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StoryA8 4 Red Cross has ever responded to," said John Dickey, public support director for the Mid-Illinois chapter. Besides the 911 terrorist attacks, it's tea Red Cross, Illinois Power aid in hurricane clean up By MIKE FRAZ1ER Staff Writer DECATUR Ralph Wine just returned from a three-week visit to the Sunshine State But the 83-year-old Decatur man wasn't there on any leisurely vacation. He spent long days rumbling around in an emergency response vehicle filled with hot meals for those recovering from the wrath of Hurricane Charley. "I used to camp out a lot, so it's no big deal," Wine said. "It's just what I like to do.

Sure, you've got a few hard spots, but life's got a few hard spots, anyway." Wine joins nearly a dozen Mid-Illinois Look for today's money! For more information see www.herald-review.commegamillionaire Another little orphan Annie 1 the biggest disaster relief effort in the history of the Red Cross, Dickey said. About 40 Illinois Power Co. employees from across the state left for Florida last Saturday to help restore power knocked out by Hurricane CLEANUPA2 Associated Press Katrina Henry, left, and Angela Tomlinson salvage everything they can Friday from a bedroom while standing in waist deep floodwaters in Tomlinson 's home in Trenton, as they clean up from Hurricane Frances. Annie is a loving cat, but you have to watch where you touch her. Hairless areas ranging from pink to bright red dot the sides and chest of her tan coat as she recuperates from what 911 ANNIVERSARY 'I can still see the smoke.

I can see the people. It doesn't go away. I relive everything that happened that Katie Helton, Shelbyville, college student in Brooklyn on Sept 11, 2001 appear to be chemical burns. The injured stray is healing and will soon be in need of a home with a loving owner. Local A3 Oakland puts its faith in The Hub There are stop signs and barricade signs hanging on the newly painted walls at The i Hub in Oakland, but I other signs indicate PVf all is full-speed 'Clinton syndrome sweeps nation President's bypass has men checking By MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Medical Writer Hospitals around the country are seeing an epidemic of "Clinton syndrome," as worried, middle-aged men take the former president's heart problems to heart and rush to get their own tickers checked.

Some, like Gary Haden, are scared enough vw; 1 ahead. Organizers lj center have high 1 hopes for the former church, which they hope will be a gathering spot for teens to listen to music, shoot pool or just hang out. Life D1 is Short-timer in the mouse house Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Michael Eisner unexpectly to pay $400 out of their own pockets for a heart scan at a private center i i offered his resignation, saying he will step down when his contract expires on Sept. 30, 2006.

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recalled Helton, who had just begun her sophomore year. "When the towers fell, I saw the first one going." As Americans adjust to the realities of a post-911 nation, several people reflected on how their lives were dramatically affected by the attacks. Helton said whenever she sees articles or news clips about 911, MEMORIES A2 the World Trade Center," recalls Helton, 22, who is living at home in Shelbyville after graduating from Long Island University in Brooklyn. After receiving the grim news on that September morning three years ago, Helton called home to tell her family she was fine. Then she heard a second plane hit the other tower.

"You could see the buildings from our dorm building," By HUEY FREEMAN A Staff Writer lmost everybody remembers where they were when they heard planes had crashed into the World Trade Center. Katie Helton was in a college Spanish class in Brooklyn, just across the East River from lower Manhattan, on 911. "They came in and told us to go back to our dorms. A plane hit Your weather 0 ii 0 "I had not planned to do it, but I had all the symptoms he had, and he was doing all the things I was doing," such as eating lots of fast food, the 56-year-old truck driver from Elk Grove said of Bill Clinton. Chest pains a month ago had frightened Haden into quitting his 40-year smoking habit.

Clinton's Labor Day quadruple bypass prompted Haden to seek the scan, which revealed only mild blockage in one artery. He went to one of 10 centers around the country operated by HeartCheck America Inc. Requests for appointments tripled at many of them this past week, especially in Chicago and Washington, said company president Bruce Friedman. Tuesday "was the busiest day we've had for scheduling new appointments since the death of Daryl Kile. Before that it was John Candy, and before that it was Sergei Grinkov," he said.

The "celebrity effect" also boosted emergency room visits. At St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, eight or nine people came in with chest pains each day this past week, compared with the usual five, said Dr. Patricia Carey, director of emergency medicine "I asked the triage nurse, 'What's wrong with this patient who just She said, 'Clinton syndrome' It's a way of saying it's a middle-aged man with chest pains who's really worried," Carey said. Doctors, too, seem to be behaving differently.

At UMass Memorial Medical Center in central Massachusetts, five cardiac catheterization rooms stayed open extra hours to do angiograms $5,000 tests that are the gold standard for checking arteries for blockages. Some doctors sent patients directly for angiograms without doing the usual treadmill stress tests first. Ground zero memorial set Today: Mostly sunny and warm Tonight: Mostly clear and cool DetailsB8 Index Classifieds CI -12 Comics D5 Dear Abby D2 Horoscopes D5 Life D1-8 Money A11 tl Ac i hVv t.i I Movies D2 Obituaries D3 Opinion A5 Puzzles Sports B1-7 Television D6 50 cents Our 132nd year Issue 255 Four sections 9:03, 9:59 and 10:29 a.m. to mark when the second plane struck and each tower collapsed. The day of remembrance will end with twin beams of light soaring into the night sky.

At the Pentagon, officials will lay a wreath and observe a moment of silence. And in Pennsylvania, bells will toll across the state at the minute the fourth plane went down. Nationwide, communities will observe 911 in their own ways, with services at firehouses, memorial dedications, the tolling of bells and flag ceremonies. In Springfield, a garden will be dedicated to 911 victims, and in New Mexico, residents plan to gather at an Albuquerque church where two trade center beams are on display. SERVICESA2 Parents, grandparents to read names of trade center victims NEW YORK (AP) Last year, children's voices echoed across ground zero.

This year, it is the bereaved parents and grandparents of World Trade Center victims who will read aloud the names of those lost on 911. Three years to the minute that terrorists flew the first plane into the twin towers, a moment of silence will be held at 8:46 a.m. today to begin the ceremony at ground zero. Then, in what has become an anniversary tradition, the names of the 2,749 trade center victims will be recited, with pauses for three more moments of silence at '02138 "00001 'fcl Associated Press Volunteers complete the raising of 3,031 American flags for a 911 memorial service Friday at Andrew's Park in Vacaville, Calif. Dozens gathered at the park to help assemble the 'Healing honoring those who died in the 911 attacks.

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