Stage is set for 2008 Relay for Life

For his 60th birthday, George Burgland’s family paid the entry fee for him to play in the John Deere Classic Pro-Am and he was able to play alongside former British Open champion Todd Hamilton.

Ryan Hart is making the jump from  junior high basketball coach at Lombard to the sophomore coach at Galesburg High School.

Just last week, Andy Gibbons completed his second year of the Knox Football Camp. The camp took place in the outfield area of the Knox College baseball field. However next year, the camp will move to the Harley Knosher Bowl and the numbers could greatly go up.

Right when he was hired, Mike Reynolds said he wanted to build a developmental program for Galesburg boys basketball. But he needed someone from the Galesburg area to help run this developmental program.
Bull’s-eye: Zack Thiel.

"Lessons of Life" -- Life definitely has some scary moments to offer us. Often these frightful times occur with the “not knowing” stage. We are waiting to hear about a job and don’t know where our next rent payment is coming from; we are taking a step out in faith and going back to school to change our career; we have gone through a divorce and are wondering how we are going to raise kids on our own; we are ready to leave home and go to college, but fear that we won’t be successful; we are waiting for the results of a biopsy or health issue.

For the past 11 years, Roger Lundeen has helped spearhead an event that features close to $30,000 worth of fireworks. It's called the Big Bang Boom. It's a 1-2 punch of fireworks lighting up the sky with music and commentary to go along with it.

Last week, millions of sports fans saw Derrick Rose's dream of becoming a Chicago Bull become a reality. A hometown kid is taken first overall. Rose went on to embrace the Windy City fans by throwing out the first pitch before the Cubs-White Sox game on Friday at U.S. Cellular Field. 

During a time of consolidation, Williamsfield High School still holds on to the truest sense of small-school basketball. The estimated enrollment at WHS for next year is just 75 students in a small town of 600 folks.

This is for all my country music fans out there. It was in the 1990s and the country mega-group was called the Highwaymen. It consisted of Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson.

We teach our children tolerance and moderation in most areas of life, which is customarily a good practice; nevertheless, we have a tendency to be an "all or nothing" society.