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The Pantagraph flg Friday, April 24, 1998 Gridley students celebrate Arbor Day Gibson City murder-for-hire case changes judge for a third time Angela Little, 21, of Melvin, Craig Little's estranged wife, agreed to pay 16-year-old Strawn resident Anthony Jennings, $800 to shoot Little. Angela Little of Melvin faces the same charges as Dueringer, while Jennings, who is being tried as an adult, faces only murder charges. Police say all three confessed to the plot, in which Jennings allegedly shot Little twice with a shotgun. The move marks the third change of judges in the cases, and sends Dueringer's case back to Chief Circuit Judge Luther Dearborn, who will assign another judge for the triaL All three cases will be heard in Paxton, with each in front of a different judge. No trial dates have been set, and only a hearing on pre By JIM STAHLY JR.

Pantagraph staff A McLean County judge assigned to hear a Gibson City murder case has granted a motion for a different judge, marking the third change of judges in the tjriple-defendant, murder-for-hire Case. At a Thursday hearing in McLean County Circuit Court, Cir-ouit Judge Charles Witte granted a motion by William Dueringer, the attorney and second cousin of Carl Dueringer, for a substitution of judges, said Ford County State's Attorney Tony Lee. I Carl Dueringer, 27, of Melvin faces first-degree murder charges 4s well as solicitation of murder for hire in connection with the Feb. 17 slaying of Craig Little, 27, of rural Gibson City. Police allege he and The PantagraphWAUREEN O'CONNOR Sarah Roth, daughter of Kathleen and Ben Roth, and Alec Wall, son of Gus and Sandy Wall, all of Gridley, lifted a weeping willow tree into a hole as members of the Gridley Junior High Student Council planted trees at Westview Park in Gridley in celebration of Arbor Day.

Students plant a tree while giving lesson in. history By UTTA KINSELLA Pantagraph correspondent GRIDLEY Cultivating an appreciation for the importance of trees, Illinois Department of Natural Resources officials Thursday led Gridley Junior High School students in an Arbor Day tree-planting ceremony while giving a history lesson. The village of Gridley has been selected by IDNR, Division of Forestry Resources, to be a test site for new disease-resistant elm trees, known as cultivators. The trees, provided by George Ware of the Morton Arboretum, were started in petri dishes with Dutch elm disease to be sure they could resist the tree killer. Reinee Hildebrandt, urban forestry program manager from Springfield, explained to the students that their ancestors had planted elms up and down city and village streets to form "vase-shaped cathedral archways," but that most of the trees were lost to Lotto rolls again SPRINGFIELD (AP) Saturday's Illinois Lotto jackpot will be worth at least $3.2 million after no ticket matched all six numbers in Wednesday's $2.5 million drawing, lottery officials said.

The 58 tickets that matched five of the six numbers each are worth $1,526. The 3,389 tickets that matched four numbers are worth $52 each. The numbers drawn Wednesday were 20, 30, 34, 36, 44 and 47. Holocaust memorial gets first the disease. The new elms, said Hildebrandt, include five hybrids.

She gave the students pointers on pruning, depth and moisture needs for the different root systems. Gridley Mayor Brent Kirkton urged all citizens to support efforts to protect the trees and woodlands and to continue to plant more trees Serving central trial motions are set to be heard May 8 in Jennings' case, Lee said. Livingston County Judge Harold Frobisch Is set to hear Jennings' case, while McLean County Circuit Judge Donald Bernardi wUl hear Little's case. Lee said he expects the reassignment of the case to take place within the next week. All three defendants were originally in front of Ford County Resident Judge Stephen Pacey, but were reassigned on a motion from Lee.

A preliminary hearing was heard by Livingston County Associate Judge Charles Frank. Dearborn then assigned Witte to Little's case, while Dueringer's was set in front of Bernardi, but switched the two after another motion. Requests for different judges typically are granted. public display The tabs were originally slated for recycling, with the $4,000 in recycling money to go to a Holocaust museum run by Kor in Indiana. But New York artist Jeffrey Schri-er was brought in, along with his idea for a sculpture called the "Wings of Witness" to be made from stringing the tabs along bendable pieces of wire that are shaped into feathers.

At the ceremony, Schrier said the pop tabs have become "the clay of the sculpture." He also said the wings symbolize many things to him the victims of the Holocaust, the survivors like Kor, the innocence of the children who collected the pop tabs and even of the portrayal of a swastika clutched in a bird's mouth that was used on Nazi uniforms. Office Madison. Wl 53783 i -m-jt-f sill The students collected 11 million of the tabs that are used to open soda cans in less than six months last year, unveiling them at a ceremony last May. The sculpture is incomplete, so only about 1 million of the tabs have been incorporated so far. The students' social studies teachers initially designed the project to be a lesson in tolerance and a way for the students to comprehend the numbers of 6 million Jewish people and 5 million other people being killed in the Holocaust.

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