From the Register-Mail:
The Knox College baseball team swept Illinois College 6-5 and 2-1 in a Midwest Conference doubleheader played at Blodgett Field on Wednesday.
The Prairie Fire improved their season record to 7-15 and are 5-4 in the MWC.
From WGIL radio:
Judging by the past four years, the 2009 Midwest Conference Men’s Golf Championships is anyone’s for the taking.
Knox College’s 2008 MWC title marked the third different team in the four years to take the league crown. The Prairie Fire hope to add their 30th title and be the first team to repeat since they took eight consecutive from 1994-2001.
Eight other MWC squads will look to ruin Knox’s repeat bid as the battle for conference supremacy is set to tee-off Thursday (April 30) and conclude Saturday, May 2nd in Rockford.
From the Register-Mail:
From supermarkets to colleges, the Illinois Department of Corrections and wind energy companies — The Green Solutions Expo 2009 at T. Fleming Fieldhouse at Knox College showed ways in which area companies, organizations and agencies are trying to do things in a more ‘environmentally friendly’ way.
Wednesday’s event was the third Green Solutions Expo. The first, in 2007, was at Monmouth College; last year’s Expo was at Western Illinois University. Linda Lee Blaine, director of Monmouth’s Prairie Tech Learning Center, was one of the people who came up with the idea for the event.
‘The whole point of it is to educate the public on environmental issues,’ Blaine said, ‘and also to celebrate the things being done in our area, such as wind energy.’
From the LA Times:
Dwight R. “Rocky” Crandell, a U.S. Geological Survey volcanologist whose persistent tracking of deep layers of mud led to a pioneering reassessment of volcano hazards in the Pacific Northwest, died April 6 at a hospice in Wheat Ridge, Colo., from a heart attack. He was 86….
In 1978, Crandell and his longtime scientific partner, Donal R. Mullineaux, warned in a report that the Mt. St. Helens volcano 150 miles southeast of Seattle could erupt within 20 years. It did, in a furious blast in May 1980, resulting in 57 deaths.
Crandell and Mullineaux’s studies began in the early 1950s, while assigned to map the Puget Sound lowlands southeast of Seattle, where the men overturned what was then the conventional wisdom that the area’s landscape had been shaped mainly by glaciers….
Crandell was born Jan. 25, 1923, in Galesburg, Ill., and earned his “Rocky” nickname while studying geology in college. He received a bachelor’s from Knox College in Galesburg and a doctorate from Yale University. In between, he served in the Army during World War II, fighting in Germany as a lieutenant in a mortar platoon.
He began working for the USGS in 1951 and for most of his career was based near Denver. He did most of his fieldwork on Pacific Northwest ash falls, mudflows and lava extrusions in the summer, then spent winters analyzing the rock and soil samples gathered earlier.
From the Register-Mail:
One hour before flame burned prairie grass, you could close your eyes and let sound tell a story.
The only audible noises at Knox College’s Green Oaks Biological Field Station were a chorus provided by frogs from a nearby pond and the call of crows as they moved over and through leafless timber.
The quiet didn’t last long. Change was on the way.
By 11 a.m. Saturday close to 200 students, professors, alums and the curious filed into Knox College’s 700 acres of forest, grassland and aquatic habitat located in western Knox County near the Spoon River — about five miles south of Victoria along Knox Highway 15. They were gathered for annual spring prairie burn.
From the Register-Mail:
Knox College on Wednesday announced the hiring of Jeff Bernhardt as men’s soccer coach.
Bernhardt replaces Lucas Robison, who left the Prairie Fire after a 5-12 performance in 2008.
Bernhardt has spent the last seven years coaching at numrous age levels, most recently as four years as the head coach of the Quad Cities United Premier soccer club. Bernhardt also coached the last two seasons as the Pleasant Valley fresh/soph coach, going 24-5 with a pair of second-place finishes in the conference.
