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A6 Monday, Septe ber 19 2016 he antagraph 1 CENTRAL ILLINOIS Delores Kammermann PONTIAC Delores C. Kammermann, 88, of Pontiac passed away at 9:55 on Friday (Sept. 16, 2016) at Pontiac Healthcare and Rehab. Services will be at 11 a.m. on Wednesday at Calvert Martin Funeral Home, Pontiac, with the Rev.

Gretchen Stinebaugh officiating. Visitation will be two hours prior to the service at the funeral home. Burial will take place at Forrest Township Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to First United Methodist Church, Pontiac, or Pontiac Healthcare and Rehab Activities Fund. Delores was born Aug.

7, 1928, in Flanagan, a daughter of Fred A. and Ada Punke Wiechman. She married Clarence Edward Kammermann on Dec. 5, 1954, in Pontiac. He passed away on March 31, 2006.

She is survived by one son, Edward (Linda) Kammermann, Pontiac; four daughters, AdaLee Potts, Colleen (Charles) Molton, Donna Kammermann and Rebecca Kammermann, all of Pontiac; seven grandchildren, Laura (Nick Co wser) Potts, Clifton (Stefany Kohn) Potts, Patrick (Rebecca) Molton, Ryne (Ashley) Holzhauer, Samantha Holzhauer, Wendy Rutherford, and Brenda (Shane) Stapp; and six great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, and one brother, Melvin Wiechman. Delores was a homemaker. She enjoyed gardening and planting flowers. Most of all, she loved spending time with her grandchildren.

She was a member of First United Methodist Church for over 50 years. This obituary may be viewed and condolences sent to the family at calvertmemorial.com. Marian Rasmussen PONTIAC Marian Joyce Rasmussen, 83, of Pontiac passed away at 9:15 p.m. on Friday (Sept. 16, 2016) at Evenglow Lodge, Pontiac.

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday at Calvert Martin Funeral Home, Pontiac, with visitation fr om 1 p.m. until the time of the service. Burial will be at South Side Cemetery, Pontiac. Memorial contributions may be made to Livingston County Humane Society or First United Methodist Church in Pontiac.

Marian was born Jan. 21, 1933, in Pontiac, daughter of Ralph and Aldeane Ryerson Rasmussen. She is survived by three nieces, Penny Edington, Susan Bongen and Sheryl Buche; three nephews, Greg, Marshall and Donald Rasmussen; and many great-nieces and -nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, and three brothers, Jarlath, Clayton and Ralph Rasmussen Marian was educated in the Pontiac schools. She was a member of First United Methodist Church in Pontiac and Livingston County Humane Society.

She worked in the dining room at Evenglow Lodge for 30 years. This obituary may be viewed and condolences sent to the family at www. calvertmemorial.com. BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL Aaron M. Kolls NORMAL Aaron M.

Kolls, 41, of Normal died Wednesday (Sept. 14, 2016), in Lawndale. Service: 3:30 p.m. Tuesday at Carmody-Flynn Funeral Home, Bloomington, with Monsignor Gerald Ward officiating. Burial: at a later date in Rock Island.

Visitation: 4 to 7 Tuesday at the funeral home. Memorials: to Heartland Bank, Bloomington, for funeral expenses and his education. Survivors: wife, Krista; daughters, Mia and Anika, Normal; mother, Kathleen Kolls, Normal; brothers, Adam Kolls, Normal, and Brett Kolls, Bloomington; and stepmother, Phyllis Kolls, Rock Island. Condolences may be left at www.carmodyflynn. com.

Funerals today Manley, on, 10:30 a.m. at St atholic Church, Minonk. Mollett, Lloyd, 2 at St. Catholic Church, Clinton. Moody, Jo a nn, 11 a.m.

at Weldon United Methodist Church, Weldon. Nunnery, Mary, 10 a.m. at Clinton First Church of the azar ene, Clinton. Funerals pending Rau, Carolyn ier on ymus, 80, loomin ton, 8:10 a.m. Sunda (Sept.

18, 2016) at er itage ealth, ormal. Calvert- elan gee- ruc Funeral ome Farmer City. Reilly, orma 95, Clinton, 12:20 Saturday (Sept. 17, 2016) at Manor Court, Clinton. Calvert Funeral ome Clinton.

Delores Kammermann Aaron M. Kolls REGINA GARCIA CANO ASSOCIATED PRESS SIOUX FALLS, S.D. It was a idea: carve gigantic sculptures into the granite pinnacles of the Black Hills of South Dakota, significant Western figures like Lewis and Clark, Buffalo Bill Cody, Fremont, Red Cloud and Sacagawea. the vicinity of Harney Peak are opportunities for heroic sculpture of unusual South Dakota Department of History Superintendent Doane Robinson wrote to a sculptor in Georgia in 1924. The sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, redefined the project entirely.

Using jackhammers and dynamite, he began in 1927, first sculpting President George Washington, then Thomas Jefferson, followed by Abraham Lincoln and finally Theodore Roosevelt. Next month, Mount Rushmore National Memorial marks 75 years of public pervasiveness, ending up in movies and comics and on quarter-dollar coins. told Robinson are not thinking big enough. Western figures? not going to attract enough people. You need to think said Maureen McGee-Ballinger, the chief of interpretation and education.

Robinson was looking for ways to promote the state, particularly the Black Hills, McGee-Ballinger said. Plan surely has served that purpose, with about 3 million people visiting every year. the state, and the nation, Mount Rushmore is quite South Dakota State Historical Society Director Jay Vogt said. definitely put South Dakota on the map as a destination Because these are elected individuals on the mountain, who worked hard to pres erve a nation whose creation was unique in and of itself, it really speaks to the idea that we are a country of free Along the way, it has also found a place in pop culture. A chase scene in by Alfred 1959 classic starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint, included a death-defying scramble over the faces.

Hitchcock says he expects to realize his long ambition filming a chase over the Mt. Rushmore The Associated Press reported in 1958. may be spoofing, but you never can tell with Some scenes were filmed at the memo rial, but the climbing of the faces were studio shots that used models of the mountain. A 1983 special anniversary issue of the comic features her face next to the stone Lincoln. T-shirts with the faces of superheroes instead of the presidents are available at Target and elsewhere.

The memorial is a never-ending muse for political cartoonists, and in 2016, been no shortage of memes. The memorial has also been featured in multiple coins, including a quarter issued by the U.S. Mint in 2013 that shows men adding the finishing details to Jeff face. The four faces have also been highlighted in postage stamps, and they are of course in the background of South license plates. To celebrate the milestone, the National Park Service held events during the summer in connection with its own 100th birthday.

Mount Rushmore to celebrate 75 years S.D. national park, boon for tourism, to mark milestone AP FILE In this July, 22, 1929, photo, sculptor utzon orglum, at left directs drillers suspended by cables from the top of the mountain as they work on the head of esident eor ge Washington at the Mount ushmor Memorial in the lack ills ar ea near Keystone, S. DERRIK J. LANG ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES and ground at the weekend box office. The Warner Bros.

dramatization of the Miracle on the Hudson directed by Clint Eastwood and starring om Hanks as Captain Chesley Sullenberger remained at No. 1 for the second week with $22 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. The film tells the story of emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in 2009 and the subsequent National Transportation Safety Board investigation. horror revival nabbed $9.7 million at No. 2, while the Working Title Films comedy with Renee Zellweger again starring as the titular character crawled away with $8.2 million.

always think just because something has a recognizable brand name that automatically be a hit with audiences, but not always the said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for box office tracker com Score. fared better overseas, where the third film in the film series starring Zellweger as the goofy British singleton from Helen novels earned $29.9 million in 39 markets, including native United Kingdom. soars in second weekend at box ce MICHELLE L. PRICE AND BRADY MCCOMBS ASSOCIATED PRESS SALT LAKE CITY As Utah waits to see if President Barack Obama will designate a ne national monument in the state, this 20th anniversary of another national monument rekindled memories of an event that ignited simmering western frustrations about federal ownership of public land. President Bill Clinton created the Grand Staircase Escalante-National Monument on ept.

18, 1996, by signing a declaration at the south rim of the Grand Can yon in Arizona. It was lauded by environmentalists, with actor and Utah resident Robert Redford appearing at the ceremony with Clinton. But in heavily Repub lican Utah, he move was viewed as a sneaky, stab-in- the back example of federal overreach. About 70 miles north of ceremony in the Utah town of Kanab, just outside the new monument, flags flew at half-staff, residents wore black ribbons of mourning and high school students released 50 black balloons as a sign of protest. More black balloons were hung around town, along with signs that said on you The monument and the way it was created remain a sore spot for many Utah Republicans and local residents, who say it closed off too many areas to development including one of the largest known coal reserves that could have helped pay for local schools.

Monument anniversary rekindles fight in Utah AP FILE In this Sept. 18, 1996, photo, Vice resident a ore applauds after resident ill Clinton signs a bill designating about 1. 7 million acres of land in southern red-rock cliff as the and Staircase- scalan te ational Monumen at the and Canyon ational ark, in a riz ona. PAT EATON-ROBB ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW LONDON, Conn. Chris George is the executive director of the largest refugee resettlement agency in Connecticut.

also a recruiter. The leader of the Integrated Refugee Immigrant Services in New Haven spends a lot of his time traveling across Connecticut to talk to community groups about co-sponsoring refugee families. Training such groups as partners, George said, has allowed his agency to double the number of refugees it serves. The U.S. State Department says IRIS is at the leading edge of a trend that has seen the return of the co-sponsorship model, which was popular with refugee resettlement workers in the 1970s but fell out of favor as dual-income households became the norm and people had less time for volunteerism.

you think about all of the things that must be done and goods that must be provided, the more people involved in that effort, the easier it is to consider greater numbers or even a better service or more depth of said Barbara Day, the U.S. State domestic resettlement section chief. George has been invited to attend President Barack summit on the refugee issue Tuesday and discuss his efforts, including their co-sponsorship work, which now includes 34 different organizations. have devoted a lot of time to outreach, public information, getting the word out and telling the people of Connecticut that there is a need and we are keeping alive this great American tradition symbolized by the Statue of George said. Community groups key to resettlement LarryL.Calvert Director Qualityservice tohelpyouheal 1115E.WashingtonSt.|Bloomington HappyBirthday DamerisA.Bagwell Nowordscanexpressthehurtandanguish Nortouchonhowwefeel, GodsharesourtearsandgivesusHislove Thoughtheonewelovehasgone, Wefindcouragetocarryon.

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