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A2 LOCAL SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2012 DECATUR, ILLINOIS www.herald-review.com Winning numbers selected Friday in the Illinois State Lottery: Lottery numbers online: My 3 Evening Pick Three-Midday Pick Four-Midday 4-3-7 7-3-8 6-3-0-3 My 3 Midday Pick Three-Evening Pick Four-Evening 4-0-9 2-3-1 3-9-7-4 Lucky Day Lotto 06-09-19-29-34 Mega Millions 08-37-44-47-48 Mega Ball 27 Lotto jackpot $4.75 million Powerball jackpot $325 million Mega Millions jackpot $41 million WW hkmMm Events Etc. "Civil War Saturdays" Meet a Boy in Blue: The Campaigns Against Vicksburg in Late 1862 to early 1863, 11 a.m., Old State Capitol State Historic Site, Springfield. "Mr. Lincoln's Christmas Tree" Heritage Holly Home Tour 2012, noon, First Presbyterian Church, Decatur. Tour seven homes and First Presbyterian Church and Lincoln Square Theater.

$18. 433-0611. Bloomington Central Catholic Holiday Craft and Vendor Show, 9 a.m., Bloomington Central Catholic High School. (309) 661-7000. Christmas Trees at Dr.

Wright's House Fundraiser, 1 p.m., Dr. Tomorrow's highlight Old Fashioned Christmas i Celebration, 1 p.m., Helen Matthes Library, Effingham. 342- i 4147. Charles M. Wright House, Altamont.

Holiday Craft Fair, 9 a.m., Mount Zion Wildwood Center. Images of Christmas, 5 p.m., C.H. Moore Homestead, Clinton. $3. 935-6066.

Super Saturday Recess, 10 a.m., Decatur Indoor Sports Center. Ages 4 to 11. $3.50. 429-3472. Turkey Trot Hike, 2 p.m., Rock Springs Conservation Area, Decatur.

423-7708. Wonderland in Lights, 5 p.m., can Legion Post 105, Decatur. Docta LD DJKaraoke, 9 p.m., Curly's Bar Pizza, Decatur. Escaping Neverland, 9 p.m., AIW Hall, Decatur. Free Oldies Jukebox, noon, Barb's Place, Decatur.

Kidd Cadillac, 4 p.m., Sliderz, Decatur. The Goetter Brothers, 9:30 p.m., Donnie's Homespun Pizza, Decatur. Thin Ice, 8 p.m., Guitars Cadillacs, Springfield. Thousand Yard Stare and .08, 9 p.m., Woody's Bar, Decatur. On Stage "Home for the Holidays," 6 p.m., Conklin's Barn II Dinner Theatre, Goodfield.

$38. (309) 965-2545. Health Red Cross Blood Drive, 10 a.m., Hickory Point Mall, Forsyth. Support Groups Alcoholics Anonymous: Road to Recovery, noon, St. John's Episcopal Church, Decatur.

Open discussion meeting. 422-3766. Alcoholics Anonymous: Serenity Seekers, 9 a.m., The AFFAS, Decatur. Open meeting with book study and discussion. Handicapped accessible.

422-3766. Alcoholics Anonymous: Sobriety at Six, 6 p.m., First United Methodist Church, Decatur. Closed meeting with discussion. Nonsmoking. 422-3766.

Overeaters Anonymous, 10:30 a.m., St. Mary's Hospital Room 561, Decatur. 875-1626. 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 Decatur, IL 62523-1142 or email Phone calls will not be accepted. Community Park, Effingham. 1-800-772-0750. Exhibits Decatur Airport Gallery, Decatur Airport. Mary Cleave exhibit.

Fayette County Museum, Fayette County Museum, Vandalia. (618) 283-4866. Gallery 510, Gallery 510 Arts Guild, Decatur. Diana Manning exhibit. 422-1509.

Rock Springs Art Galleries, Rock Springs Conservation District, Decatur. Barn Colony artists. 423-7708. Second Floor Gallery, Decatur Public Library. Macon County 4-H exhibit.

Music Dale Wines Opry, 7 p.m., Ole Findlay Church. 756-8852. Dulcimer Club, 10 a.m.. Rock Springs Conservation Area, Decatur. 423-7708.

Nightlife 48 Connection, 8 p.m., Rusty Spur, Decatur. Bags, Pool, and Shuffleboard Tournaments, 1 p.m., and Kim Rambo DJKaraoke, 8 p.m., Rambo's Pub Grub, Argenta. Clayton Anderson, 9 p.m., Timbuktu Saloon, Decatur. Dixie Daredevils, 3:30 p.m., Lock Stock Barrel, Decatur. DJ Calio 9:30 p.m., Elbow Room, Decatur.

DJ Jeff Karaoke, 7 p.m., Ameri Plan your week with our calendar every Thursday vww.nersIa-revsew.coia FRIDAY "We've been to our car three times already (to unload purchases)," said Walker, a Decatur-area resident. She added that the group began shopping at 4 a.m. Friday morning, with the exception of Ashley. "I shopped from 7:30 p.m. Thursday to 1 a.m.

Friday," said Piraino. "Then I got back up around 3:30 a.m." Walker said the women enjoy the tradition of shopping together. "We've been doing this for years," she said. "The good deals bring us out, and it's really about the fun of getting up and going out with no men or babies. Everyone is in a good mood." Amber Westerson, group marketing director for Hickory Point Mall, reported that the mall had a strong start to the holiday season.

"So far, everything has been great," she said. "There was a strong showing at midnight, and J.C. Penney and Kohl's had long lines. Overall, it's been a great day." The parking lots of stores that opened Thursday night may not have been quite as packed 24 hours later, but they were full enough to suggest that business remained brisk, at least through early evening Friday. Unwilling to face the crowds at Target when she was out shopping with her sister-in-law from 10 p.m.

Thursday to 3 a.m. Friday, Shavonda Comage of Decatur came back late Friday afternoon to take advantage of a sale in the toy department. "There's a lot less people now," she said. Kyle and Rebecca Schilawski of Decatur said they began their Black Friday shopping at 2 p.m. and planned to make just one more stop after leaving Target.

"We're not trying to get everything done," he said. "We mainly came out because I needed some trash bags and some other regular stuff and then figured we might as well browse around while my mom has the kids." Rebecca Schilawski said she went out from midnight to 4 a.m. last year on Black Friday and isn't keen to do it again. "You stand in line for two hours just to save a few bucks," she said. Nick Hand, senior team leader on Target's sales floor, started his 12-hour shift at noon Friday and said business had been steady ever since the lunch hour was over.

Josh Smith, assistant manager for Forsyth's Best Buy, said he was excited by the crowds that were lined up outside the store well before midnight on Thursday. "It was a good line last night," he said at midday Friday. "It went all the way around the building to the back of the complex, but we were organized and were able to get 650 people into the store in less than 40 minutes." Smith reported that small and medium televisions, tablets and cellphones were what caught customers' eyes. He noted that Friday was a good sign for the rest of the Christmas shopping season. "This is definitely a big weekend, and it will only get busier from this point on." 421-7982; Staff Writer Theresa Churchill contributed to this report.

Continued from A1 Old Navy at the Tanger mall. There, she had to stand in line for two hours. Russ and Kathy Garver of Decatur went to Wal-Mart on Thursday evening to catch some deals and spent five hours in line. "At 8 (p.m.), the place went nuts," Russ Garver said. "We were in a line of 60 (people).

All ours were cool people, but I guess after five hours, you kind of bond." Angela Martinek also started Thursday evening at Target, and she was pleased with the speed and efficiency of the staff. She also visited Wal-Mart, Kohl's, Bergner's, J.C. Penney, Menard's and Walgreens, with a break in the middle for some sleep. "Not a ton of deals for me this year," she said. "I was looking for toy deals, and they really weren't there for me.

Didn't stop me from finding things, though." Hope and Heather Hudson of Decatur, who were making their way through the crowds at J.C. Penney about 7 a.m., said they made the decision to wait until Friday morning to begin their Christmas shopping. "We got out about 4 a.m.," said Hope Hudson, who was holding some shirts and a pillow as she and her daughter searched through a store ad for good deals. "We're hoping to make it to all the stores in the mall," said Heather Hudson, 21. Both women said they didn't like the idea of stores being open on Thanksgiving.

Herald ReviewJim Bowling Nancy Robb stands at the front of a growing checkout line 10 minutes after J.C. Penney's 6 a.m. Black Friday opening. seemed to be coming in for kitchen appliances. "We had $8 Crock-Pots, coffee pots, waffle makers, blenders and griddles that sold out within about 10 to 15 minutes," she said, "but we have a lot of other good deals all over the store." There were plenty of shoppers throughout Hickory Point Mall on Friday morning, as well.

Jackie Walker, her daughter Ashley Piraino, her sister Julie Aubert and her niece Anna Peter were refueling for another round of shopping with coffee, soda, pretzels and cookies near Von Maur. "Thanksgiving should be a family time," Heather Hudson said. J.C. Penney store manager Jill Woolsey said that although the store opened at 6 a.m., three hours later than it did last year, there were still plenty of shoppers on hand when the doors opened. "I thmk we were busier this year at 6 a.m.

than we were last year at 3 a.m.," she said. "I don't know if maybe that's because other stores opened earlier last night so people had already been to those when we opened or what; but we definitely had a big rush." Woolsey noted that shoppers DEALS signs followed by low numbers floated above the treasures. As the cellphones struck 8, a din arose. Excited voices mixed with the sound of boxes dropping into metal shopping carts. The balloons danced as people dug into stacks of leather ottomans and 5-foot-by-5 foot bins of $5 DVDs.

The temperature climbed. An old man inched through the throng using a folding chair as a crutch. Traffic jammed. Complaints and a few curses echoed. "I'm not an angry person, but I was angry for the 20 minutes I was in there," said Danyel Coyne, a college stu dent, as she loaded a child booster seat into her trunk.

She and her boyfriend, Mike Yanke, had not come to shop. They needed a spare car seat to take Yanke's daughter back to Pittsburgh. Yet Yanke still bought a red, battery-powered convertible at his dad's request. The Finest Pre-Lit Such questions make Jones wince. "It shouldn't be that way, but in a sense, there's no way around it," said Jones, a nurse "Everything ends up with a dollar amount.

Even your happiness." Retailers have long capitalized on the holiday season's perfect storm of emotion and tradition. "We all want to be loved, we all like to give love," said Roger Beahme, director of the Center for Retail Innovation at the Wake Forest Schools of Business. Through a flood of advertising on TV, radio and newspapers, he said, retailers can create emotions. "Will Rogers said it's the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have on something they don't need," Beahme said. Although advertising can serve useful purposes, he said, "there's some truth to that." Many embrace the feeling and have, in accelerating ways, for a generation and more.

Without legions of believers, Black Friday never would have gotten this bold. Despite a surge of resistance as the sales drew near, with scolding editorials and protests by retail employees and reminders of frantic tram-plings past, Black Friday's grip on America may have been proven stronger than ever this year. "It's all part of the holiday, part of the tradition," said Dennis River, a truck driver who was in line for a television at the Wal-Mart in Beaver Falls, a small community outside of Pittsburgh. Last year, he went out alone at midnight Thursday. This year, he brought his wife and daughter.

They were in place by 7 p.m. "You get up in the morning, cook, do your dinner and your football, then you go shopping," River said. "It's the new thing now. Everyone's afraid of change." "If they wanna have sales today," he said, "I'm gonna go shopping today." Wal-Mart's cavernous store is always open, but the deals began at 8 p.m. As with most big retail stores, a police car was parked near the Beaver Falls store entrance.

A uniformed officer was at the door, near a stand holding maps to "featured products" such as bikes, cookware, sheets, video game consoles and eight different televisions. The witching hour approached. Yellow CAUTION tape cordoned off the bargains and funneled a few thousand supplicants through aisles of ignored items: yarn, shower curtains, party hats, clocks. Balloons printed with dollar Continued from A1 television in her cart. It was a consolation prize: Despite four hours in line, she missed the cheaper 40-inchers that she had heard about while listening to Internet radio.

Jackson's resignation was common among those who flocked to capitalism's temples for the consumer equivalent of genuflecting. Many said that this Black Friday, bled into Thursday, crossed a line, that merchants should not intrude like this. Christmas is about the message of Jesus, the feeling went, not about the gold, frankincense and myrrh. Yet, amid these protests, people still talked about feeling powerless beneath the moment as if they had no choice but to shop. "You have to have these things to enjoy your children and your family," said Jackson's friend Ebony Jones, who had secured two laptops for her 7- and 11-year-olds.

Why must we buy? To demonstrate our love for others? To add a few more inches to our televisions? To help America recover from a vicious recession that itself was born of the desire for more? 10 yr. Tree Guarantee 4 yr. Light warranty STATE biggest thing." The championship came in Maroa's return to Class 1A for the first time since 1983. The Trojans were in a state title game for the fourth time in seven years but had lost in the title game in 2009 and 2010. passing offense, but our guys did a good job of making it work." Stockton, a town in Northwest Illinois, was undefeated and had beaten its opponents by an average of 39.2 points per game coming into its fifth state title appearance, but Maroa jumped out to a 20-0 lead.

Stockton scored three straight touchdowns in the third quarter to take a 24-20 lead, but with the wind at his back, Jack led three touchdown drives to put the game away. "We have a motto of, 'Don't Jostes said. "Getting 24 unanswered points on you gives you every reason to flinch. Instead, we marched down the field and got a touchdown, then challenged our defense to get a stop. We didn't flinch; that was the mflT il 1 1 i- A 1 lliiii mrniiii i riirMiilmTT-ftifrTrMini 1 iiriiih -mm Continued from A1 playing in my first state championship game, but I was just anxious and ready to play," Jack said.

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