Boys and Girls Club in Comical-News Obituaries

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At the very bottom of todays obituaries the boys and girls club is listed. Great work Commercial-News!

Atleast Danville is ahead on something!

Local STD rates above the norm

Health officials not surprised by reports

BY BARBARA GREENBERG
DANVILLE — Recent headlines announced that at least one in four teenage American girls has a sexually transmitted disease. The statistics were based on a study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In response to that study, Vermilion County Health Department Health Education Program Coordinator Linda Bolton said local rates of STDs are much higher than the norm.”

Cathy Hubbard, family planning/STD nurse coordinator for VCHD, agreed. Hubbard, who has worked in the family planning department for the past eight years, said “One in four (teens with STDs) doesn’t sound high to me at all.”

Vermilion County may even exceed those numbers. According to Vermilion County Health Department statistics for the last quarter of 2007, 39.2 percent of local teens between 15- and 19-years old who were tested for STDs were infected.

Karen Schildt, APN, CNM, Carle Clinic-Danville Obstetrics/Gynecology, called the CDC study’s statistics “not surprising.” She attributed the local numbers to “the high percentage of teen sexual activity” in the area.

Sexual activity among teens is nothing new, but the behavior may now result in more than unwanted pregnancies. Sexually transmitted diseases are on the increase among this age group. According to the CDC, about 3.2 million teenage girls are infected with an STD.

Ranging from genital warts to human papillomavirus to HIV/AIDS, these STDs have disastrous and often fatal consequences. The Associated Press reported the risk of both infertility and cancer rises in those infected with STDs.

And those infected are getting younger.

“We have people come to the STD clinic who are 12,” Hubbard said. VCHD provides family planning services to those from 10- to 29-years old.

“Women who come through the family planning clinic and who are under 25 are automatically screened for STDs if they are sexually active,” Hubbard added.

“The problem is the re-infection rate,” she said. “People get tested and get treated, but their partners don’t,” she said. “If we treat someone (for an STD), we ask for the names of their partners. We get about a 50-50 response.

“Those (untreated) partners re-infect them or infect others.”

Micki Crome visits Vermilion County schools to talk about this problem. As VCHD’s associate health educator, she goes to any school that requests her ranging from middle schools/junior highs to Danville Area Community College.

“The group 24-years-old and under is at the highest risk for STDs,” Crome said. “Kids know more about sex than a generation ago, but they also have lots of misin-formation.”

According to the Associated Press, “Some teens define sex as only intercourse, yet other types of intimate behavior including oral sex can spread some diseases.”

Crome said, “A lot of teens are having unprotected sex. They don’t realize the risk (of infection with an STD).

“There’s general ignorance,” she said.

Book store has fire sale!!

Blaze engulfs downtown business

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DANVILLE — The sky above downtown Danville was filled with smoke this morning as firefighters battled a blaze at Danville Bookworld at 107 N. Vermilion St.

Firefighters got the call about 10:17 a.m., and the building was fully engulfed when they arrived. Several engines responded, and firefighters with a ladder truck were attacking the roof at press time.

Power was shut off to the area.

The Vermilion County Courthouse is closed for the remainder of the day due to the downtown fire.

At first, there were concerns that someone was inside the building, but those concerns were dismissed after a search. Medix was called to the scene, although there have been no injuries reported.

Police cars blocked the road from North to Harrison Street. The smoke was so thick that spectators couldn’t see past North Street.

Danville Bookworld moved into the site once occupied by Two’s Company just last September. It had been located at 1501 N. Bowman Ave. for 25 years.

The bookstore attracted customers with its inventory of more than 100 comic book titles and used books. Part of the business also was dedicated to games.

This is money well spent!!

Area officials OK new beltline study

Bypass would bring industry, jobs here

BY JENNIFER BAILEY
DANVILLE — Talk about the beltline resurfaced Thursday at a Danville Area Transportation Study meeting at the Tilton Village Hall.

Vermilion County Highway Engineer Bob Andrews asked that a beltline necessity discussion and consensus vote be put on the agenda following a meeting with city officials last week.

“It’s not a (metropolitan planning organization) study,” DATS Director Adam Aull said.

But Andrews said having all the stakeholders’ concerns voiced, and making sure everyone is aware and keeps updated on the study, is important to keep it going.

Andrews said the consensus wasn’t to approve anything, but to show the Federal Highway Administration that the Metropolitan Planning Organization overseeing transportation issues in the area supports the beltline study.

Aull said the beltline remains in DATS’ long-range plans.

The DATS policy committee voted 3-2 to support continued study discussion.

Tilton and Georgetown mayors Dave Phillips and Darrell Acord, respectively, voted against the study’s necessity, while Vermilion County Board Chairman Jim McMahon, executive assistant to the mayor Theresa Brazelton serving as proxy for Mayor Scott Eisenhauer and Illinois Department of Transportation Program Development Engineer Dennis Markwell voted in favor of it.

“We need economic growth here. We need some jobs,” McMahon said.

The beltline aims to promote industrial and job growth and tie in with existing rail, road and airport infrastructure.

“I can’t see any growth from this,” Phillips said.

Andrews said the purpose and need statements for the beltline have been finalized with the FHWA. Now environmental assessments must be completed. The last city council vote on the beltline occurred in November 2006.

Aldermen approved an agreement to increase the consultant’s costs for additional environmental and property study services for the Danville Beltline Study with Hanson Engineers of Springfield. State funding that’s earmarked for this study will pay for the total $942,270. The engineers were to go back to update environmental studies and property line and property owner information from 10 years ago.

Also in November 2006, there was an informational meeting for residents to learn more about the proposed eastside bypass to improve traffic flow and open up more industrial development sites. Some residents are concerned about its need and potential to hurt existing businesses, the impacts on their properties and increased noise and traffic.

The exact location of the approximately 300-foot corridor beltline hasn’t been determined.

The proposed route runs from West Newell Road, hooking south on Bowman Avenue, going east on Poland Road and then turning south through farm fields, east of the railroad tracks east of the airport and hooking up with Interstate 74 and Perrysville Road.

It would stretch south between Daisy Lane and Brewer Road.

Engineers determined there was no need to tie it in with southern Illinois Route 1 because of expected light traffic on the southern section.

The Federal Highway Administration approved construction of a new Interstate 74 interchange between the Bowman and Lynch Road exits three years ago.

The city hired Hanson Engineers in 1999 to study the feasibility of creating a highway that would bypass the city on the eastside to connect I-74 with Illinois Route 1 north of Danville.

Jim Moll, the lead project engineer with Hanson Engineers of Springfield, has said $200,000 to $300,000 in grant money already has been spent for the study. About $400,000 to $500,000 more is needed to finish it.

An environmental assessment process will determine where to build the road. Elevations, lanes of roadway and other details must be determined prior to land acquisition.

The beltline is at least eight years away, and that’s if funding is available.

Nothing Happening!?!?!

I haven't posted anything recently just for the fact that absolutely "Nothing" has happened in Danville for quite a while. The Commercial-News doesn't report about the local crime, nobody outside of Danville cares about Danville so they choose to ignore the little town in Illinois that is an embarrassment to the rest of the state. There isn't even any positive news to report for Danville, there is literally "Nothing" going on in Danville. There have been the few fluff stories about fixing pot holes, the cities trouble with their cell phones, nothing major or earth shattering! I am starting to get really bored with Danville, when will the next major crime involving a "former Chicago resident" happen or some political issue with the local government and funding happen? Maybe an announcement will come about "a major business" considering coming to town will get everyones hopes up for a week or two. If something doesn't happen soon I am going to have to start writing about Decatur!