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A2 LOCAL SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2014 DECATUR, ILLINOIS www.herald-review.com Pick Three-Midday 6-0-3, Fireball: 8 Pick Three-Evening 9-3-5, Fireball: 0 Pick Four-Midday 3-7-3-0, Fireball: 6 Pick Four-Evening 2-5-4-8, Fireball: 0 LuckyDay Lotto Midday 02-04-23-32-40 Lucky Day Lotto 04-07-16-25-44 Powerball jackpot $90 million Lotto jackpot $10.5 million Mega Millions 08-26-29-36-47 Mega Ball: 10 Megaplier: 3 Mega Millions jackpot $61 million Winning numbers selected Friday: www.herald-review.com/lottery Dancing Country Cookin Band, 7 p.m., Pla-Mor Danceland, Pana. $7. (618) 283-1314. Etc. Annual Heritage Holly Historic Home Tour, noon, First Presbyterian Church, Decatur.

$15 in advance, $18 day of event. (217) 412-7170. Christmas Trees at Dr. House, 1 p.m., Dr. Charles M.

Wright House Museum, Altamont. Adults $6, students $1. Locals of by Huey Freeman Book Signing, 2 p.m., Wildflour Artisan Bakery Decatur. (843) 853-2070. Festival of Trees, 10 a.m., Illinois State Fairground Orr Building, Springfield.

$5 adults, $3 ages 3 to 12. (217) 788-4700. Preschool Peepers: Turkeys, 10 a.m., Rock Springs Conservation Area, Decatur. Ages 3 to 5. Registration required.

(217) 423-7708. Snow Globe Saturdays, 7 p.m., Orpheum Science Museum, Champaign. $5, free for museum members. (217) 352-5895. Starlight Candlelight Tours, 5 p.m., DeWitt County Museum, Clinton.

$3. (217) 935-6066. Terry Walters Book Signing, 1 p.m., Book World, Forsyth. (405) 458-5642. Exhibits Chevrolet Hall of Fame Museum, Decatur.

$7 adults, ages 12 and under free. (217) 791-5793. Decatur Airport Gallery. Jim Clark, colored pencil. Gallery 510 Arts Guild, Decatur.

Joyce Matteson retrospective. (217) 422-1509. Macon County History Museum and Prairie Village, Decatur. $2. (217) 422-4919.

Rock Springs Nature Center Galleries, North Gallery: Barn Colony Artists, paintings and South Gallery: Delores Rice Logue. (217) 423-7708. Upstairs Gallery, Decatur Public Library. Sue Watts, watercolors. Nightlife Bad Medicine, 8 p.m., Time Inn, Decatur.

Big Daddy DJ and Karaoke, 9 p.m., Flashbacks, Decatur. Champaign Freight, 9 p.m., Bottoms Up, Decatur. DJ, 9 p.m., Timbuktu Saloon, Decatur. Docta LD 9 p.m., Bar, Decatur. Jonny Vodka, 9 p.m., Sliderz, Decatur.

Kevin Hart the Vibe Tribe, 3:30 p.m., Lock, Stock Barrel, Decatur. Kim Rambo DJ, 9 p.m., Friendly Bar Grill, Decatur. Plan 4 p.m., Sliderz, Decatur. Renegade, 9 p.m., Wild Dog Saloon, Decatur. (217) 791-6797.

Right on DJ, 9 p.m., Timbuktu Saloon, Decatur. Zooloo, 9 p.m., AIW Hall, Decatur. On Stage Main Hangar Comedy with Justin Leon and Mike Baldwin, 8:30 p.m., Main Hangar Restaurant, Decatur. $10. (217) 421-7452.

Old-Fashioned 6 p.m., Barn II Dinner Theater, Goodfield. $37. (309) 965-2545. Support Groups Alcoholics Anonymous: Back to Basics, 8 a.m., Central United Methodist Church, Decatur. (217) 413-7454.

Alcoholics Anonymous: Road to Recovery, noon, St. Episcopal Church, Decatur. (217) 422-3766. Alcoholics Anonymous: Serenity Seekers, 9 a.m., The AFFAS, Decatur. (217) 422-3766.

Alcoholics Anonymous: Sobriety at Six, 6 p.m., First United Methodist Church, Decatur. (217) 422-3766. Overeaters Anonymous, 10:30 a.m., St. Hospital Room 561, Decatur. (217) 972-2219.

HAPPENING TODAY Plan your week with our calendar every Thursday MORE EVENTS: www.herald-review.com Contact us Submissions of items for the Herald Review calendar must be made in writing and received by noon Monday the week prior to publication. Mail items to Calendar, Herald Review, 601 E. William Decatur, IL 62523-1142 or email Phone calls will not be accepted. SHOPPING Continued from A1 she said. By the time the women got to they were both tired and unwilling to wait in the long lines, so Chaney returned there Friday, but Martinek stayed home with a cold she said had been coming on for a couple of days.

done for she said. wait for Cyber Monday deals, but it was a good year. I had fun. I always Cathy Sidener, her niece Aireanna Blackburn and other family members made a family outing of Black Friday shopping. we make a Aireanna said.

Sidener said she just looks at the ads to decide where to go and what to get and, in spite of significant crowds at and the wait in checkout lines bad. waited 10 minutes (at she said. were a lot longer lines, so maybe we just got Marathon Black Friday shopper Zelda Sears logged 12 hours and 18 minutes on the hunt for Christmas bargains for her five grandchildren, beginning at 4:30 p.m. Thanksgiving Day. make a list of things I definitely want and get those said Sears, who lives in Effingham and did her shopping there.

As of mid-morning Friday, been to and Walmart twice each, Kmart and where they ran out of carts. She and her daughter stopped at Starbucks to fuel up and each took two names off the angel tree. what doing she said. buying Christmas for Sears said she saves for Christmas shopping all year and, as tired as she was, it was worth it to spoil her having a she said. look forward to this all (217) 421-7982 STATES Continued from A1 In Nevada, officials are drawing up a bill for the legislature making clear that unauthorized immigrants can become teachers in the state.

Current rules specify that a prospective teacher must be a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident before they can receive a teaching license in Nevada. A new gubernatorial administration in Arizona will have to decide whether to continue a hard-line approach toward state benefits that outgoing Gov. Jan Brewer took. After Obama took action in 2012 granting legal status to 1.8 million young people brought to the U.S.

as children, Brewer issued an executive order denying them licenses or other state benefits, including in-state tuition at the public universities. A federal appeals court ruled the license ban was unconstitutional, and Brewer is considering an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. position is unilateral action by the president does nothing to change the fact that an illegal presence is the United States is not authorized under federal Brewer spokesman Andrew Wilder said. Republican elect, Doug Ducey, has said he intends to continue current ban, if it survives court challenges.

Democratic governor, Martin has taken a decidedly different tack. a supporter of state laws granting in-state tuition to people without legal status and grants them licenses. He has even been willing to get into a policy fight with Obama on the stream of unaccompanied immigrant children from Central America over the Mexican border, criticizing the White House proposal earlier this year that could have expedited the deportation of the children. Arizona remains an outlier in its treatment of immigrants granted work permits and is among the most harsh when it comes to those who remain in the U.S. without legal authorization.

States surrounding Arizona provide in-state tuition to all residents, regardless of immigration status. And in January, California joins nine other states in allowing immigrants who prove in the U.S legally to get a license. Despite the fact that life would be easier if he left the state, Avila said staying put. is where we got dirty as kids, this is where we learn how to speak English, this is where we learn how to do a lot of he said. in Arizona is where my friends, my family, live and I see it as an option to run away, but rather stand up and change the conditions that we live Highlight Snowflake Social, 5 p.m., Stewardson Community Building.

Freewill donations. GAMING Continued from A1 The intent was to legalize and regulate a business already operating illegally in many bars and social clubs. Under the law, the key requirement is a liquor license, with each license-holder eligible for three to five machines. liquor distinction was something we put in there to keep some control over the amount (of Lang said. As of October, there were 18,669 terminals scattered across 4,570 businesses, according to the Gaming Board, with several hundred being added every month.

Among them are a scuba shop and laundromat in Winnebago Loves Park, a florist in Oak Lawn outside Chicago and a Champaign apartment complex, among others. Blackhawk Restaurant Group is one of several companies that have opened chains of storefront gambling businesses that also sell food and drinks. They operate under names like Bistro, and and promote their demographic and A company official declined to talk, but according to its website, Blackhawk has 43 locations in the Chicago suburbs and nine others open or planned in the Champaign area, Peoria and elsewhere. Four of the Blackhawk outlets are in Elk Grove Village, northwest of Chicago, where Mayor Craig Johnson said they are the leading revenue generators among the 16 businesses with video gambling terminals. gear their businesses toward women between the ages of 35 and 65, and they tell you Johnson said.

The suburb has set up hurdles to other operations that officials feared would become requiring food service and setting a minimum business size. be like a 500 square-foot storefront and a guy would hand you a can of the mayor said. Elected officials in other towns are becoming uneasy about video growth. Peoria enacted a temporary moratorium on new gambling locations over concerns that some may offer little but gambling. The Peoria City Council recently rejected several measures that would have permanently restricted further expansion, but Councilwoman Beth Akeson hopes for some kind of limit.

have what we have, but I would not like to see any she said. The casino industry also is concerned that the growth of video gambling generating new gamblers but turning the customers into their own. A report by the state Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability found that in the fiscal year that ended in June, eight of the 10 casinos had revenue drops of at least 9 percent. It concluded that new gambling businesses were siphoning off casino customers. our revenues and admissions are dropping because of video gaming parlors, the taxes paying are going to start said Tom Swoik, the Illinois Casino Gaming executive director.

Herald Review, Jim Bowling Ken Wollie, foreground, of Forsyth waits to make a purchase in a line extending through the girls clothing area of the store in Hickory Point Mall. Associated Press Michael Vena, owner of Arabian Knights Farms and Training Center, along with his dog Valor, sits in the gaming room in Willowbrook. ROB STROUD Lee News Service Writer MATTOON Black Friday shopping got an early start Thursday evening, on Thanksgiving, for many area bargain hunters. Brittany Goeckner said she and her mother, Carla, both of Effingham County, reluctantly decided to start their shopping at 6 p.m. Thursday after reviewing sales listings in the newspaper and online, as well as hearing about sales via word of mouth.

like it, but if you want the deals, you have got to Carla Goeckner said of shopping Thanksgiving evening. The two said they started their gift buying Thursday night at the Effingham Walmart and then headed out at 5 a.m. Friday to get to the Mattoon Walmart and the Cross County Mall in time for special sales there. Goeckner said she was happy to get a tote bag and stock up on on-sale hand lotion at the Bath Body Works store. Carla Goeckner said the rush of shoppers at 6 a.m.

was but they ultimately enjoy spending time together shopping on Black Friday. Their itinerary included heading north to stores in Champaign after lunch. Chelsee McMahan said she and her mother, Kim Strader, both of Sullivan, reviewed sales fliers in the newspaper before setting out Thanksgiving night for Tanger Outlets, with the Coach handbag store topping their visit list. Strader said Friday morning that she the appreciated the overnight break between sales, but felt guilty about shopping on this holiday. is for families.

I think you should have to work on Strader said. Friday morning in Mattoon, they shopped at PetSmart for pet toy and treat stockings. Strader laughed, explaining that, pets are They then went to Home Depot before going to the Cross County Mall. Their plans also included lunch at a local restaurant. Vicki McGee of Effingham and Jean Walker of Strasburg said they did not start their annual Black Friday shopping until later in the morning on Thanksgiving.

Walker joked that she takes a relaxed approach to this big shopping day and lets McGee do all the research on bargains. McGee said she was not too worried about missing the special sales at 6 a.m. I find it, I need McGee said, adding that they are more interested in lunch Friday. biggest thing is going out to Mariellen Taylor of Greenup and her extended family did not arrive at the Cross County Mall until mid-morning Friday. As her 12-year-old son, Logan Edwards, took a quick rest on a coach at an antiques kiosk, Taylor explained that they made the decision to start shopping later in the day.

we avoided the Taylor said. always get the good deals, but we get enough, so worth 238-6861 For some, shopping begins on Thursday.