WEEKEND NEWS NOTES on WGFA >
Labor Day activities…Five-Year-Old gets on wrong bus…Knife-wielding man in custody…Reaction to Senator McCain’s V-P runningmate….
- The Kankakee River Valley Regatta, Hoopeston’s Sweet Corn Festival, and the Earl Park (IN) Fall Festival all offer plenty of weekend activities in the WGFA-listening area. Power boat races grace the waters of the Kankakee River this holiday weekend. Several classifications of nationally-sanctioned races are held all weekend long.
- Thirty-eight states are expected to be represented in the National Sweet Heart Pageant at Hoopeston. Runners-up from respective state’s Miss America Pageants compete for the Sweet Heart crown. The pageant is held at McFerren Park. Of course, there’s plenty of free sweet corn all weekend long at the 65th Annual National Sweetcorn Festival.
- Bluegrass music, truck and tractor pulls, a softball tourney, and plenty of vendors are at the Earl Park Fall Festival in Benton County, IN. Activities run thru Labor Day Monday.
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- A lost five-year student has the Central School District putting new procedures in place on how students will be loaded on buses. One five-year-old kindergarten student got on the wrong bus Wednesday, sparking concern from parents and school officials. The Chebanse Elementary School student boarded the wrong bus and exited at Clifton, whyen he actually lived in Ashkum. Superintendent Tonya Evans said the district has implemented a revised system for loading students to eliminate any confusion. Children will also be educated as to what they should do in the event they get lost.
- A knife-wielding man was taken into custody in Milford Thursday night after threatening to hurt himself. Milford Police received information about the man armed with a knife. The man fled into a cornfield when approached by authorities. A staging area was set up by Milford Police and the Iroquois County Sheriff’s department. The man was taken into custody without incident when he exited the cornfield.
- A truck driver was hospitalized in Kankakee Friday after he was involved in a colission with a car on Route 17. 52-yr-old Harold Kochopolous (Kuh-chop-uh-loss) of Sauk Village was taken to Riverside Hospital with serious injuries. His semi rear-ended a car that was making a left turn onto County Road 16000-E. The car’s driver, Bill Singer of Midlothian, was not injured. State Police investigated at 2:20 pm.
- Kankakee Judge Clark Erickson sentenced a 34-yr-old Kankakee woman to nine years in prison after she plead guilty to second-degree murder. Angela Latty stabbed her live-in boyfriend to death in february after an argument in their Maple Street apartment. 40-yr-old Eddie Williams died from a single stab wound to his chest.
