Archive for November 2006

Cancellations 11/30/06

Watseka HS girls baskeball tonight at Paxton has been cancelled and is rescheduled to 1/20/07 @ 11a in Paxton. 

Iroquois West HS girls basketball game to be played at St. Joe has been cancelled and rescheduled for 1/16/07 at 6p

CPCI girls baskeball for tonight at Cresent City has been cancelled - no reschedule dates as of yet.

Iroquois West Middle School boys basketball ball played at Forrest has been cancelled as well no practice tonight.

South Newton varsity girls basketball vs. Tri-County has been cancelled tonight.

South Newton 7th grade boys basketball vs. Segur has been cancelled tonight

Glen Raymond boys basketball against Cissna Park has been cancelled for tonight.

Milford HS girls basketball at Milford HS vs. Georgetown has been cancelled and no r/s date as of yet.



WGFA 12 Days of Christmas

The WGFA 12 Days of Christmas is under way with your chance to win a grill, all the accessories and even the steaks.  All you have to do is sign up at participating sponsor locations.  On Friday we'll be making stops at Travel Discoveries and at Berkots.  Sign up those locations for the daily prize and at all locations to get registered for our Grand Prize.  We'll draw it on Fridary Dcember 15th on Illiana's Choice for the 80's, 90's, and Now.  94 Point 1 WGFA.



Faxline Trivia Winner from 11/30/06

WGFA's at work Faxline Trivia is played every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 6:45, 9:05, 11:40. and 4:40.  We'll have the answer to the days question on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.

If you'd like to participate it's easy.  Just fax in your answer to the question asked on company letterhead with contact information to 815-432-4957.  You can also submit the answer at WGFARadio.com.   Please include all contact information.

Congrats to Laurie Taylor from Personal Finance Company.  She won a $40 gift certificate for flowers, and a Buzzword Board Game and Swap! Card Game. Lauries favorite family Holiday activity is to watch Da Bears. 

 Tomorrow we'll give you tickets to Ballads and Baseball  show in Kankakee on December 17th at the Kohl Center in Kankakee and to the Sugar Creek Symphony Victorian Christmas Open House. 

Tune in for the winner the next morning 6:45 and again at 9:05 as well as 11:40 and 4:40 on Illiana’s Choice for the 80’s, 90’s, and Now…  94 point 1 WGFA.



WGFA NEWS 11/30/06

- former Governor Ryan awarded bail, avoids jail….

- fatality victim identified….

- Wal-Mart projects "Go" in Kankakee, Watseka project studied….

November's unusual warm weather ending; Illiana braces for sleet and ice.  Details on WGFA, 94.1 FM.

*  Former Illinois Governor George Ryan will be allowed to stay out of jail while appealing his conviction on corruption charges.  A federal appeals court granted bail to Ryan.  Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer had refused to grant Ryan bail, but the appeals court overruled her Tuesday. 

*  An Illinois House committee has approved an amended minimum wage increase.  The proposal includes a dollar-an-hour increase in the minimum wage next summer and then 25-cents each year through 2009.  That would bring the state's minimum wage up to eight dollars an hour.

*  The victim of a traffic accident in Newton County, Indiana has been identified. 49-year-old Walter Knapik Jr. of Chesterton was fatally injured when his pickup struck the rear of a semi trailer.  Sheriff's Polcie and the Coroner's office investigated at State Road 114 and County Route 200-East just past 10 am Tuesday.  The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.  The semi driver–35-year-old Jeff Huffer of Hebron–was not injured.  The accident remains under investigation.

*  Two Wal-Mart developments in Kankakee County are progressing; a site in Watseka is under study.  Super Wal-Mart projects at the I-57 and Route 45 exchange on the south side of Kankakee and another along Route 50 north of Bradley are both moving forward, according Kankakee Regional Chamber of Commerce Director Dave Hinderliter.  Both projects are independent of each other, according to Hinderliter.  Future development announcements are expected.  In Watseka, Mayor John Weidert confirms developers are studying a potential Wal-Mart development at the site of the former Value Village Mall at Routes 1 and 24-East. 

94.1 FM, WGFA — "Your Illiana News Source" 

                



Faxline Trivia for 11/29/06

WGFA's at work Faxline Trivia is played every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 6:45, 9:05, 11:40. and 4:40.  We'll have the answer to the days question on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.

If you'd like to participate it's easy.  Just fax in your answer to the question asked on company letterhead with contact information to 815-432-4957.  You can also submit the answer at WGFARadio.com.   Please include all contact information.

Today we've got a $40 gift certificate for flowers, and a Buzzword Board Game and Swap! Card Game.  We want to know what your favorite holiday activity is?  Is it going Christmas tree shopping, or getting together for the holidays?  Let us know and we'll pick a winner out of all of the entries so make sure you fax in your answer or e-mail it with complete contact information.

Tune in for the winner the next morning 6:45 and again at 9:05 as well as 11:40 and 4:40 on Illiana’s Choice for the 80’s, 90’s, and Now…  94 point 1 WGFA.



Faxline Trivia for 11/29/06

WGFA's at work Faxline Trivia is played every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 6:45, 9:05, 11:40. and 4:40.  We'll have the answer to the days question on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.

If you'd like to participate it's easy.  Just fax in your answer to the question asked on company letterhead with contact information to 815-432-4957.  You can also submit the answer at WGFARadio.com.   Please include all contact information.

Today we've got a $40 gift certificate for flowers, and a Buzzword Board Game and Swap! Card Game.  We want to know what your favorite holiday activity is?  Is it going Christmas tree shopping, or getting together for the holidays?  Let us know and we'll pick a winner out of all of the entries so make sure you fax in your answer or e-mail it with complete contact information.

Tune in for the winner the next morning 6:45 and again at 9:05 as well as 11:40 and 4:40 on Illiana’s Choice for the 80’s, 90’s, and Now…  94 point 1 WGFA.



WGFA NEWS 11/29/06

> Traffic mishap kills 1 in Newton County, IN ….

> IN Marine killed in Iraq….

> IL AG Director honored….

> High school basketball winners….

Maybe one more day of warm weather before snow flies. Highs again today in Illiana in the 60s.

* One person was killed in a single-car accident Tuesday in Newton County, Indiana.  Details have been unavailable from the sheriff's department.  County Coroner Larry Bartley said an autopsy was to be completed.  Next of kin were being notified. Emergency personnel answered the call to State Road 114 and County Road 200-E.  Brook and Morocco fire and county ambulance personnel were at the scene.

* A roadside bomb explosion in Iraq killed a Marine from central Indiana 10 weeks after he had arrived in the country.  Lance Cpl. James Davenport of Danville (IN) was killed Wednesday in Iraq's volatile Anbar province.  Military officials told the Davenport family he was driving a Humvee that was hit by a roadside bomb.  The blast instantly killed him and two other Marines. He was the 71st person from Indiana to have died in the Mideast since the buildup of Iraq in 2003.

* Illinois Agriculture Director Chuck Hartke Tuesday received the iBIO 2006 Leadership in Biotechnology Award.  The award recognizes Hartke's work to expand the use of renewable fuels and to incorporate ag into the Illinois pavilion at BIO 2006–a conference held in Chicago last April.

* Watseka, CPCI, CENTRAL and Milford were among the high school teams on the court last night. 

 

  • "Your Illiana News Source" — 94.1 FM, WGFA  


Bruce Weber is Back!

The first Bruce Weber Show of the year will be Monday, December 4 from 7 – 8:00 p.m. at the Great West Hall of Memorial Stadium. Fans are encouraged to attend. Coach Weber will be arriving at approximately 6:15 p.m. and will be signing autographs prior to the show and during the show breaks as a fundraiser for Coaches vs. Cancer.  Then at 7:05, WGFA will chat with Illinois Basketball Coach Bruce Webber about their performance this season on 94 Point 1 WGFA.



Illini Game of the Week

The Fighting Illini Basketball team plays Maryland on Tuesday night and we'll have a tape delay of that game following the BBCHS at Watseka game live.  WGFA coverage begins with Dralle's Game of the Week around 7:15 with the local pre-game from Watseka with Mike Harris and Darryl Focken  on 94 Point 1 WGFA.



Faxline Trivia Answer from Monday 11/27/06

WGFA's at work Faxline Trivia is played every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 6:45, 9:05, 11:40. and 4:40.  We'll have the answer to the days question on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.

If you'd like to participate it's easy.  Just fax in your answer to the question asked on company letterhead with contact information to 815-432-4957.  You can also submit the answer at WGFARadio.com.   Please include all contact information.

Congrats to yesterday's winner.  Rita Gray said that the most common way to use up leftover turkey is in Sandwiches.  Tomorrow we've got a $40 gift certificate for flowers.  You can win by listening for the Faxline Trivia question starting at 6:45, 9:05, 11:40, and 4:40 on WGFA.

We'll pick a winner out of all of the correct entries so make sure you fax in your answer or e-mail it with complete contact information.

Tune in for the winner the next morning 6:45 and again at 9:05 as well as 11:40 and 4:40 on Illiana’s Choice for the 80’s, 90’s, and Now…  94 point 1 WGFA.