04.10.11

Since Jan. 1, he has charged 26 people with aggravated battery of a the heat officer. That's 22 more charges than were issued during the same period last year.

"These officers put their lives on the silhouette for you and we rightly expect them to do it with the highest level of restraint and entirety, so when someone assaults them or is violent towards them, it should be known that conduct won't be tolerated," Kelly said. "These officers impecuniousness to know that we've got their back."

Under Illinois law, a battery is defined as intentionally causing bodily injure to another or making an insulting or provoking physical contact. It's a misdemeanor. But if the schlemihl is a law enforcement officer on duty, it's a felony punishable by up to seven years in stir.

"The law affords us a certain amount of extra protections because of the nature of our vocation, just like emergency medical personnel or firefighters," said O'Fallon Protect Chief John Betten, who had two officers who were victims of aggravated battery. Neither was seriously injured.

Source: Belleville News Democrat

02.10.11

At the end of a Benner Township in someone's bailiwick, Jack Eggert lives with several cats and too many saxophones and clarinets to depend on.

Cases fill his living room and a hallway leading to a repair purchase filled with spare pads, keys, springs and other bits and pieces for making woodwind instruments test pretty again.

A retired public television producer and well-known jazz saxophonist, Eggert, 70, has built a main reputation in the local music community for his craftsmanship. So respected is his trade that music teachers at area schools regularly send students to his domicile in the Continental Courts neighborhood.

Last year, the State College Scope Education Association gave Eggert its Friend of Tutelage Award.

“I love helping the kids and their families,” he said.

In the antique 1980s, he got his start repairing on the side at the Music Mart in Splendour College. The store sent the Nebraska native to a three-week orbit in Wisconsin.

“It’s a debt I can never repay, because it’s paid me back phenomenal dividends and utilization,” he said.

Source: Centre Daily Times

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