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A2 LOCAL THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 2012 DECATUR, ILLINOIS www.herald-review.com Winning numbers selected Wednesday in the Illinois State Lottery: Pick Three-Midday Pick Four-Midday 3-5-5 0-8-7-5 Pick Three-Evening Pick Four-Evening 3-2-2 0-7-1-0 Lucky Day Lotto 13-20-25-31-38 Lotto 05-06-07-10-37-52 Powerball 19-30-33-48-59 Powerball 27 Lotto jackpot $3.5 million Powerball jackpot $205 million Mega Millions jackpot $22 million i Lottery numbers online: www.herald-review.comlottery Events Etc. Annual WANDSenior CenterCHELPStarting Point Fan Drive. 9 a.m., Wal-Mart North, Decatur. Books Between Bites. 12:15 p.m., Decatur Public Library.

424-2900. Foundations in Personal Finance. 8 a.m., Richland Community College, Decatur. High school juniors and seniors. 422-8537.

Keyboarding Class. 9:30 a.m., Decatur Public Library Computer Lab. 424-2900. Macon County Fair. 8 a.m., Macon County Fairgrounds, Decatur, dairy cattle, Decatur Power Drillers, floriculture classes and Decatur Park Singers.

877-8941. National Cancer Survivors Day. 6 p.m., Decatur Conference Center Hotel. 876-4750. Quilted Keepsakes 2012.

10 a.m., DeWitt County Museum, Clinton. $3. 935-6066. StoryTime. 10 a.m., Mount Zion District Library.

Call to register. Ages 3 to 5. 864-3622. Exhibits Decatur Airport Gallery. Decatur Airport Featured artist is Delores Rice Logue.

Gallery 510. Gallery 510 Arts Guild, Decatur. Featured artist is Helen Hamilton, pastel portrait artist. 422-1509. Macon County History Museum and Prairie Village.

Macon County History Museum, Decatur. $2, ages 12 and under $1. 422-4919. Rock Springs Nature Center Galleries. Rock Springs Conservation Center, Decatur.

The World We Overlook," Alan Perry Photography Schaub Floral Display Center Summer Showcase. Schaub Floral Display Center, Decatur. Second Floor Gallery. Decatur Public Library. Heritage Network of Decatur and Macon County exhibit of local sites and attractions.

423-7000. Nightlife Bike Nite. 6 p.m., Elbow Room, Decatur. DJ David Lee. 10 p.m., Lock, Stock and Barrel, Decatur.

DJ Phil. 9 p.m., Sliderz, Decatur. Docta LD DJKaraoke. 9 p.m., Curly's Bar Pizza, Decatur. Howling Wolf Entertainment Tomorrow's highlight Chris Ballard: "One Shot at Forever." 7 p.m., Decatur Public Library Madden Auditorium.

Sports Illustrated senior writer. 424-2900. 6988. Wellness Clinic, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Coles County Public Health Department, Charleston.

$15. Fast required. Call for appointment. 234-2500 or 348-0530. WIC, special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children, 7:30 to 11:30 a.m.

and 12:30 to 5:30 p.m., Macon County Health Department, Decatur. Appointment required. 423-6988, ext. 1347 or 1303. Meetings Embroiderer's Guild of America Decatur Needle Arts Chapter.

6:30 p.m., Central Christian Church Room 206, Decatur. Thursday Noon Toastmasters. noon. Knights of Columbus 577, Decatur. 422-9520.

Seniors Decatur-Macon County Senior Center. 429-1239. Cards, 9 a.m. Support Groups Al-Anon. 10 a.m..

Central Christian Church Room 212, Decatur. 423-8214. Al-Anon. 8 p.m., Mount Zion Presbyterian Church. 423-8214.

Alcoholics Anonymous: Back to Basics. 8 a.m., 5:30 p.m., Central United Methodist Church, Decatur. Closed meeting with discussion. Handicapped accessible. 422-3766.

Alcoholics Anonymous: Get High on Life Group. 8 p.m., The AFFAS, Decatur. Open meeting with discussion. Non-smoking. 422-3766.

Alcoholics Anonymous: Good Morning Group. 10 a.m., St. Thomas Community Center, Decatur. Traditional meeting. 422-3766.

Alcoholics Anonymous: Sunlight Group. 7 a.m., First Presbyterian Church, Decatur. Closed meeting and handicapped accessible. 422-3766. Celebrate Recovery.

5:30 p.m., First Church of the Nazarene, Decatur. 875-0616. Stroke of Luck. 3 p.m., Decatur Memorial Hospital Rehab Conference Room. 876-2600.

Contact us Submissions of items for the Herald Review calendar must be in made in writing and received by noon Monday the week prior to publication. Mail items to Calendar, Herald Review, 601 E. William St, Decatur, IL 62523-1142 or email Phone calls will not be accepted. Center, Forsyth. 876-4249.

Family Birth Center Tour. 7 p.m., Decatur Memorial Hospital Kirkland Lobby. 876-3448. Jasper County Health Department Health Fair. 10 a.m., Jasper County Health Department, Newton.

347-1529. Pregnancy Center, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Macon County Health Depart-' ment, Decatur. 423-3794, ext. 1303.

Pregnancy Testing, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., New Life Pregnancy Center, Decatur. 872-5556. 24-hour helpline: 1-800-429-0464. Free.

Red Cross Blood Drive, noon, Decatur Blood Donation Center. 1-800-733-2767. Services for Peopf with Developmental Disabilities, Easter Seals Central Illinois, Decatur. To register, call 429-1052. Splish Splash Water Aerobics.

5:15 p.m., DMH Wellness Center, Forsyth. 876-4249. Walk-In STD Clinic. 1 p.m., Macon County Health Department, Decatur. 423-6988.

WellSick Child Clinic, 8:30 to 11:15 a.m., Macon County Health Department, Decatur. By appointment (must be low-income). 423- calendar every Thursday EVENTS: with DJ EmCee Squared. 7 p.m., Elbow Room Lounge, Decatur. Oldies Jukebox, noon.

Barb's Place, Decatur. Open Mic Night. 8 p.m., Rambo's Pub Grub, Argenta. Pool. noon.

Adam's Apple, Decatur. Health Art as Therapy. 8 a.m., Cancer Care Center Art Room 409, Decatur. Cancer patients and families. 876-4700.

Arthritis Foundation Exercise Class. 9 a.m., Lifespan Center, Charleston. Call to pre-register. $1 per class. 639-5150.

Breastfeeding Basics Class. 7 p.m., Decatur Memorial Hospital Classrooms. Registration required. 876-3448. Cholesterol Screening.

7 a.m., South Shores Imaging Center, Decatur. Fasting necessary for 10 to 12 hours. Prescription medication taken as usual with water. Cholesterol and glucose $20 and prostate blood draw $25. Call for appointment.

876-4377. Circuit Training Group Exercise Classes. 6:15 a.m., DMH Wellness His writings ranged from horror and mystery to humor and sympathetic stories about the Irish, blacks and Mexican-Americans. Bradbury also scripted John Huston's 1956 film version of "Moby Dick" and wrote for "The Twilight Zone" and other television programs, including "The Ray Bradbury Theater," for which he adapted dozens of his works. He rose to literary fame in 1950 with "The Martian Chronicles," a series of intertwined stories that satirized capitalism, racism and superpower tensions as it portrayed Earth colonizers destroying an idyllic Martian civilization.

His stories continue to be taught at high schools and universities. "Kids still read him. They still love him. People come and go, but he's one of those writers who continually engages young people. I think his legacy is going to last for a long time," said Luis J.

Rodriguez, author of "Always Running." He added that Bradbury's work helped 7 if V-Tv I ffL it LA Associated Press Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury looks at a picture in December 1966 that was part of a school project to illustrate characters in one of his dramas in Los Angeles. Bradbury, who wrote everything from science fiction and mystery to humor, died Tuesday in Southern California. He was 91 Plan your week with our BRADBURY Continued from A1 In many ways, he was always that 12-year-old boy who was inspired to become a writer after a chance meeting with a carnival magician called Mr. Electrico who, to Bradbury's delight, tapped him with his sword and said: "Live forever!" "I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard," Bradbury said later. "I started writing every day.

I never stopped." Many of his stories were fueled by the nightmares he suffered as a child growing up poor in the Midwest during the Great Depression. At the same time, they were tempered by the joy he found upon arriving with his family in glitzy Los Angeles in 1934. Decades later, he would still boast of hanging out at film studios and cajoling actors to sign autographs and pose for photos, even once getting 1930s movie queen Jean Harlow to kiss him on the cheek. PARADE Continued from A1 Ashley Steffan, 17, and Michael Ball, 19, stepped into the grandstand for the parade to eat their river fries in the shade "I wasn't really planning on coming," Steffan said, "but it was free, and it is cool to see the restored tractors; you only see those in parades." Malyah Boaz, 9, said she liked that each entry stopped in front of the crowd. "Usually parades are too fast," she said.

"I liked that they went slow enough to see everything." Kirby said fair board members had been considering resurrecting the parade for several years, but this year, they just decided to "go for it." "It's important to have a parade because it shows that the community supports the fair," she said. "And with every other event in town, there's a parade. We thought, 'Why not try it with the fair? According to Don Dipper, the fair used to have a MORE "What I have always been is a hybrid author," Bradbury explained in 2009. "I am completely in love with movies, and I am completely in love with theater, and I am completely in love with libraries." Much of Hollywood was also in love with him, and tributes from actors, directors and other celebrities poured in upon news of his death. "He was my muse for the better part of my sci-fi career," director Steven Spielberg said in a statement.

"He lives on through his legion of fans. In the world of science fiction and fantasy and imagination, he is immortal." Although he was slowed by a stroke in 1999 that forced him to use a wheelchair, Bradbury kept up socially and professionally. As he had done for decades, he continued to write every day, trying to produce at least 1,000 words, in the basement of his home in the Cheviot Hills section of Los Angeles and to make frequent visits to book fairs, libraries and schools. 'I liked that they went slow enough to see Malyah Boaz, 9 parade every year, but it was stopped in the early 1970s because of the expense. "As I recall, they stopped it because everyone wanted to be paid to be in the parade," Dipper said.

"In those days, we didn't have much money." Dipper, 83, was the Macon County Fair Board president from 1970-82. He said the parade was held downtown Thursday evening, with the fair starting Friday. He said he thinks bringing the parade back to the fair can only be a good thing. "Having a parade doesn't hurt anything at all," he said. "It gets people involved that ordinarily wouldn't, and it's something to have on TV or in the newspaper.

Any coverage you can get for the fair always helps." 421-7985 0 Li 1 tr fmul rm. -i inspire him to become a writer. Although involved in many futuristic projects, including the New York World's Fair of 1964 and the Spaceship Earth display at Walt Disney World in Florida, Bradbury was deeply attached to the past. He refused to drive a car and shunned flying, saying a fatal traffic accident he witnessed as a child left him with a lifelong fear of automobiles. In his younger years, he got around by bicycle or roller-skates.

Bradbury's literary style was honed in pulp magazines and influenced by Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe, and he became the rare science fiction writer treated seriously by the literary world. In 2007, he received a special Pulitzer Prize citation. Seven years earlier, he received an honorary National Book Award medal for lifetime achievement, an honor given to Philip Roth and Arthur Miller, among others. Other honors included an Academy Award nomination sion to destroy four German 105 mm artillery guns that threatened the Allied invasion force. During the ceremony, Wrorld War II-era military aircraft flew overhead, including a U.S.

artillery spotting plane just like those that would have darted through the skies on D-Day. Master Sgt. Frank Barnett, 37, a paratrooper from Annis-ton, serving at the U.S. Air Force base in Ramstein, Germany, attended the ceremony with other members of the 435th Air Ground Operations Wing. Barnett and 18 colleagues had made the trip ment, education and quality of life as possibilities to address, Nolan said.

The group wants to find ways to reverse such trends as declining population and decreasing property values, Nolan said. She urged business leaders to step up and lead the efforts to organize more focus group sessions in the coming weeks. Many focus groups are Associated Press The Colorado-made statue of Pennsylvania native Maj. Dick Winters was unveiled Wednesday near the beaches where the D-Day invasion of France began in 1944. It was one of many events marking the 68th anniversary of D-Day, the Allied operation that paved the way for the end of the war.

The bronze statue is a tribute to a man whose leadership was chronicled in the book and television series 'Band of Apollo astronauts named a crater "Dandelion Crater" in honor of "Dandelion Wrine," his beloved coming-of-age novel. the project and helped raise the $100,000 it cost. The statue "is not a monument to one man; it's a monument to many men and the leadership they showed on D-Day," Gray said. "All the divisions that fought on the beaches and hedgerows of Normandy on June 6, 1944." Tens of thousands of Allied and German forces were killed in the D-Day invasion and ensuing Battle of Normandy. Frenchman Reny Rossey, 86, recalled accompanying a British unit in the invasion as part of the effort to liberate his country from the Nazi occupation.

"Coming back home, for us, it was enormous. We had to do this job," he said at a ceremony Wednesday at a British cemetery in Ranville "My youth saved me. I was 17. I had no fear," he said. "You had to have audacity to join in something like that." French President Francois Hollande, paying tribute Wednesday to the soldiers who took part in the D-Day invasion, spoke of the European unity born from the horrors of World War II and is strained today by financial crisis and tensions over Muslim immigration.

"Normandy is covered with the tombs of children from all of Europe. All Europeans should be capable, 68 years later, of bringing Europe peace, solidarity and progress," he said. "Only the emergence of a common European conscience will protect us against the return of hate" Herald Review Postmaster Send address changes to: Herald Review, 601 E. William St, Decatur, IL 62523-114 Eight-week subscription rates are: Carrier home-delivered, motor-route, mail $54.64 (USPS 150-800). The Herald Review is published daily at 601 E.

William St by Lee Publishing, a subsidiary of Lee Enterprises. Periodical postage paid at Decatur, Illinois post office. for an animated film, "Icarus Montgolfier Wright," and an Emmy for his teleplay of "The Halloween Tree." His fame extended to the moon, where to Utah Beach to participate in a parachute jump over the same Normandy fields where Winters and his company landed on D-Day. The paratroopers, dressed in military fatigues, said they've all watched "Band of Brothers" "four or five times." "It's important for us on the airborne side to remember everything they did," Barnett said. "They are the Greatest Generation." The plan to erect the statue began 2 years ago, said Tim Gray, chairman of the Rhode Island-based World War II Foundation, which initiated already scheduled, but Nolan said more are needed.

Several initiatives already are under way trying to move Decatur in a positive direction, Nolan said. She said Grow Decatur's goal is to set forth a process to work together on a strategy for growth to transform Decatur into a robust community. D-DAY Continued from A1 excelled," said Suerth, who heads the association of former Easy Company vets, only 19 of whom survive. The statue was made in Loveland, and transported here, to a roadside between the village of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont and Utah Beach, distant but visible behind the statue. It was here that Winters and his small band of men dropped out of the sky soon after midnight on June 6, 1944, on a death-defying mis- INPUT Continued from A1 has to be strong, and that's going to be where the focus of our efforts are." The areas of focus moving forward have not yet been fully decided upon, but the group early in its process has identified economic develop- Herald 8.

ReviewMark Roberts Lizzie Shepard, 16, performs with the Royal Twirling Academy during the Macon County Fair Parade in Decatur, the fair used to have a parade every year, but it was stopped in the early 1970s because of the expense..