BY DANI TIETZ dani@sjodaily.com St. Joseph, Ill. – You may know St. Joseph’s 89-year old Harley Winn as “Tex.” But you may not know that Model A and Model T Ford owners around the world turn to him when nothing else seems to work. Winn would not classify himself as […]
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Denhart shows of Model A cars, talks about Prairie A’s Antique Ford Club
BY DANI TIETZ dani@sjodaily.com Ford Model A and Model T cars usually draw a crowd. That’s what happened in downtown St. Joseph, Ill., Saturday between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. at the Prairie A’s Antique Ford Club’s Antique Ford Day. But for St. Joseph’s Richard Denhart, owner of two Model […]
Kidd created a space of belonging for students who were in tough situations
BY DANI TIETZ dani@sjodailycom The best thing we can do is just get to know someone. Sometimes that takes coming back each day with an open heart, other times, it means opening up and sharing your thoughts. St. Joseph’s Nancy Kidd has spent her life trying to do both. Kidd […]
Black: “…all of the hard work and effort had finally paid off”
By FRED KRONERfred@mahometnews.com High school athletes have a four-year window of opportunity to participate in an IHSA state tournament. Karl Black is thankful that those same standards aren’t applied to officials. The long-time St. Joseph resident got the call last week to serve as an umpire at the Class 1A […]
Corey Plotner earns Masters Award
BY DANI TIETZdani@sjodaily.com Corey Plotner is on pace to run 2019 miles in 2019. The Ogden native picked up running as a freshman at St. Joseph-Ogden High School in 1991 just to stay in shape for basketball season. “I played basketball that one year and it was all running after […]
Rice learns life lessons through preparation for C-U Ballet’s Swan Lake
photo by Claire Daly It’s every ballerina’s dream to dance in iconic productions such as Swan Lake, the Nutcracker, Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty, but not every ballerina gets to. As hundreds of spectators take their seats at the historic Virginia Theater for the Champaign-Urbana Ballet’s production of Swan Lake on […]