the team has to drive personal vehicles across the country to compete in fishing tournaments because they also have to pull each individual’s boat to the event. Dr. Gill has expressed the difficulty many anglers have in competing because they have to personally fund the repairs to both their boats and the vehicles they use to pull them when there are issues, not to mention they have to provide gas money that isn’t covered by these fundraising events. This doesn’t even account for the thousands of miles anglers put on their engines each year traveling to tournaments in more than a dozen states. The fundraising event was met with community support; hopefully the Bass Warriors will be able to continue their success into this next season.
Bailey Campaign Makes Local Stop at WVC
The primaries for Illinois offices of various categories recently took place. In the last weeks leading up to the primaries, Gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey’s campaign team made a stop in Mount Carmel to give one final appeal to local voters. Bailey himself was in Northern Illinois campaigning, but his pick for Lieutenant Governor, Stephanie Trussell, attended the rally in Mount Carmel to garner support for the campaign. Mrs. Trussell boasted that the Bailey campaign team has visited every single county in Illinois TWICE since beginning on the campaign trail last year. A turnout of approximately 60 people came to WVC under the big tent to hear the campaign team’s pitch. They made such promises as budgetary reform, installation of Christian values, bolstering the 2nd amendment, pension restructure, and more. Most of the community in attendance seemed to support the Bailey campaign, but the rally was not without those who oppose the campaign. One woman in particular seemed to catch the team off-guard when she asked about state-police retirement pensions and what Bailey plans to do to allow retiring officers to keep their pensions. She produced a quote that seemingly implied Bailey proposes to severely diminish the money promised to officers in the
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