence certificate and attend the breakfast. Students also had a chance to win prizes in a raffle. The upcoming character education trait for January is fairness.

Students honored for November/December follow, by grade:

The Cobden High  School girls’ basketball team struggled in the Carterville Shootout, losing two of its final games Saturday, Jan. 15.

Johnston City 48, Cobden 39: Kayla Quertermous had 19 points to lead the Appleknockers in the loss.

Jordyn Grey added 9 points, Devyn Inman 5, Maria Piper 4 and Alysha Bottje 2.

Cobden fell behind 15-9 after one quarter and 29-16 at the half.

Brett Turner recorded Anna-Jonesboro’s highest finish ever in the prestigious Quincy tournament in high school wrestling Saturday.

Turner, in the 215 pound class, finished in fourth place. He pinned Quincy’s Malae Dauscaf in 1:33; Rockfall’s Derek Bingaman in 3:46 and decisioned Triad’s Hunter Schmidt, 11-8, and Belleville East’s Nicolas Weber, 6-1. He was pinned by Macomb’s  Braylon Cousin in 2:31 and lost the third place match in a pin to East Peoria’s Lucas Joseph in 1:41.

Union County Chamber of Commerce had a monthly meeting Thursday, Jan. 13, in Anna.

Chamber executive secretary Jeannie Landis reported that the organization had 165 members at the end of 2010.

The annual Southern Illinois Miners baseball game for Union County is set for June 30.

The Small Business Development Center at Shawnee Community College offered several classes to chamber members last year.

Classes which were offered included "Build Your Own Business in Southern Illinois," "Word 2007," "Excel 2007" and "Pro 2010."