RAINBOW COALITION
Of the 143 Illinois Republican delegates who attended the national convention in New York City this week, more than 82 percent were white. The state’s minority delegates included 14 Hispanics, six African Americans, and five Asians.
Mary Mitchell of the Chicago Sun-Times pointed this out in her column on Tuesday, which featured Candice Trees, an African-American delegate and Springfield resident.
In the article, Trees acknowledged the scarcity of blacks in the GOP but added that the Democratic Party doesn’t do much better. “They paraded a lot of minorities during their convention,” Trees said. “But I’m not sure there’s much difference between the two parties.”
9/11 POEMS SOUGHT
To mark the third anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, the Lincoln
Library will open at midnight Saturday, Sept. 11, and remain open for 24 hours.
At 5 p.m., poets are invited to come to the library for a reading of works with
a 9/11-related theme. A chapbook will be prepared for the program. To include
a poem in the book, e-mail it to Corrine Frisch at cfrisch@illinoistimes.com.
A complete schedule of events is available at www.lincolnlibrary.info.
TWICE AS NICE
The editors of the State Journal-Register apparently liked Nick Rogers’ report on cell phone ring tones enough to reprint it. The original 1,123-word report first appeared July 29; the story resurfaced Wednesday in “Springfield’s Business News,” an SJ-R ad section.
GOLDEN ARCHER
Olympic archer Vic Wunderle won the silver and the bronze in Sydney
in 2000. He’d hoped to bring home the gold from Athens but missed by one point
to the eventual individual gold-medal winner, Marco Galliazo of Italy. For organizers
of the “Meet Vic” rally in Mason City, Wunderle still is considered a winner.
They’ve invited the hometown Olympian to participate in a question-and-answer
session and sign autographs at the Arlee Theater, 139 S. Main St., in Mason
City. The event starts at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 4.
This article appears in Sep 2-8, 2004.
