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City
of Grayville Recognized For Water Excellence! |
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Julie Ann Janssen, acting chief of the
Division of Oral Health for IDPH, at 76th Illinois
Potable Water Supply Operators Association Conference,
presents water excellence award to Grayville water
commissioner, Jesse Houser. Grayville was one of 423
statewide recognized for having mandated levels for all
12 months of 2006. 9th year in a row to get award from
IDPH and EPA.
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Grayville Days 2007 Pageant Winners |
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Little Mister
Austin Cowling |
Miss Grayville
Paige Bosecker |
Little Miss Grayville
Carsyn Robinson |
Grayville Days
2007- A Huge Success! 
Grayville Days 2007 was deemed a huge
success by its organizers. Huge crowds turned out for
the five-day Labor Day weekend festival. Pictured is
the throng at Saturday's free
concert by Confederate Railroad, estimated as high as
5,000.
- Photo courtesy The Navigator
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September -
2006
WINTER HEATING ASSISTANCE
Wabash Area Development, Inc. is now
making appointments and taking applications for winter
heating assistance.
More information is available from your local WADI
office. Grayville
residents should go
to the office in Albion, the office is at
334 Industrial Drive, and the phone number is 445-2379.
Major improvements have
been completed at the VA Hospital in Marion, IL. A new
in-patient ward on the third floor was dedicated on Tuesday.
Instead of the old open wards that housed as many as 8
patients with one shared bathroom, the new facility features
rooms for one or two patients with a private bath.
The
Grayville Library Boosters, Inc.
The Illinois 510c3 non profit corp. are working towards
funding a new library and learning center for Grayville and
the surrounding community. Their goal is to raise $300,000
in three years. As of 4-28-06 the Boosters have raised
$159,710. The property for the site of the new library
was generously donated by Integra Bank NA The
Grayville Library Boosters invite you to join them in
leaving a lasting legacy for Grayville's history and to
provide a solid learning foundation for our children. Your
donations are essential in funding the new Library / Museum
Building. Under the Internal Revenue Code, 100% of your gift
is tax deductible. The Boosters would like to thank you in
advance for your donation! Please make donations the:
Grayville Library Boosters, Inc.
122 S. Court, Grayville, IL. 62844 |
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March 30, 2006
Ten finalists have been named in the annual
Wayne-White Electric Youth to Washington Essay Contest.
The finalists are Travis Thompson, Josh Gray and Ilesha
Rhodes of Grayville, Jennifer Brinkley, Ben Lemmon and
Dylan Bowman of Norris City, Jessica South of Enfield,
Kent Kiefer of Dahlgren, Rachel Campbell of McLeansboro
and Elizabeth Bierman of Carmi. The finalists will attend
the Illinois Electric Co-op Youth Day in Springfield April
5.
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March - 2006 |
Two new 2006 Dodge Chargers have been striped and are now in
service along a black unmarked vehicle.
Jr. Bison win regional title
The Grayville seventh grade volleyball team came from behind
to capture the Illinois Elementary Association Class 7A
regional championship in Albion Thursday.
The Bison, coached by Kim Milligan and Tricia DiMaggio,
dropped the first game of the match, 17-21, to West Salem (a
feeder program for Edwards County High School), then came
back to win the next two, 21-17, 21-14.
News Summary
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Wabash Christian Retirement Center in Carmi has announced
plans to build a $5.1 million, 49-unit senior adult
supportive living facility. Groundbreaking for the facility
has been set for April 2006.
Old-time country music star Little Jimmy Dickens will
headline this year's Bluegrass Festival in Grayville. The
festival is set for Aug. 4-6 at the city's park. |
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Grayville Police Report
2005 |
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Ethanol Plant to be built at Grayville
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A local
company plans to construct a fuel ethanol plant on
Grayville's south side as well as restore rail lines through
the area to serve the plant.
The project was announced Friday, October 7th, 2005,
afternoon by Ed Bailey of Browns, chief executive officer
and president of Illini Cropland & Energy, and the company's
vice president, Allen Wilson of Fairfield, at the site of
the ethanol plant just east of the Super 8 motel south of
Grayville. Joining them was Mike Bryan, CEO of
Colorado-based BBI International, a consulting firm to the
renewable fuels industry, which conducted the feasibility
study for the project and will guide development of the new
plant.
The size of the plant is "yet to be determined," Bryan said,
but he estimated it to cost between $75 and $100 million,
producing 60 to 75 million gallons of fuel ethanol each
year. When completed, the plant will employ "someplace
around 50 people," Bryan said. Construction will take from
12 to 14 months and will create 50 to 100 construction jobs,
he said. It will be constructed on an 80-acre site Bailey
purchased earlier this year from SJD Farms, based in
Evansville, Ind. Total annual revenue for the plant will be
$80 to $120 million, depending on
the size of the plant, with 20 percent of that coming from
the production of high-quality distiller's grain for a
number of agricultural purposes, Bryan
said.
The plant will use between 20 and 30 million bushels of corn
per year. Bailey said he anticipates development of a
distribution center at the site to handle the outflow of the
plant's products.
Bryan said it will take 16 to 21 months before IC&E is ready
to break ground at the site. "Basically, it's a 2 1/2-year
project until there's steam coming out of the stack," he
said. Bailey said there is no timetable for restoration of
the rail line, the first phase of which will run from the
Norfolk-Southern line at Browns to the plant site at
Grayville. The second phase will entail reconstruction of
the old Illinois Central bridge across the Wabash River to
reach the CSX line at Poseyville, Ind. A section of the
bridge caved in during last January's record flood.
Bailey said he has received permission from the federal
Surface Transportation Board to reclaim the right-of-way for
rail use. Part of the property constituting the old Indiana
Hi-Rail system was held by the Indiana Trails Fund for use
as a bicycle trail.
Bailey praised the White County Economic Development Group
as well as the City of Grayville and the Greater Wabash
Regional Planning Commission for their assistance with the
project.
Among those on hand for the announcement were WEDG Executive
Director JoEllen Seil and her assistant, Sandra Irvine,
Grayville Mayor Joe Bisch and GWRPC Executive Director
Brandi Stennett. |
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