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Principia Offering Tennis Clinics, Fundraising For Spring Break Trip

1 year 11 months ago
ELSAH - Principia College’s Varsity Women’s and Men’s Tennis teams are offering a series of Tennis Clinics throughout the month of November to teach tennis basics while fundraising for their Spring Break trip to California. Coaches Shannon Carney and Rusty Jones will join the college’s varsity tennis athletes to lead the clinics, which will cover the fundamentals of ground strokes, volleys, overheads, serves, and returns. Groups will pass through circuits on different courts covering skills and tactics. Each session will include warm up conditioning exercises, and there will also be time for singles and doubles play toward the end of each session. All clinics will be held at the indoor courts located at 1 Maybeck Place in Elsah. Tennis Clinics will be available on Mondays and Wednesdays from Nov. 1 to Nov. 29, 2023. Clinics will be open to all ages and skill levels, and a variety of pricing options are available. Those interested can “drop in”

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Jersey Middle School First-Quarter Honor Roll

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JERSEYVILLE - This is the Jersey Middle School School First-Quarter Honor Roll: 5th Grade Honor Roll Atteberry, Zoey N., Bexheti, Jona, Dalton, Olivia N., Deverger, Landen J., Dewitt, Haylie I., Eberlin-Brown, Kynleigh J., Gillespie, Hannah M., Hardwick, Keilee J., Herring, Eva J., Jordan, Gage R., Kanallakan, Lydia A., Klunk, Jaxen, McNelly, Landon F., Orlando, Phenix A., Reisch, Liam M., Rex, Tiberius A., Smith, Grayson J., Talley, Clayton M., Taylor, Samson W., Weatherford, Kaleigh E., Wellenreiter, Braxtyn E. 5th Grade High Honor Roll: Abbott, Collin J., Adair, Trenton M., Allgood, Logan B., Anderson, Liam D., Balcer, Catherine B., Baro, Jessa J., Baze, Madelynn E., Behl, Aubrey M., Bray, Abilene M., Brittain, Karleen P., Burkman, Annora R., Byrd, Makailynn A., Campion, Molly J., Cooley, Richard A., Damm, Ashlynn N., Darr, Hailey L., Daugherty, Clayton J., Eich, Peyton I., Fallin, Arthur W., Falter, Chiara, Ferguson, Hayleigh N., Fry, Piper, Gajewski, Violet E.

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Home Health Remedies: Fact vs. Fiction

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Home health remedies There are two home health remedies getting major exposure on social media platforms like TikTok. One is a mix of onion and honey, and another is a combination of garlic and honey. Ashley Simper, manager of Dietetic Services with OSF HealthCare, sifts through the research to explain what is fact vs. fiction. Onion and honey remedy TikTok user HealthwellnessAB, shared a “homemade cough syrup” using chopped onion and honey. Since being posted in early September, the video has garnered over 4 million views. The concoction starts with one layer of chopped onion, topped with one teaspoon of honey. The layering of honey and onion is repeated three times. Once the concoction is made, it’s recommended to keep it stored in the fridge for up to two weeks. “There are no clinical trials that show a direct correlation between eating red onion, or red onion extract, and reducing the symptoms of a cough. There are a lot of great things in

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Israel Gives Blacklisted Spyware Companies The Go-Ahead To Help It Track Israeli Hostages

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Decades of somewhat-restrained conflict between Israel and Palestine erupted into war again at the beginning of the month. Islamist militant group Hamas followed rocket strikes with a physical invasion, the latter of which included the massacre of hundreds of Israeli civilians. Israeli civilians were also tortured and mutilated. Hamas also allegedly kidnapped around 200 Israelis, […]
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The case for watching horror this Halloween and year-round

1 year 11 months ago
An increased interest in all things spooky means Halloween is right around the corner. Horror films are a perfect way to get into scary mode, but there is room for the genre all times of the year. Alex Rafi, associate professor of media production at St. Louis University, shares what makes horror an important storytelling genre.