Knox in the News

From Herald News: 

JOLIET — Candidates in Joliet Grade School District are concerned that students are either getting passed from grade to grade or not receiving access to support services.

Quinn Adamowski and Lorraine Guerrero, both of Joliet, are vying for a West Side seat.

There are four spots open on the Joliet Grade School Board, including two seats on the East Side, one for at-large and one spot on the West Side.

Adamowski, 31, is assistant principal of Lincoln School, an alternative school for at-risk students. He has a bachelor’s degree from Knox College and master’s degrees from University of St. Francis and Olivet Nazarene University…

From WGIL.com:
A three decades old festival returns to downtown Galesburg starting Thursday night, and organizers say it’s for the most part, a truly local festival.

You can find a full schedule of performances online at Knox College’s website, but Malley cautions: there are always surprises.

From The Register-Mail
Most of us know Andy Gibbons as the longtime football coach at Knox College, but little did we know Andy’s a pizza maker at heart. This past Saturday, Gibbons and members of the Prairie Fire football program completed a second community service product by making and serving homemade pizza at the Galesburg Rescue Mission.

Gibbons, head coach and Knox athletic director Chad Eisele and about a dozen other players and coaches made 32 pizzas that served 40 residents of the Rescue Mission.

“It’s a great experience for our guys, and we know the people at the mission need our help,” Andy said. “We hope to make it an annual event.”

Andy said he started dabbling in homemade pizza making about nine years ago, an inspiration from watching The Food Channel on TV.

“My pizza was pretty bad at first, but it got better and now it’s pretty good,” Andy said. “I make everything from scratch, including the dough. I buy most of the ingredients locally at places like Thrushwood Farms and Hy-Vee, but I also send away for some of the ingredients.”

Andy said he makes all types of pizzas, but the supreme is his most popular. He described the style as handtossed. In addition to the Rescue Mission event, he’s made pizzas for team events at Knox, as well as a few church events and junior high school dances.

The best news? He wants to make pizza for The Lunch Gang! Andy said he’s going to check into securing an oven in the Knox cafeteria once school lets out in early June. Homemade pizza, here we come! Just go light on the cheese on my portion, Andy.

From The Register-Mail:
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck spoke to an overflow house on Oct. 29, 1947, at Central Congregational Church on Galesburg’s Public Square. She spent the majority of her life living in China and her novel “The Good Earth” was the bestselling book in the United States during 1931 and 1932. In 1938 Pearl became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. Pearl Buck elaborated during her presentation in Galesburg that, “Communism is not a threat to China. They are too individualistic, they speak their own minds.” She emphasized that the Chinese people want the friendship of the United States; however, they want to be left alone to develop. Pearl Buck’s appearance in Galesburg was made possible by Knox College. She died in 1973 at the age of 81.

From WGIL:
Congressman Bobby Schilling isn’t too thrilled with General Electric these days.

Schilling says some tough choices are going to have to be made, but wants help from his constituents coming up with them.

 From KWQC:
Employees at the Galesburg Amtrak Station said as gas prices started to climb, more drivers than usual began warming up to the idea of passenger rail service…