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The squad for next years Pinckneyville Community HIgh School Dance Team has been selected. Sixteen girls will represent PCHS in the upcoming football, basketball and homecoming performances in addition to competitions in the Spring Semester. The PCHS Squad has taken 2nd Place Class A Kick awards for the past three years at I.D.T.A. State. The squad is coached by Rhonda Hicks and Stephen Cannedy with assistants from Tawmi Conley and Ashley Hicks.

Seniors - (Front Row) - Jordan Franklin, Macie Clark, Hayley Haggard, Taylor Bigham
Juniors - (2nd Row) - Deanne Brand, Sarah Carlson, Phoebe Smith
Sophomores - (3rd Row) - Callie Priebe, Bailey Nippe, Madison Coleman, Katie Kovic, Jordyn Weiland, Laci Zeidler
Freshmen - (4th Row) - Taryn Pabst, Kaitlyn Sweeney, Ashley Maxey

KICKING IT ON THE SOCCER FIELD

Youth of all ages and both genders enjoy friendly competition and sportsmanship every Saturday in the spring and fall. Hats off to the organizers and participants for creating a fun atmosphere that leaves the petty politics and cutthroat tactics out of the game. (click on the image to view the photo gallery).

WHAT A CATCH: 280,000 GOLF BALLS

BY JEFF SMYTH

The duffer’s creed is to never fall in love with a golf ball because it will always leave you. Pat Lamb can attest to that; hundreds of thousands of times over.

Lamb is a retired Vienna businessman whose “hobby” is to scour the pond and lake bottoms of 31 golf courses throughout southern Illinois, southeastern Missouri and western Kentucky retrieving AWOL golf balls. To say the waters are ripe for the picking is an understatement. The number of balls Lamb hauls in would put dimples on the faces of the most seasoned “Deadliest Catch” crabbers.

FIELDS AFIRE

March is burn month at Pyramid State Park. An IDNR crew has been battling wet weather but hopes to have as much as 1,200 acres of grassland torched before April 1 when migrating birds start appearing. The burns help remove invasive species such as phramite (elephant grass) allowing native grasses like short and long bluestems to flourish. A team of four led by park supervisor Cha Hill were burning west of Super Lake on Tuesday. Pictured is Mike Brand drizzling a mixture of diesel and gas on the dry grass.

WE SALUTE YOU

PREPARING A HERO'S FAREWELL

Volunteers including Jacob Crews (shown) lined the route from town to the rural cemetery where Will Templeton will be laid to rest. (click on the image to view more pictures the people who are helping to honor a young man in the proper way)

POMS MEET CHALLENGE, TAKE SECOND AT STATE; CANNEDY HONORED

The Pinckneyville pom-pon team won second place in Class A Kick at the state competition in Champaign Saturday. Steve Cannedy was also honored for his 28 years of commitment to the poms including serving as member of the board of the Illinois Drill Team Association. (click on the image to view the picture gallery)

MOURNING IN PINCKNEYVILLE

American flags line the streets and others are at half staff in memory of Will Templeton who died this week. Will, 22, fought in Iraq as an Army specialist but passed away after returning to the states. Details of his funeral are pending. The Post is compiling a tribute to this young man. Please share your memories of him below.