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OPEN 9/27 12:00-1:30PMHOST KRISTEN WELD : 618-946-946920061 S CREEK RD. - GRAFTON

$150,000 // 3BR, 2BA, 1 ACRE

OPEN 9/27 12:00-1:30PMHOST BOBBY DOODY : 618-540-5501402 SAINT ROSE DR. - GODFREY

$129,900 // 3BR, 2BA, FENCED IN YARD

OPEN 9/27 11:00- 12:30PMHOST LAURA BOCK : 618-954-861056 RAY ST. - COTTAGE HILLS

$102,000 // 2BR, 1BA, OVERSIZED LOT

OPEN 9/27 11:30-1:00PMHOST MARY BEISER : 618-806-8150

1800 ARROWHEAD LN. - GODFREY$245,000 // 3BR, 3BA, WOODED LOT

OPEN 9/27 1:00-2:30PMHOST JOANIE WEIDMAN : 618-980-3656

320 S. CENTRAL - WOOD RIVER$75,500 // 3BR, 1BA, MOVE IN READY

OPEN 9/27 1:00-2:30PMHOST LINDA MAYNARD : 618-977-87441837 EVERGREEN AVE. - ALTON$109,900 // 3BR, 1BA, CHARMING

OPEN 9/27 1:00-2:30PMHOST LAURA BOCK : 618-954-8610

614 E 5TH ST. - ALTON$229,000 // 4BR, 3BA, HISTORIC

OPEN 9/27 1:00-2:30PMHOST WHITNEY MCIVER : 618-531-2256603 CROSSWINDS - JERSEYVILLE$197,000 // 3BR, 2BA, FENCED YARD

OPEN 9/27 2:30-4:00PMHOST KRISTEN WELD : 618-946-9469

1423 WHITE OAK DR. - CARROLLTON$174,900 // 3BR, 3BA, FINISHED BSMNT

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WOODS VALLEY FARM - STEELVILLE, MO 1,910 ACRES, HUNTING/FISHING

117 W. Third St., Alton, IL 618-465-2966Website: lauschkerealestate.com E-Mail: lauschke@lauschkerealestate.com

Becky Allen ...................... 792-3827Tom Huebener ................. 972-2710David Lauschke ............... 977-7912 Designated Managing Broker

Paul Lauschke .................. 802-6448 Rick Lauschke .................. 444-9182Sandy Lauschke ............... 802-6442

Andrew Masiero..............917-7802Carol Metzler ................... 977-8217Vivian Monckton ............. 558-1551

Tricia Sisk ........................ 791-5510Mary Lou Taul ................. 520-2829Scott Yanta ....................... 920-6545

708 Boulder Way, Jerseyville $232,500Beautiful NEWER construction craftsman style home w/custom features. The home has a split BR floor plan, 3 BRS, 2 baths, main floor laundry, eat in kitchen, and a open dining room & living room combo. All on one level.

Hosted by: Tricia Sisk, 791-5510

OPEN 12:00 PM TO 1:30 PM

860 W. Country Line Rd., Brighton $112,500A piece of the country! Home on 2 acres, w/2 outbuildings, 2 car carport, pond, 2brms, full bath, kitchen, LR, & main floor laundry on the main level & full walk out basement w/kitchen, bonus room, full bath, & 2 storage rooms.

4003 Stoneledge Court, Godfrey $490,000Great new price on this river view home! 4 BR, 4 BA. Custom designed, custom built & enjoy the river from every room. Minutes from work but miles from the weekday. Contact agent for list of Amenities

131 Ohio St., East Alton $58,000Cute little 2 BR bungalow featuring newer carpeting & paint throughout. Kitchen includes appliances. Big fenced front yard. Full unfinished bsmt. Small shed for add’l storage.

3414 College Ave., Alton FOR LEASEOwner will build out to tenants specifications. The build out will be amortized over the lease & added to the base rate. Lease rate is a base rate of $2.50 per sq. ft.

1533 E. Edwardsville Rd, Wood River 795,000Large commercial building. Used for sales & service. Set on 4 acres 1 mile off I-255, 2 miles from St. Louis Regional Airport Bethalto. Easily adapted to a variety of uses.

560 Lewis & Clark Blvd., East Alton $175,000Excellent commercial property across from Eastgate Shopping Center. This 2.68 acre lot consists of 2 parcels & has a potential for numerous possibilities.

2830 Highlands Rd., Godfrey $475,000Beautiful home w/many amenities! LR, DR, Grt rm w/FPl. Lg Mst. BR ste w/full bath. 2 add’l BR, w/4th BR used as ofc. Nice Kit w/breakfast area. Laundry Rm. Beautiful Sun rm. Plantation shutters. Full bsmt. 3 car gar. Corner lot. Agent owned.

3328 Fernwood Ave., Alton $49,900Cute bungalow close to the dental school! Come see this 2 bedroom 1 1/2 baths, with a fenced yard and a 1 car garage. Less than rent!

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3312 Godfrey Road, Godfrey $135,000Lots of potential. Next to Shivers. Formerly used as office/retail space. Full basement. Floored attic. 2 car detached garage. Big lot. High visibility.

3450 Homer Adams Pkwy, Alton FOR LEASEExcellent space! Showroom, Retail & Warehouse 5,175 +/- sf available with 2 overhead doors & a fenced yard. Great visibility with average daily traffic count of 20,000+ VPD.

707 Berkshire Blvd., East Alton FOR LEASEExcellent office space. Approximately 4,500 sq. ft. at $9.00 per sq. ft. Space can be subdivided. Owner occupies the lower level space. Plenty of parking.

417 Prospect, Unit A, Alton $118,000Loretto Towers Condo! Beautiful, updated, spacious, open floor plan w/3 BRS, 2 BA, LR, Kit w/center island & granite counter tops, stainless steel appliances, washer & dryer in condo. Secure bldg. off street assigned covered parking & elevator.

Lots 16-17 Hillcrest Dr., East Alton $25,000Are you needing a great lot to build on? This is it! 2 lots Sold as 1. On a cul-de-sac. Almost a half-Acre. Easy access to 255. Near popular shopping areas.

58 County Line Road, Brighton $450,000Rolling, wooded, tillable, pasture. 45 Acres including a 50x100 Horse Pole Barn with 8 stalls and a 50x100 Quonset Barn with a concrete reinforced floor.

Cambridge, Alton $16,500 - $21,000Builders welcome. Great building lots available in an established subdivision. Directions: Seminary to Windsor Dr. Prices Range from $16,500 to $21,000.

W. Water Street, Grafton $250,000Riverfront lots being sold as a package. 13 lots across 2 parcels. These lots are located just west of the Grafton Marina. Zoned RF-1, Riverfront District.

1314 E. Edwardsville Rd, Wood River $40,000Great potential on this corner lot in Wood River on the highly traveled Edwardsville Road. The lot and building are Zoned B-3. Building sold As Is.

1856 Broadway, Alton FOR LEASEThis building is for a single use tenant, has one overhead door 10 ft., wide, 12 ft. high, with small office area, one restroom, and is mostly open space.

613 E. 16th St., Alton $210,000Historic Middletown. Lots of space in this 4 BR, 3 BA home, LR w/FP, built in bookshelves, pocket doors to DR, eat in Kit, pantry, FR, & 2 car gar. Fenced yard & inground pool. Pride of ownership shows!

Hosted by: Rick Lauschke, 444-9182

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7512 Timbercrest, Godfrey • $328,500Call Jackie Sumpter 910-7761

120 Windward, Alton • $190,500Call Bruce Rhodes 960-5111

336 Saint Rose, Godfrey • $144,900Call Sharron Lovato 410-8782

304 W Fairgrounds, Jerseyville • $115,000Call Mindy Woelfel 946-0434

429 Belleview, Alton • $129,900Call Terry Seymour 567-8180

801 Amherst, E Alton • $64,900Call Pat Kulish 623-9209

1302 Normandy, Godfrey • $124,900Call Charlene Walker 531-5355

851 Washington, Alton • $189,000Call Charlene Walker 531-5355

4805 D’Adrian, Godfrey • $209,900 Call Amy HIllery 520-9850

416 W 4th, Alton • $128,000Call Charlene Walker 531-5355

1101-03 Langdon, Alton • $169,000Call Amy HIllery 520-9850

1807 Primrose, Godfrey • $425,000Call Matt Horn 560-8201

1120 E Woodfield, Alton • $259,900Call Matt Horn 560-8201

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604 Edmond, Alton • $29,900Call Steve Atkins 980-0655

312 Mercury, Godfrey • $127,000Call Devin Outman 980-5759

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Moyer contracting coMpany618-781-7900

four generationS of conStruction excellence

3 Bedroom, 2 Bath, Living Room, Dining Room, Kitchen, Finished Lower Level w/egress Window, Rec Room, Laundry Room, Furnace Room,

Large Two Car Garage, 21’x14’ Deck and MORE

NEWLY REMODELED: Windows, Doors, 200 Amp Wiring, LED Lighting, 95% HVAC system, Cabinets, Quartz Countertops, Whirlpool Appliances, New Plumbing,

New Bath Fixtures, Exterior Aluminum Trims, Guttering, Leaf Guard,Concrete Driveway & Sidewalk and MORE

Noon – 3:00 pm4409 Chantel, Alton * Rock Gate Subdivision

Built in the 1960’s, all new for 2020$195,900

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20061 South Creek Road, GraftonLocated just outside of town! So much potential

in this 3 bed/2 bath home on one acre with a 24x30 detached garage. You can make this your

own country living!$150,000

204 Snedeker Street, JerseyvilleNot just a drive-by!! This efficient 2 bedroom home

comes complete with several updated features throughout. Conveniently located and move in

ready! Makes a great starter or downsizing home.

$89,900

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OPEN 5/19 12:00 - 1:30 PMHOST STEVE MCGARTLAND : 217-461-1722

703 IL ROUTE 48 - PALMER$83,000 // 2BR, 1BA, CHARMING, DECK

OPEN 5/19 11:30 - 1:00 PMHOST MICHELLE KUBA : 217-851-5433124 MEREDITH LN. - GLEN CARBON$334,500 // 3BR, 3BA, NEW CONSTRUCTION

OPEN 5/19 2:00 - 3:30 PMHOST ABBY DELEHANTY : 618-433-9436

522 SHELLY ST. - ALTON$74,900 // 3BR, 1BA, UPDATED

OPEN 5/19 11:00 - 12:30 PMHOST SARAH BROOKS : 618-402-7731

1202 W. MAIN - HARDIN$49,500 // 3BR, 2BA, MOVE IN READY

OPEN 5/19 2:00 - 3:30 PMHOST NICK CAIN : 618-791-3583

702 LOCUST ST. - CARROLLTON$129,000 // 4BR, 2BA, CRAFTSMAN STYLE

OPEN 5/19 1:00 - 2:30 PMHOST SARAH PARISH : 618-444-5664

2900 HILLCREST - ALTON$84,900 // 3BR, 2BA, POOL, DECK

OPEN 5/19 12:00 - 1:30 PMHOST NANCEE GOTWAY : 618-535-6671

5114 RIVER AIRE - GODFREY$172,000 // 4BR, 3BA, HARDWOOD FLOOR

OPEN 5/19 11:30 - 1:00 PMHOST MICHELLE KUBA : 217-851-5433116 MEREDITH LN. - GLEN CARBON

$367,500 // 3BR, 3BA, NEW CONSTRUCTION

OPEN 5/19 12:00 - 1:30 PMHOST GINNY BECKER : 618-560-9397

1116 DOUGLAS ST. - ALTON$110,000 // 2BR, 1BA, REMODELED

OPEN 5/19 12:00 - 1:30 PMHOST ABBY DELEHANTY : 618-433-9436

821 PARDEE RD. - GODFREY$165,000 // 3BR, 2BA, MOVE IN READY

OPEN 5/19 1:00 - 2:30 PMHOST JOANIE WIEDMAN : 618-980-3656

3921 RIO VISTA - GODFREY$279,000 // 3BR, 3BA, 18 ACRES

OPEN 5/19 2:00 - 3:30 PMHOST NANCEE GOTWAY : 618-535-66718 AIRWOOD DR. - EAST ALTON

$159,900 // 3BR, 3BA, RENOVATED

OPEN 5/19 2:00 - 3:30 PMHOST GINNY BECKER : 618-560-93971711 VINCA DR. - GODFREY

$250,000 // 3BR, 4BA, MOVE IN READY

OPEN 5/19 2:30 - 4:00 PMHOST STEVE MCGARTLAND: 217-461-17221225 STREAMWOOD - CARLINVILLE

$205,000 // 6BR, 6BA, PRICED TO SELL

Tarrant Harman Real Estate and Auction Co.3644 Fosterburg Rd.Alton, IL 62002618-433-9436

Kristen Heitzig-WeldReal Estate BrokerCell: 618-946-9469

OPEN 12:00 - 1:30

1423 White Oak Drive, CarrolltonLocated on nearly a half acre lot, this 3 bedroom, 4 bath

home is located in the established Southgate Estates. With a finished basement, walk in closets, attached 2 car garage and a detached 16x20 shed, you will have plenty of space to grow with a little over 2400 sq. ft.

$174,900

151 Quail Run, BethaltoBACK ON THE MARKET AT NO FAULT TO SELLER! The functional 3 bed/ 3 bath home offers a huge warm welcome and is enveloped in light and comfort. Open concept, a master suite, all new flooring as well

as a finished basement with a living room, bathroom and a spacious storage room. This home retains the value of peaceful living.

$234,900

230 East Main Street, GraftonWelcome to “RAFTON INN” - The overnight-stay business is waiting for you! A turn-key business located in the heart of

Grafton! Entire home sleeps 12. Additional 3 detached units located behind home can sleep 4 per unit for an additional 12.

Can be used for residential or commercial purposes.

$349,900

OPEN 2:30 - 4:00

Real estate auction foR shiRley yancik601 west fiRst south st. mount olive, il

Full brick maintenance Free, 3 bed, 2 baths, upstairs dormer, oFFice, living/dining room, eat-in kitchen home on a corner lot close to schools, parks, downtown stores, restaurants, quick mart/gas station in a nice small town neighborhood home Features a two-car garage, carport, glass 3-door breezeway, brick patio with brick bbq Fireplace and Full Front porch, home consists oF a main, second level & basement with storage rooms

additional Features: kitchen oak cabinets, island w/sink, dormer window, maytag gas range, ge reF, 200 amp elec. service panel updated windows & rooF

over 1800 sq ft of living space on a large 80x140 corner

open house: tuesday, september 15th at 5pmsunday, october 11th at 1pm

directions: corner oF maple and west First. 1 block From main

• Homes are all on one level and are “step free”

• open floor plan witH wide doorways

• oversized rear-entry GaraGes

• lawn care and snow removal provided by Hoa

• base plan is a 3 bedroom plan witH 1,750 s.f. of livinG space

• not a condominium - “your House on your lot”

located on celesta st., davis pond development, Godfrey

call p.J. Jun at 618-806-7226, visit cottaGesatdavispond.com,

or pJ@ouatoGa.com for more information

six Home development

spec Home to be started soon......one vacant lot remains

5411 Godfrey Road, Godfrey, IL 62035 • 618-466-9922

It’s a perfect tIme of year to lIst & buy real estate

Great location for this 1-1/2 story home with lots of space. Eat in kitchen boasts wall to wall white cabinets and counter top. Formal dining w/built in glass front cabinet, 2 bedrooms with possible third bedroom/family room in the upper level. Full basement. Nice level yard

612 E Spruce, Jerseyville $89,500

436 Southard Place, South Roxana $57,900

Great starter or perfect for downsizing, everything on one level. Rental Potential too w/its close proximity to the Refineries. 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, utility/laundry room. Newer siding and windows Oversize carport, spacious yard. Home being freshly painted and other touch-up work is in process.

3 bedroom

Move in Ready

1011 W Mulberry, Jerseyville $49,900

4 6th Street, Carrollton $129,900

Great price - Administrator says: “Settle the Estate!” Diamond in the rough offers 2 bedrooms, eat in kitchen w/ wall to wall cabinets and appliances, nice laundry/utility room w/washer/dryer. Attached 1 car garage, fenced yard.

Spacious home with many updates through out. Gleaming wood floors in large living room and formal dining room with built in shelving and lots of windows. Country kitchen is loaded with classic white cabinets, huge center island and kitchen appliances stay. Enjoy the family room/sun room, 2 spacious bedrooms. Nice lot, attached garage with bonus room off the back ad a new 30 x 40 metal Pole building with electric and concrete.

Updated 3 bedroom 3 bath home in desirable neighborhood close to 255. This home has many updates including the stainless microwave, oven/range, and refrigerator-2018, laminate flooring in lower level-2016, carpet-2016, brick patio-2018, back splash/paint in kitchen-2020, master bath rehabbed including ceramic tile-2020, two tiered deck and above ground pool.

4721 Snow White Terr, Alton $159,9003537 Thomas, Alton $55,000

Renovated 2 bedroom 1 bath on a quiet dead end street. Air Conditioner-2011. Storage room could easily be turned into a half bath or laundry area. Home offers a metal roof and huge backyard.

***Awesome Buys:

204 State Street, Alton (Commercial) $215,000

309 Cobb. E Alton (Duplex) $35,000

402 Wood Rive Ave, East Alton (Duplex) $35,000

938 E Edwardsville Rd, Wood River (Commercial Lot) $59,700

Large showroom in this all brick commercial space with a large shop area, two overhead loading doors and two office spaces all on main level. Lower level has additional storage/shop area and one overhead door access.

2603 E Broadway $230,000

90 S Fairmount, Alton $489,900

One owner home in EXCLUSIVE FAIRMOUNT. Godfrey Township with Alton mailing address. The wow factor will start as you enter the foyer with an 18 foot tall entry and gleaming marble floors. Main floor offers, master suite, hearth room w/gas fireplace, office/bedroom, lovely kitchen, and main floor laundry. Upper level boasts 3-4 bedrooms and a spacious family room. Lower level is partially finished w/ a rec room, bath and workshop. Large deck, patio and three car garage.

Nicely updated 2 bedroom just waiting for you. Freshly painted, nice wood floors in living room, dining and master bedroom. Ceramic in bath and kitchen. Furnace 2014, Roof 2019. Covered patio area, new privacy fence and spacious level yard.

2755 Washington, Granite City $54,900

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Alton,Large Apartment Building

2 Units, 2 Bdrms Each Unit,Spacious Rooms, Off Street

Parking, Good Income466-8277 or 334-8062

For Sale By Owner OPENHOUSE 9/27 1-3 p.m.29 Bethalto Lakes Dr,

Bethalto

Large Lakefront Home2,672sq ft main level on 2acre lot, with huge true L

shaped in ground pool NewLiner 2018. New roof 2015. 41/2 acre lake comes right up

to the edge of the pool. 4Bedrooms, 3 full baths, 1 3/4bath, Main floor laundry Geo-Thermal HVAC system. Fullwalkout basement leads out

to nice patio with garden pondthat has a waterfall. Deck ac-cess from the dining area andthe sun room with steps down

to the pool area. Call 618-304-7288 For More Info andto request a private showing.

Sunday, September 27, 2020 3CThe Telegraph ALTON TELEGRAPH CLASS 01 092720

Alton, 2632 Watalee.,Sat & Sun 8a-5p,ALL PROCEEDS

BENEFIT THEKIDNEY

TRANSPLANT OF ALOVED ONE.

Hot Dogs, Chips &Soda $2.00

Candy Bars $1.00Alton,

4312 Wedgewood,Sat 8a-1p & Sun 8a-

12p, Household Misc.,Clothes, Toys, CraftSupplies, & Tools

East Alton, 501 Broadway,Fri, Sat & Sun 8a-5p, BIGYARD SALE, SUNDAYEVERYTHING IS 1/2

PRICE, Glue Down FloorTile 4'x6'', Bikes, Lots ofScrubs, Men's and Wo-

men's Clothing, BedSpreads, Sheets, Rugs

and LOTS of Housewares

Wood River,176 South Central Ave,Sat 8a-4p & Sun 8a-2p,Baby/Toddler Clothes &

Toys, Adult Clothes,Household Items, Craft

Items, & Misc

Concrete & Masonry

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• Driveways

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• Tuck Pointing

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Our Services Include:• Basement Waterproofing

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• Sump Pump Replacement• Battery Backup Protection

• Downspout Extensions• Mold, Air, Moisture Testing• Real Estate Evaluations

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Tree Service

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• Tree Trimming• Tree Removal• Bucket Truck• Stump Removal• Fully Insured• Free Estimates• Driveway Rock• Skid Loader Service

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LEGALS

20-0842

Notice is hereby giventhat on 10-07-2020, at

10:00 a.m. atA Storage Inn, 4111

Humbert Rd, Alton, IL,62002, 618-462-9580,

the undersigned, AStorage Inn will sell at

Public Sale bycompetitive bidding,

(cash only) thepersonal property

heretofore stored withthe undersigned by:

Unit 7356Raymond Brown

Unit 658 Peter MilienUnit 730

William Klamert IIIUnit 517

Jocelynn RiddlesprigerUnit 556

Whittney LondonUnit 318 Kaury SandersUnit 207 Jamie Baker

Lost & Found

Lost 9/18/20:(Maybe at Alton Lowe's)Man's Silver TourquiseRing, Has Large GreenTrouquise Stone, Fam-ily airloom, REWARD

Call 618-917-4919

Auctions

AUCTIONFIREARMS CONSIGNMENT

AUCTIONFirearms, Military, Knives,

Currency, Uniforms,Collectibles, MORE!October 11th 9am

Edwardsville Moose Lodge7371 Marine Road

Edwardsville, ILLIVE WEBCAST AUCTION!

www.legacysells4u.com

For Sale By Owner

Alton,Large Apartment Building

2 Units, 2 Bdrms Each Unit,Spacious Rooms, Off Street

Parking, Good Income466-8277 or 334-8062

For Sale By Owner

For Sale By Owner OPENHOUSE 9/27 1-3 p.m.29 Bethalto Lakes Dr,

Bethalto

Large Lakefront Home2,672sq ft main level on 2acre lot, with huge true L

shaped in ground pool NewLiner 2018. New roof 2015. 41/2 acre lake comes right up

to the edge of the pool. 4Bedrooms, 3 full baths, 1 3/4bath, Main floor laundry Geo-Thermal HVAC system. Fullwalkout basement leads out

to nice patio with garden pondthat has a waterfall. Deck ac-cess from the dining area andthe sun room with steps down

to the pool area. Call 618-304-7288 For More Info andto request a private showing.

Apartments / Townhouses

Country Setting10 Minutes from Alton

Lg. Nice 1 BR apts.,$470. (618)254-4269

E. ALTON'S FINEST!2 BR, DECKS/PATIOSSWIMMING POOL

618-259-8787

2 Bdrm, 1 Bath, GodfreyDuplex, Safe Neighbor-hood, Senior Friendly,

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Opportunity

Pets

FREE TO GOODHOME: 4 Kittens,3 Female, 1 Male,

3 Months Old, Call AfterNoon, I'm In and Out ofThe House 465-9182

AUTOMOTIVE

2005 Buick Custom LaSabre,64,400 Miles, All Power,

AM/FM/CD, Excellent Condi-tion, Auto Headlights, 3.8 L,

Clear Title, $4,250217-257-1943 (Alton)

Autos For Sale

2002 Ford F150, Sup/Cab,Auto, 4x4 V-8, White,

Some Rust, Runs Good,Asking $2,400,

Call 618-616-2134

Motorcycles

2007 Honda 1800 VTXN1Cycle, Shaft Drive, ExcellentCondition, Always Garaged,

17,000 Miles, All RoutineMaintenance and Check Ups,

$5,800 Firm 618-717-0711

RVs / Campers

2004 A ClassCoachman, 3 Slides,New Flooring, New

Shades, 2 New FrontTires, 31,000 Miles,$48,500, Tow Car

Available For Purchase618-407-6770

EMPLOYMENT

LATERAL HIRE POLICE OFFICER

CITY OF MADISON, IL APPLICATION FOR EMPLOYMENT

The City of Madison, Illinois is accepting applications toestablish an eligibility list for Lateral Hire Police Officers to

serve as full time police officers.

Qualifications and requirements are Illinois Certified PoliceOfficers who have been employed with their agency for a least2 years, process certificate attesting to successfully completion

of the Minimum Standards Basic Law Enforcement TrainingCourse, be a US Citizen, good morals, able to physically

perform the essential job functions, pass a written examination,oral interview and background check.

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By Mark MirkoThe Hartford Courant

HARTFORD, Conn. — Earlier this year, lifelong Plainville, Conn., resident Gary Vincent planted eight giant pumpkin seeds in an unfenced, uncovered garden plot owned by Plainville’s Our Lady of Mercy Church. Vincent, 70, began growing giant pumpkins in 1981 after his wife brought home five seeds from the Big E fair. The following year he grew a 200-pound pump-kin and a 275-pounder the year after that.

“This is when the world record was like 500 and something pounds,” he says. Last year the world record was set at 2,624.6 pounds by Mathias Wil-lemijns of Belgium.

Of the eight seeds he planted in 2020, “How many do you think are left?” Vincent asked before pausing to answer, “zero.”

For Vincent, this year was an especially tough one for pumpkin growing because it brought the added stress of record-breaking heat and humid-ity, wind-damage from Tropical Storm Isaias. And, with COVID-19 social distancing require-ments, many of the fairs that serve as certified weighing stations have

been canceled, including Durham and Topsfield.

Vincent’s last remaining 2020 pumpkin now rests on a bed of sand, where he will take an axe to its thick walls, hoping to har-vest seeds for next year.

At present, the pump-kin is estimated at 1,457 pounds, which is too small for Vincent to com-pete with. According to Vincent, Tropical Storm Isaias took out about 60% of the plant.

Last year, Vincent grew a 2169.5 pound pumpkin that took second at the Topsfield Fair in Massa-chusetts. The first-place finisher was Pomfret resi-dent Alex Noel.

The 29-year-old set a Connecticut record with a 2,294-pound pumpkin and says growing a pump-kin at these weights can require 25 hours a week

in the patch. Coaxing root growth, monitoring soil and water health, mak-ing sure the wall is thick enough to support the pumpkin’s weight, setting mouse traps and fending off hungry invaders.

“It’s amazing how frag-ile they are when they get this big,” Noel said.

Vincent, who is a retired Bristol Police officer, says that to be a successful giant-pumpkin grower, “You gotta be retired and you gotta be crazy.”

“I’m down to the last quarter of my life,” Vincent said. “My big-gest dream is one of two things, I want to get back the state record and I want to break 2300. I want to get up to over 2500, I wanna break the world record.”

At the end of a dirt

road in Higganum, there are three giant pump-kins growing in a netted hoop house behind Ryan and Chelsea Cleveland’s house. Each fruit is sur-rounded by dozens of two-foot tall leaves, each looking like an upturned child-sized umbrella. Wooden planks indicate the narrow path where foot travel is allowed because any damage to the vines and roots trans-porting up to 100-gallons of water a day can mean precious pounds lost.

Ryan, 36, is considered relatively new to the hobby. He first competed in 2017 with a 605-pound pumpkin. But this year, Ryan may have Connecti-cut’s largest.

In keeping with a tra-dition Chelsea says all growers maintain, their pumpkins each have a name, and Mrs. McCleve is expected to weigh more than 2,000 pounds.

On Sept. 26, if Mrs. McCleve stays intact after the strain of being cut from its stem, lifted with a special harness made by Cleveland, and transport-ed by trailer to an East Haddam weigh-in, Ryan and Chelsea will find out

for sure.The East Haddam

weigh-in is being held in lieu of the canceled Dur-ham Fair.

Two weeks before the East Haddam weigh-in, a similar event was held at the Putnam home of grower Gene Lariviere. The smallest pumpkin in that contest, grown by Lariviere, came in at 1,151 pounds. The largest pumpkin weighed in at 1,885.5-pounds and was grown by 37 year-old Mat-thew Dabacco.

Debacco began growing 20 years ago after seeds from a Halloween jack-o-lantern sprouted in his front yard. “If they grow this easy,” he thought then, “I’m going to give it a shot.”

The patch at his par-ent’s house where he cur-rently grows is a 60-foot by 100-foot rectangle on a sloping grade surrounded by a four-fence perimeter. HAM radio antennas belonging to his father are strung above it.

Matthew’s approach to growing giant pumpkins has evolved through a wealth of education and experience diagnosing plant diseases. He has a

Masters degree in Agron-omy and a PhD. in Educa-tion. “What a vet is for animals, I am for plants,” DeBacco said.

DeBacco was part of the team that established UConn’s hemp course under Dr. Jerry Berkow-itz.

In consulting with can-nabis growers bringing him diseased plants he “ended up making the connection to pumpkin.”

“There are amazing similarities” between growing high yield hemp and giant pumpkins, he said.

“From a water stand-point, a nutrient stand-point … the timing very much follows a pumpkin’s schedule,” DeBacco said. “A pumpkin plant is a can-nabis plant horizontal.”

DeBacco says every sea-son growing giant pump-kins is challenging. But this year’s lack of fairs, and their opportunities to show and promote giant pumpkins to newcomers has him missing the “fun part, the showing it.

“I’m constantly missing that.” he said. “The hobby will not survive if you do not have new people com-ing in.”

Big OrangeSelect group of growers seek monster pumpkins

Photos by Mark Mirko | Hartford Courant (TNS)Giant pumpkin grower Ryan Cleveland prepares a pumpkin for the night in a net-covered growing house he built in his backyard. The pumpkin, named Mrs. McCleve, is expected to weigh-in at more than 2,000 pounds.

Chelsea Cleveland holds seeds used to grow giant pumpkins. Championship pumpkin seeds can sell at auction for hundreds of dollars.

By Jason NarkThe Philadelphia Inquirer

PHILADELPHIA — Art is often permanent, hung on muse-um walls for centuries, or cast in bronze and erected outdoors to face the elements and the chang-ing tide of history. The art Jim Victor and Marie Pelton make is transitory and delicious over lobster.

The Conshohocken, Pa., couple have worked with chocolate, cheese, and ice, but butter’s brought them worldwide acclaim. Together, they have created large butter sculptures for agricultural shows and fairs all over the coun-try, including most of the Penn-sylvania Farm Shows since the mid-’90s. This month, the couple unveiled the 52nd annual Ameri-can Dairy Association North East butter sculpture at the virtual New York State Fair, an 800-pound pandemic-theme piece _ including children remote-learn-ing and a masked milkman _ that took them 10 days to create.

Few of their pieces last very long, though one chocolate Stat-ue of Liberty has stood in Las Vegas since 2014.

“The food sculptures we do live on in photographs and pictures, and that’s how we document them,” Pelton said.

There’s no official word on whether Pennsylvania’s 105th annual Farm Show, which is going virtual in January, will feature a butter sculpture, but it’s often a must-see for attendees taking selfies. Last year’s butter sculpture featured mascots from Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, including Gritty, the bizarre and beloved symbol of the Flyers and perhaps the city itself. They spent about 10 days sculpting it.

For the January Farm Show, “they haven’t made a formal announcement, but we think it’s

definitely going to be a go,” Pel-ton said.

Butter is not what Victor, 75, and Pelton, 55, were envisioning when they attended the Pennsyl-vania Academy of the Fine Arts on North Broad Street. Marble, clay, and stone have been the standard sculpting mediums for millennia, and they both have worked with those traditional materials, along with 50-pound blocks of butter.

On a recent weekday after-noon, the couple sat beside each other in a pen on a West Chester farm, sculpting horse miniatures in clay with their fingers and wooden tools. Wruben, Pelton’s Dutch Warmblood horse, sniffed the clay from time to time. The couple sculpt Wruben and other farm animals to sharpen their skills, but they also have contem-plated teaching classes in sculpt-ing, both online and in person.

“Especially during this pan-demic time period where our business has completely stalled, we were thinking what could we do to change up our business,” Pelton said. “It’s typically some-

thing you would find in culinary schools, and we’re not chefs.”

Pelton and Victor have seen the merging of art and food grow over the last decade, particularly on cable television, where shows about elaborate cakes, baking competitions, and chef challenges have become wildly popular. They may have something in the works themselves, but said they’re required to keep mum about it.

Sculpting with butter, done on site, has unique pros and cons, Victor said. At the Farm Show, the sculpture is displayed in a refrigerated glass room, as butter is prone to melt quickly. Melting butter can make the floor slip-pery, and on a few occasions, when sculpting in their outdoor mobile booth, the sun has melted some sculptures, causing the pieces to slide to the floor.

Victor said the sculpting room isn’t as cold as people would think, often 65 degrees. He pre-fers his butter to be warmer and softer.

“That’s the beauty of it,” he said. “You can control the tem-

perature and control the consis-tency of butter.”

Sculptural armatures, akin to skeletons, are usually made of aluminum wire, though for the heavier butter sculptures, steel is used. The butter is often donated by large national producers like Land O’ Lakes or Keller’s, and no, it can’t be melted and driz-zled on popcorn.

“It’s waste butter we get from plants,” Pelton said. “It’s stuff that’s been extruded or cleaned out, or stuff that’s been damaged, or generally can’t be sold to the public.”

Afterward, the butter is donated to farms that have an anaerobic digester, which breaks down organic material and turns it into a fuel.

“Actually, 1,000 pounds of but-ter can turn into 80 pounds of biofuel,” Pelton said.

Victor said his first food sculp-ture was a chocolate portrait of the actor Mickey Rooney for a Broadway play. His first Farm Show sculpture was made in 1995. Marie began working with him in 2000, though she also paints. They’ve sculpted butter on Prince Edward Island and chocolate in China, and they’ve been invited to sculpt in Austra-lia and the United Arab Emir-ates.

Their largest project was a butter sculpture of Paris that weighed 2,370 pounds. It was created for last fall’s Best of France festival, organized by the French community in New York City to showcase French brands in the United States.

In terms of farm shows, Vic-tor and Pelton said, the concept is often suggested by the dairy associations and state agricul-tural departments that hire them. Sometimes, people want too many features in a sculpture, and they have to tone it down.

Sculptors find worldwide fame turning 1,000 pounds of butter into art

Tim Tai | The Philadelphia Inquirer(TNS)Conshohocken artists Jim Victor and Marie Pelton created the butter sculpture for the January 2020 Pennsylvania Farm Show, featuring (from left) Eagles mascot Swoop, the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Steely McBeam and the Flyers’ Gritty.

By Kate LinthicumLos Angeles Times

MEXICO CITY — Ultimo Guerrero is one of the biggest names in Mexican wrestling — a world-famous star known for his punishing moves, long black mullet and silver-capped front tooth.

He has toured Asia, South America and Europe, won dozens of championship belts and can’t walk down the street here without fans pestering him for autographs.

But in the months since the coronavirus struck and wrestling arenas were closed, the 48-year-old icon has been flipping burgers at a food truck.

“Everything stopped,” he said on a recent afternoon, a chef’s apron pulled tight over his bulging pectoral muscles, the smell of sizzling beef and onions wafting down the street outside his house in Mexico City. “Like everybody else, I had to do some-thing to survive.”

Lucha libre — liter-ally “free fight” — is its own religion in Mexico, and wrestlers are gods.

The pandemic has brought them down to earth.

Even the best-known wrestlers were never paid very well, earning about $1,000 a week, most of it from a cut of ticket sales.

COVID-19 forces lucha libre stars to sell street food

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By Phoebe Wall HowardDetroit Free Press

MACKINAC ISLAND — Dave Sullivan has gone from working qui-etly alone at his Ann Arbor, Michigan, home to spending every minute of every day alongside his wife and three young kids with remote learning schedules.

“We’ve been cooped up for six months and just to top off 2020, the fantas-tic year it’s been so far, we’re now doing full-on virtual school,” he said. “We’re tired of seeing the same walls or computer screens. It’s not sustain-able.”

When Sullivan heard about special family remote-learning getaway packages on Mackinac Island, he planned to dis-cuss the option with his wife, Kristy, immediately.

Imagine, he said, taking the kids on an extended field trip as a celebration to end a year that has offered little to celebrate.

Two popular hotels on Mackinac are capitalizing on the idea of virtual learning in an American vacation wonderland, offering parents a place to work and escape with their children.

Lesson plans have been created to help par-ents explore the island and apply math and geography and history in conjunction with the state parks. Schools won’t be offering those fields trips this year because of COVID-19 concerns.

This is the first time the island has promoted the idea of an educational escape for families in October. If not for the coronavirus, hotels would be packed with meetings and conventions and major events, all of which have been canceled.

Internet and cellular connections have recently been updated on the island. Tourism officials said working executives at conferences expect it. Now all that conference space and all those rooms are available to families. This is the first time hotels have organized major family events in the fall.

Educational resources, now available to down-load in PDF format, have

been refreshed by state parks workers to help guide children on island at this time of year. They include reading, activi-ties, lesson plans, music and games.

Lesson plans include topics such as the Straits of Mackinac, the fur trade and its voyagers, how a sawmill became Michigan’s first industrial complex, a day in the life of a soldier stationed at Fort Mackinac, native American contributions, archaeology, 18th and 19th century games, folk-lore tales, diets of native Americans, fur traders and soldiers of Mackinac and vocabulary lists.

“The island is breath-taking but also interac-tive,” said Liz Ware, whose family owns and operates the Mission Point Resort. “There are 70 miles of hiking and biking on the island. It’s 8 miles around the island. The interior is magical. The leaves are chang-ing. This is a wide-open space, a historic destina-tion, with turquoise water that looks tropical. We have biking and horses and history. It’s a perfect destination to bring your family for remote learn-ing.”

The hotel has com-pleted more than $12 million in renovations over the past six years, most recently updating its conference center to offer families space to work with their laptops. After parents finish their work and children finish their studies, families can do real-life learning, Ware said.

There is a library area in the lobby with books about the island and its topography, offering visitors an opportunity to learn about science and rock formations and water levels and the his-tory of lakes. There are garden and history tours run by hotel staff.

At Mission Point — which sits on 18 acres of the sunrise side of the island — the two-day family package starts at $316 a night per adult, $160 per child ages 13 to 17 and $60 for children 12 and under. The pack-age includes daily break-fast and a two-course dinner including a glass of wine for adults, half-day bike rentals, a round of golf at the Greens of Mackinac, Fort Mackinac tickets, Butterfly House tickets, round-trip ferry tickets on Shepler’s and

luggage transfer and han-dling.

“Being outside and having a place to go that has a feeling of safety, this is what we offer,” Ware said. “Mackinac Island is 80% state park. When you are out of the downtown area of the island, there are places to spread out.

“The island is com-mitted to face masks in public places and stay-ing safe,” she said. “As a parent myself, it’s really important.”

Ware’s three children, a college student and two high school seniors, are learning remotely at home in Grosse Pointe for now.

On the island, her father, Dennert Ware, is the owner of the hotel and her brother, Mark Ware, is the CEO. Liz Ware handles sales and marketing.

“Once you get on the ferry, the mainland distractions are left behind,” she said. “You can relax and get away. It’s so important when kids have all these things going on in their heads and they can really relax and focus on school and enjoy everything the island has to offer.”

Mackinac Island offering remote learning escape for families

“We’re tired of seeing the same walls or computer screens.”

— Dave Sullivan

ABOVE: Horses pull a carriage on the grounds of The Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island. RIGHT: A Shepler’s ferry heads towards the dock near Main Street in downtown Mackinac Island, Michigan.

Photos by Ellen Creager | Detroit Free Press (TNS)

By Phil Vettel and Ryan OriChicago Tribune

CHICAGO — Restau-rants, their receipts less than a third of what they customarily would take in, are unable to pay rent. Landlords, with mort-gages and property-tax bills due, can’t survive without income.

Since the coronavirus pandemic hit, resulting in the forced closure six months ago of restau-rants and bars across the country, restaurateurs and landlords have been forced into an uneasy dance, as both camps fight for economic sur-vival.

It’s a give-and-take struggle that will last months more, maybe into next summer.

Partners Allan Perales and David Goldberg, whose GoldStreet Part-ners brokerage matches landlords to restaurant tenants, from big brands such as P.F. Chang’s to single-operator restau-rants such as Tzuco and Galit, see the issue from both sides.

“We’re seeing a lot of panic from the landlord and tenant perspectives,” Perales said. “It’s been a rough four-five months, and nobody’s winning right now. The greatest fear a landlord has is that their restaurant tenants aren’t able to pay rent. That could result in los-ing ownership of the building altogether, hav-ing it go back to the bank or to investors.”

And so, often with little choice, landlords are willing to deal. But how?

“There definitely is no one blanket negotiation,” Goldberg said. “It’s case by case, tenant by tenant. When we try to negoti-ate, we hope for a win-win, but there are differ-ent economic constraints

on both sides.”For restaurants, the

constraints are obvious. The government shut-down kept them dark for months, after which they were permitted to serve only outdoors (though not all restaurants had that option), and later allowed to serve indoors at no more than 25% capacity. Income plum-meted.

For landlords, the dif-ficulty varies.

“The truth is that not all landlords are in the same position,” Perales said. “Depending on the loan you have, some landlords are dealing with their lenders, and some lenders won’t even speak to them. I’ve talked to some whose lenders won’t give them any relief. In the next six months, we’re going to see a lot of those land-lords going into default.”

What can be viewed as inflexibility by landlords, Perales said, may be a matter of limited finan-cial options. “Tenants need to see the landlords’ perspective,” he said, “and landlords need to see their tenants’ per-spective in order to work together.”

For those landlords who can and will be flex-ible, there are several ways to ease a restaurant tenant’s burden. First is abatement, in which the landlord agrees to waive rent entirely for several months. “Just forgiving rent is very rare,” Perales said.

Then there’s partial abatement, in which months of unpaid rent are added to the end of the lease, extending the lease and keeping alive the hope that the money will be paid eventually. A third option is renegotiat-ing the terms of the lease, often setting the rent as a percentage of the restau-rant’s gross sales.

Restaurant survives could depend on uneasy dance with landlords

Chris Sweda | Chicago Tribune (TNS)Gino Battaglia stands outside Brindille restaurant and Blue Chicago in the 500 block of North Clark Street in Chicago on Sept. 18.

By Shashank BengaliLos Angeles Times

SINGAPORE — They work 12-hour shifts, six days a week, on factory floors where temperatures can surpass 100 degrees. Lunch breaks are brief, sick days highly discouraged. Take too long coming back from the bathroom and it’ll be docked from the next paycheck.

When the shift ends, they col-lapse onto bunk beds in crowded dormitories far from home, staring up at ceiling fans, knowing that the next day they’ll do it again _ all for less than $1.50 an hour.

Such is life for tens of thousands of laborers from Nepal, Bangla-desh and other countries toiling in Malaysia to produce one of the pandemic’s essential items: rubber gloves.

COVID-19 has created a windfall for the Malaysian companies that supply nearly two-thirds of the dis-posable latex and synthetic gloves used to fight contamination in hos-pitals, labs, pharmacies and kitch-ens worldwide. But record-breaking sales have been accompanied by

fresh scrutiny over labor practices _ especially treatment of the low-paid migrant workers who run the assembly lines.

The reckoning is fueled by an unlikely source: U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which has res-urrected a century-old trade law to block imports from glove com-panies it suspects of using forced labor.

After years of complaints from labor rights groups, the agency in July banned products from Top Glove, maker of one-quarter of the world’s gloves, citing “reasonable evidence” that the company was subjecting workers to abusive living and working conditions, excessive overtime and what the International Labor Organization calls debt bond-age.

Gloves that help fight COVID-19 made in sweatshop conditions

Photos by Mohd Rasfan |AFP (Getty Images/TNS)A worker inspects disposable gloves at the Top Glove factory production line in Shah Alam on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sat-urday is set to nomi-nate Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, capping a dra-matic reshaping of the federal judiciary that will resonate for a generation and that he hopes will provide a needed boost to his reelection effort.

Republican senators are already lining up for a swift confirma-tion of Barrett ahead of the Nov. 3 election, as they aim to lock in conservative gains in the federal judi-ciary before a potential transition of power. Trump, meanwhile, is hoping the nomination will serve to galvanize his supporters as he looks to fend off Dem-ocrat Joe Biden.

An ideological heir to the late conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, Barrett would fill the seat vacated after the

Sept. 18 death of lib-eral icon Ruth Bader Ginsberg, in what would be the sharpest ideological swing since Clarence Thomas replaced Justice Thur-good Marshall nearly three decades ago. She would be the sixth justice on the nine-member court to be appointed by a Repub-lican president, and the third of Trump’s first term in office.

For Trump, whose 2016 victory hinged in large part on reluctant support from conserva-tive and white evan-gelicals on the promise of filling Scalia’s seat with a conservative, the latest nomination brings his first term full circle. Even before Ginsburg’s death, Trump was running on having confirmed in excess of 200 fed-eral judges, fulfilling a generational aim of conservative legal activists.

Trump to nominate conservative Amy Coney Barrett for court