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HE OUTHERN I LLINOISAN RIDAY UGUST 21,2009 5B TATE www.thesouthern.com GIANT FLEA MARKET SUNDAY AUGUST23 RD PAVILION MARION, IL $1.50 admission John Crouch 217-529-6939 www.jcflea.com MIKE RICHARDSON 618-529-2365 466 SAN DIEGO CARBONDALE WWW.COACHHOUSEGARAGES.COM We will complete project before you make full payment. Insurance work is welcome. Call Mike today. 35 years experience Founded 1974 21,000 customers A name you know Experience in insurance work Qualified Bonded Insured Tear down removal service We are here to EATS 6 A DULTS WITH OUNGER 66 ETS LECTRONIC ONTROL YSTEM EATED LTRA -P URE ZONE YSTEM 24 OUR RYSTAL -C LEAR ILTRATION YSTEM ATERFALL ELUXE ARD OVER WITH HILD ROOF AFTEY OCKS 3 SHOCKS STRUTS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ALSIP The remaining workers at a historic suburban Chicago cemetery where former employees are accused of digging up graves to resell plots were laid off late last confirmed Thursday. Roman appointed receiver of Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, said he has not received any of the money he has asked for to operate the cemetery.

Burr assets were frozen after four people were charged in the alleged grave-reselling scheme that authorities say stretched back at least five years and netted about remaining employees six grounds workers and two office workers were laid off today. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart closed the cemetery in July after declaring it a crime scene.The 150-acre graveyard remains closed to the pub- lic.Szabelski has pushed back the reopening until all graves are properly marked and cleaned up. just a whole series of steps that have to be told the Southtown Star for a story published Thursday. just a process taking Szabelski did not immediately return phone calls from The Associated Press on Thursday.Officials at Catholic Cemeteries, where Szabelski is executive the layoffs. Burr Oak is where civil rights-era lynching victim Emmett singer Dinah Washington and other prominent African- Americans are buried.

Phone calls to Burr Oak Cemetery and the Perpetua unanswered Thursday and neither number would accept voicemails. Perpetua President Melvin Bryant has called the allegations Three of those charged in the scheme were Carolyn and Terrence all of Chicago remain in custody. Maurice out on bail. They each have been charged with dismembering a human body. Towns is being represented by a private to the Cook County did not have the name.The other three are being represented by public defenders.

A message left Thursday for the Cook County public office was not immediately returned. Burr Oak lays off remaining staff just a whole series of steps that have to be taken.It’s just a process taking OMAN ZABELSKI A PPOINTEDRECEIVEROF URR AK EMETERY AP Vice President Joe Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (left) and Dr.David Coordinator for Health Information Technology at Health and Human in a roundtable discussion with health care professionals on health insurance reform Thursday at Mt.Sinai Hospital in Chicago. BYCARLAK.JOHNSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday the nation has never been closer to substantial health care overhaul despite the shouting and all the political recent weeks. Biden said restraining costs and insuring more people should unite fiscal conservatives and advocates for the poor behind the Obama efforts to fix what Biden called a broken system. If he wanted to hear about troubles in health and Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius came to the right place.They got an earful from doctors and nurses attending a round-table discussion at a struggling nonprofit hospital serving the urban poor on West Side.

A nurse said she worries about violent emergency room patients who throw bedpans and spit at her.A doctor from another hospital said she refer patients to dietitians to prevent diabetes because insurance pay for it. And a health researcher said black Chicagoans die needlessly because they are disadvantaged and uninsured. Biden announced nearly $1.2 billion in grants to help the hospitals and doctors put electronic health records to use.The grants will be funded by the $787 billion economic stimulus plan. Storing patient data electronically can improve efficiency and prevent medical said, adding tired of being handed paper forms to fill out every time he goes to the doctor. get handed one more clipboard I feel like clanging somebody on the said, prompting laughter from about 60 health care professionals in the audience.

many times do I have to fill had had two Biden sidestepped the question of whether a public insurance option should be part of a final health care bill.He made only passing reference to foes challenged supporters of overhaul with charges of a government takeover. all the shouting and all the political turmoil on this think ever been closer to being able to do something improve health said. President Barack Obama has made expanding insurance coverage and restraining health care costs his top domestic pri- ority.But lost ground on the issue in opinion polls and Democrats in Congress are preparing to go it alone on legislation although bipartisan talks continue in the Senate. event took place not at a flourishing medical center but at Mount Sinai Hospital, where only 7 percent of the patients have private insurance. The rest are covered by government programs or are uninsured.In August, the hospital had only 1.42 days of cash on leaders said.Its bad bills left unpaid by $62.3 million last year.

Biden promises health care reform, medical record grants Tornados confirmed in central Illinois THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WILLIAMSVILLE Among the tons of debris volunteers in Williamsville hauled off by the truckload Thursday after a tornado were remains of one of just two churches in the central Illinois village its roof and walls its steeple still standing. church has been a cornerstone of the Tom president in community of about 1,500 located roughly 10 miles northeast of gone. At least two tornados struck central Illinois Wednesday afternoon, with Williamsville hit the Weather Service meteorologist Ed Shimon said; some 25 village buildings were damaged and there were around a dozen injuries, though none life-threatening. Another confirmed tornado struck in southwest of the state homes and injuring several people in one of the most destructive storms to sweep across the heart of Illinois so far this said. One of 12 injured people brought to St.John’s Hospital in Springfield had been in a car flipped by a powerful another person had been blown off his coordinator Roscoe Cook said.

mile-an- hour tree limbs flying all over the place it was one heck of Leigh spokesman for the Ameren utility that provides electricity to central Illinois. In the immediate aftermath of the Ameren customers were without only around 2,000 still had no electricity as of Thursday afternoon, Morris said.He expected all power to be restored by today at the latest. Around ten of the buildings damaged in Williamsville were beyond repair and will likely have to be the remnants of what was a brick church constructed in the early half of last Yokley. tornado, the first to strike Williamsville since the early have caused up to $5 million in estimated. Many residents are in Yokley said spirits have been lifted by the hundreds of volunteers who showed up to help in the clean up on Thursday.

are pretty tough, resilient said. want to make them mad at you.But if you need could- ask for anyone AP Margie McVickers and her their way through the remains of Williamsville Christian Church on Wednesday in Williamsville.McVickers and her weathered the storm in the basement of her suffered moderate damage..

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