Congratulates the Pingsterhaus family on being named the Clinton County Farm Family of the Year.
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Congratulates the 2006 inductees into the Mt. Vernon Township High School Sports Hall of Fame.
Congratulates Kaskaskia College on being honored with the Lincoln Bronze Award for Commitment to Excellence.
Welcomes and thanks the soldiers of the Illinois National Guard Unit #123, based in Salem, as they return home from serving in Iraq.
Congratulates the Germantown Trust & Savings Bank board of directors on the occasion of the bank's 100th anniversary.
Thanks the Franklin Park School Beta Club and Steve Smith, Helen Arnold, Arletta Bundy, and the Gilead Methodist Church Quilt Group for their assistance in sending several quilts to soldiers from the Salem National Guard Unit who are serving in Iraq.
Mourns the death of Gerald "Jerry" Sinclair of Salem.
Mourns the combat death in Iraq of USMC Lance Corporal Jonathan Kyle Price of Woodlawn.
Congratulates Melissa Cockburn and Sheila Stowers of Mount Vernon on achieving National Board Certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
Congratulates soldiers as they are honored at the "Welcome Home Warrior-Citizen Award Ceremony" on January 7, 2006, in Mt. Vernon, and thanks them for their devotion to our country and willingness to bravely serve and defend the freedom of people everywhere.