A crowd overflows out the doors of the boardroom at the Clinton County Board’s monthly meeting on Monday, June 17. The abundance of people turned up to support a discussion to allow the presence of off-road vehicles on county and township roads. (Photo by Melissa Wilkinson) The Clinton County Board opened the floodgates for a discussion on the possibility of amending an ordinance to legalize the presence of off-road-vehicles (ORV) on county roads at their monthly meeting on Monday, June 17. Possibly due to a call to action posted on Facebook by District 2 representative Brad Knolhoff, the boardroom overflowed with citizens wishing to voice their support of allowing ORVs — also called side-by-sides, UTVs or four-wheelers — to drive along county and township roads, rather than just across them as is currently permitted.
“Farmers are currently allowed to use UTVs on the roadway. This is merely going to allow the rest of our county residents another way to safely enjoy our great county,” wrote Knolhoff.
Though Knolhoff was not present at Monday night’s meeting, the topic was broached by District 4 representative Keith Nordike. Nordike said that the state of Illinois deemed ORVs a liability for trucks and other vehicles traveling on back roads at the unmarked 55 mph speed limit, as ORVs are only allowed to travel at 35 mph.
He added that a speed study could be performed in order to change the speed limit, which would involve setting up a radar gun and determining the average speed of vehicles in order to make a recommendation to the board.
Staying down on the ball — Aviston second baseman Jensen Lake gets down on a line drive in the sixth inning of the Aces’ 5-3 loss to Bartelso on Sunday in CCL action. Lake was 2-for-3 with a double and a single. (Photo by Jeremy Chawgo Another full slate of Clinton County League baseball games went by and the Bartelso Barts still remain perfect on the season with Trenton hot on their heels.
Bartelso used a 2-run victory over Aviston to move to 6-0 on the season while Trenton took down Germantown to move to 6-1 on the season.
Centralia doubled their win total with a blowout win over Beckemeyer on Sunday while Breese had no trouble with visiting St. Jacob.
This Sunday’s schedule features a doubleheader in Centralia with Breese starting at noon. Germantown will play in Bartelso on Sunday at 1 p.m. while Trenton will be in Aviston at the same time. Beckemeyer plays in Trenton against St. Jacob at 1 p.m.
Trenton 4, Germantown 1: Ryan Meddows was the man for the Miners in their big road win on Sunday.
Meddows tossed a 3-hit, complete-game effort where he allowed one earned run on two walks and five strikeouts in a 113 pitch effort. He also was 2-for-4 with two singles and a run scored.
Trevor Kohrmann took the loss as he made it into the fifth inning and allowed three earned runs on 10 hits, two walks and four punch outs.
By Dayna Hartley
Breese Journal Reporter
Retiring Central Community High School superintendent Kevin Meyer After nearly two decades at the helm, Central Community High School superintendent Kevin Meyer is passing the torch.
Meyer gave his last address as superintendent at the CHS board meeting on Monday, June 17.
“Sixteen years have passed very quickly,” he said, addressing the board. “I’d like to thank the board for sixteen years of interaction, with 17 board members over those 16 years. We’ve had quite a bit of continuity with our board.”
When his contract was renewed five years ago, Meyer wrote down five items he wanted to achieve at Central. He recently found those handwritten goals and he told the board he feels he achieved what he set out to do.
“One: Leave the district in a healthy financial situation; two: lead us into a good condition of technology, a one-to-one environment (referring to the one-to-one Chromebook initiative); three: complete a series of projects, and roll over a bond that would lead us into facilities that will carry us through the next 10 to 20 years; four: hire a principal to transition to superintendent, and it’s been a joy,” he said, gesturing to successor Dr. Dustin Foutch, “and you’ve got the guy; and five: hire a principal,” he said, pointing to Ryan Ketchum, “and you’ve got the guy over there.”
One of the things he counts as his biggest achievement is “the culture that we’ve created at Central - our great staff, a willingness to improve all the time ... it’s important to have that same mindset. That culture is important.”
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