By Teresa Brummett
Lamp staff
As you enter Springfield and drive around the Lake there’s two roads that you’ll meet up with. Just between East Lake Shore Drive and West Lake Shore Drive there’s a bridge. It holds that name of a man born here in Springfield almost 139 years ago. It’s called the Vachel Lindsay Bridge.
By Dalen Lewin
Lamp staff
SPRINGFIELD – The way the blind have been able to read has changed tremendously in the past few hundred years.
The slate and stylus was the first device that the blind could use to write in braille with. It was also portable and easy to use. All one would have to do was poke the respective dots in the hole to put the braille dots onto the paper.
By Logan McHenry
Lamp writer
SPRINGFIELD—As the weather is finally starting to feel like spring, it’s a great time for another bird banding season.
The spring banding season started on Monday, March 20, and will continue running until the middle or end of May. The bird banding station can be found on the northeast side of campus behind the batting cages near the baseball and softball fields.
By Teresa Brummett
Lamp staff
Recently I was online and while scanning through all the information online I came across an ad for Starbucks. The ad talked about their new frappuccino that was going to be the hit of the spring time season. I noticed that the released of said frappuccino wasn’t going to be until April 18th, although a few Starbucks were giving out free samples beforehand.
By Cheyenne Gain
Lamp writer
JACKSONVILLE – You work at a fast-food restaurant, alone, at night, that’s off a busy highway. A man walks in with a gun; what do you do? Hit the panic button? There isn’t one. Yell for a coworker? No one else is with you. The only option you have is to give them what they want or be shot. How is it fair that employers do not have to provide their employees with a safe working environment?
Haley Schutz, 23, knows what it’s like to fear for your life. She is employed at Subway and has had bad encounters with people who were not so friendly.
By Teresa Brummett
Lamp staff
When kids are at the age of 3 years old they are usually playing with toddler toys and splashing in the tub. But for this future Olympian who was Born on September 26th, 1981 in Saginaw, Michigan that’s hardly all she was up to.
For the youngest of the two famous Williams sisters by the age of 3 years old Serena was starting her fierce tennis training.
By Logan McHenry
Lamp staff
CHATHAM — Senior citizens who reside at the Villas of Holly Brook got to relive their teenage days at the Seniors Citizens Prom on Friday, March 17.
The St. Patrick’s Day prom acted as a service project hosted by the Lincoln Land Community College Honors Program.
“The best thing about it was dancing with hot college girls,” said one of the residents in a conversation with Alicia Windisch, a member of the Honors Program.
Windisch mentioned one resident kept saying, “Life is good.”
By Teresa Brummett
Lamp staff
Back in 1991 the release of an animation movie from Disney broke records from the first week that it was released. When the animated movie of The Beauty and the Beast was released no one would have thought that it would rank so high.
Even in its second week out the animation version of The Beauty and the Beast grossed over $9,624,149 and kept climbing. By three months it had broken a few more records, as the fastest to $200 million for its time. Which was just over $202 million in sales.
By Andrew Paisley
Lamp staff
Janice Earl was born with what seemed like a constant cold and congestion in her chest.
“The doctor would put me on medicine, and I would clear up right away, but as soon as I was finished with the medicine, the cold symptoms would come right back.” Earl said.
It wasn’t until the age of 10 months, that doctors diagnosed Earl with Cystic Fibrosis.
Taylorville Memorial Hospital was honored to have Earl, a double lung and kidney recipient, speak March 1. The Decatur native was there to promote awareness for organ and tissue donation.
By Karlee Thompson
Lamp staff
SPRINGFIELD — Lincoln Land students were among a group of college students who took over the Illinois statehouse on March 2 to 5.
John Vinzant, political science professor, and several students from the model Illinois government class attended a simulation at the Illinois state capitol.
Students picked their political party and then they picked whether they wanted to be a part of the House or the Senate. They then split up into committees led by spokespersons.
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