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Daily Digest 09/11/07
By Pantagraph staff
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Daily Digest for Sept. 11, 2007:

Weather service plans open house

LINCOLN — The National Weather Service will host its first open house in nine years on Sept. 29.

The event will be from 9 am to 4 p.m. Displays will be inside and outside of the building and there will be a few special weather balloon launches. Also providing displays will be Tazewell County ESDA, Logan County EMA, ham radio volunteers, Central Illinois Chapter of the American Meteorological Society, the University of Illinois Department of Atmospheric Science, and the American Red Cross.

The office is on the far east side of Lincoln, along Ill. Route 10, just east of Lincoln Christian College.

Due to security regulations, items such as backpacks or purses cannot be brought inside. Cameras will be allowed.

The event will be canceled if the Department of Homeland Security increases the security threat level to Orange or Red.

Kids can enter essay contest

BLOOMINGTON — The YWCA McLean County and McLean County Mennonite churches are sponsoring a peace essay contest as a way for students to consider how to address the problem of violence.

Eligible students are in grades 9 to 12 in McLean County. Topics are peace on state and local issues; and peace on national and international issues.

Deadline is 4 p.m. Sept. 28. Submit entries by email to www.ywcamclean.org; or by mail to YWCA, attn: Norene Ball, 1201 N. Hershey Road, Bloomington, IL 61704.

For information, call (309) 662-0461 or 663-6167 or email nball@ywcamclean.org.

Help needed for ParkFest

LEROY — Volunteers are needed for ParkFest, which will feature parks and playgrounds on the south side of LeRoy on Oct. 14.

Individuals, families and organizations can help with children’s games, bake sale and cake walk, hayrack rides and other activities.

Call (309) 530-7466 or e-mail smdean49@verizon.net.

Pharmacy worker loses her license

STREATOR — A former Streator pharmacy worker has had her license suspended indefinitely by the state.

Norma Pirano, 55, illegally sold 1,000 tablets of Xanax three years ago, said the complaint, resulting in the pharmacy technician license suspension. She worked at a Northpoint Plaza pharmacy that is now closed.

Ex-cop wins fight against jail time

OTTAWA — A former Streator police officer facing revocation of probation on a drug conviction has won his fight to not go to prison.

Michael Dunning, 56, an officer for nine years until 1992, faced up to seven years in prison if the revocation motion had prevailed. He was convicted in 2005 of cocaine possession and has a few months left on probation.

Police raided his home in February and said they found numerous rounds of ammunition, something Dunning is prohibited from possession as a felon. LaSalle County Judge H. Chris Ryan ruled the state did not prove Dunning had access to the ammunition.

His wife, April, testified she brought the ammunition from a relative’s home and kept it in her bedroom, which her husband did not use.

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