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City of Grayville Recognized For Water Excellence!

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.

Grayville Days 2007 Pageant Winners

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


 
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 iAlbion, 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


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.

New Police Cars
  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.

 
Grayville Police Report 2005
 

Ethanol Plant to be built at Grayville

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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