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B2 The Pantagraph Friday, November 27, 2004 www.pantagraph.com OUTAGES 4 if I i V-" ill "What's frustrating is this perception that we were not delivering on our contract with the city. We have nearly $2 million invested in the project and Mike and John are there every day working." Barry Kemp investor in Bloomington Partners yj V. ARENA FROM Bl Nelson said Hamilton asked him a few weeks ago if there was an internal agreement. "This happened very fast," he added. "We were moving things forward and we're disappointed we weren't given enough time." Kemp said he received an e-mail from Hamilton Nov.

15 asking about the status of an apparent rift among the members of Bloomington Partners and if there was a timeline to resolve those issues. Hundman sent a letter Nov. 16 to the city offering to take over arena management. Kemp said he and Hamilton spent the next couple of days trying to reach each other but had not talked by the time of the council meeting one week after Kemp received the e-mail. "I had no idea this was happening," Kemp said.

In its contract with the city, Bloomington Partners offered a $7.5 million investment to the project by providing an East Coast Hockey League team, an arena football team, someone to buy the naming rights and other in-kind investments such the future of the team, adding it could be moved someplace else or simply eliminated when the ECHL meets in January. "What's frustrating is this perception that we were not delivering on our contract with the city," Kemp said. "We have nearly $2 million invested in the project and Mike and John are there every day working." For Nelson and Butler, their side contract with the city remains intact. Butler and Nelson are currently operating as Central Illinois Arena Management. Their work involves selling the suites and promoting the arena before it o'pens.

"We still need to sit down and talk with Tom (Hamilton) about where we go from here, but we are still on-board as Central Illinois Arena Management," Nelson said. In his proposal, Hundman said his group will hire at least two day-to-day on-site managers who will have experience and dedication to the project. "Well, that sure sounds like John and but we have not had any contact with Hundman or BNAM," Nelson said. "John and I are from here and believe strongly in this project." im as concession equipment that would be brought in by food and beverage vendors. Kemp said the group is potentially out the $1.6 million for the hockey team and the more than $300,000 in legal fees and hockey franchise fees.

Kemp owns the ECHL team from Ontario, which had received the league's approval to move to Bloomington. Kemp said he does not know FROM Bl It worked out fine for Robin Bell of Atlanta, who used a gas stove to cook Thanksgiving dinner for her family despite a power outage But she stayed overnight in Bloomington after the cold took its toll. At 6 a.m. Friday she started shopping on a portion of Veterans Parkway that wasn't blacked out. At the Harms household in rural Flanagan, the lack of power brought the potential for basement flooding.

Joel Harms, 18, said the sump pump backup generator required gas refueling every two hours. He and a friend, Greg Lloyd of Cornell, stayed up all night and headed to the Twin Cities for shopping as dawn neared Friday. "Thanksgiving's ruined," Harms said. "I thought I'd come down." By late Friday afternoon, Corn Belt had snagged extra crews from electric cooperatives in southern Illinois. Concentrated outages were reported in El Paso, Sector, Kappa, Minier, Carlock and Danvers.

Scattered outages were reported in Hartsburg, Hopedale, Atlanta, McLean, Stanford and near Lawndale. Workers on Friday restored power to parts of the Maplewood subdivision in Normal, where blowing trees and galloping lines met Wednesday night along a backyard fence between Crescent Lane and Belt Avenue. Fox said 200 Ameren crews some from Missouri were working to fix wide-spread damage. Hawkinson pleaded with homeowners and others to let professionals deal with power lines and nearby trees. Trying to knock snow off a line or tall tree is a bad idea that can have grave consequences, he said.

Hawkinson tipped his hat to the hundreds of utility line workers, support staff and emergency personnel through- Kls" urr. Si CLOTHES 4 before March. Friends and family will be treated to "a reveal party" when Matesevac returns home. "I can't wait to see my wife's face when she sees the new me. I call it Ed Version 2.0," said Matesevac.

Most of the clothing filmed at Matesevac's home was packed up and shipped to New York for the show. That includes 40 long-sleeved dress shirts, more than 30 pairs of slacks, 20 ties, 20 pairs of socks and 10 of his 28 pairs of shoes. Unlike many people featured on the show who make mis matched or drab clothing choices, Matesevac's dilemma is the opposite. "My husband needs a make-under not a makeover," said Gail Matesevac. Matesevac's wild wardrobe will be replaced with $5,000 in new clothing he will choose with the help of "What Not To Wear" experts.

Matesevac's wife said her husband has been a good sport about the effort to tone down his wardrobe. "He will be one of their best customers. I just hope he comes home with one regular pair of jeans," she said. The PantaqraphDAVID PROEBER Catlin Slinker, an employee of Reigning Color tattoo shop, 129 E. Beufort Normal, dug out from Wednesday's storm Friday morning.

FROM Bl The clothing challenges were caught on secretly taped footage. Producers worked with the Bloomington women on a scheme to get Matesevac to Chicago, where a crew filmed the colorful dresser for a phony BBC show about Americans. Matesevac was let in on the plan to improve his wardrobe when the film crew returned to Illinois a second time and told him he had been selected for an episode that will air sometime out Central Illinois who have worked throughout the holiday period to restore power and answer calls for help. "It's been a team effort," he said. "It made for a bad holiday for a lot of people not just for the crews but for the people without power," Fox said.

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There are no cots or showers at the church. "We've got pews and pads," he said. Even the warming weather had a down side. Food left on the back porch Wednesday was safe until the temperatures rose. It spoiled and had to be thrown out.

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