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20-0363

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE

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to provide interested parties an opportunity toexpress their views on the proposed Downstate

Small Business Stabilization application funded byCommunity Development Block Grant (CDBG)funds. Persons with disabilities or non-English

speaking persons who wish to attend the publichearing and need assistance should contact

Denise Hayes, City Clerk, 115 East Prairie Street,Jerseyville, Illinois, 62052, at 618-498-3312 no

later than May 29, 2020. Every effort will be madeto make reasonable accommodations for thesepersons. At the present time, due to COVID-19

mandating, this meeting will be held viateleconference. Individuals wanting to listen to the

Council conduct the public hearing and/orparticipate during the public hearing by providing

public comment, may do so byCALLING 618-639-3333 and ENTER PIN # 02088.

On or about June 2, 2020, the City of Jerseyvilleintends to apply to the Illinois Department of

Commerce and Economic Opportunity for a grantfrom the State CDBG program. This program is

funded by Title 1 of the federal Housing andCommunity Development Act of 1974, as

amended. These funds are to be used to provideworking capital for the benefit of Southtown Group

Inc. DBA Tri County Bowl. The total amount ofCDBG funds to be requested is $25,000.00 and

will address the urgent needs of the business dueto the COVID-19 emergency.

Information related to this application will beavailable for review at least seven days prior to the

public hearing at the Jerseyville City Hall lobby,115 East Prairie Street, Jerseyville, Illinois, 62052

between the hours of 8:00 AM and 4:30 PM,Monday through Friday. In addition, the

information will be available on the City’s websiteat www.jerseyville-il.us. Interested citizens areinvited to provide comments regarding theseissues either at the public hearing or by prior

written statement. Written comments should besubmitted to Bob Manns, Director of Public Works,115 East Prairie Street, Jerseyville, Illinois, 62052,or bmanns@jerseyville-il.us no later than June 2,

2020 to ensure placement of such comments in theofficial record of the public hearing proceedings.This project will result in no displacement of any

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20-1079

IN THE CIRCUIT COURTTHIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUITM A D I S O N C O U N T Y ,I L L I N O I S

CYNTHIA EDWARDS,

Petitioner,

vs.

KEVIN EDWARDS,

Respondent.

Case No. 20-D-88

Notice is given to you, KEVINC. EDWARDS, Respondent,that this cause has been com-menced against you in thisCourt regarding a Petition forDissolution of Marriage, Peti-tion for Temporary Relief andPetition for Interim Attorney'sFees and Costs.

Unless you f i le your re-sponse, or otherwise file yourappearance in this cause, inthe office of the Circuit Clerkof Madison County, Edwards-ville, Illinois, on or beforeJune 8, 2020, the Court maygrant the Petitioner’s pendingPetition for Dissolution ofMarriage, Petition for Tempor-ary Relief and Petition for In-terim Attorney's Fees andCosts.

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20-1080

STATE OF ILLINOISIN THE CIRCUIT COURT OFTHE THIRD JUDICIAL CIR-CUITMADISON COUNTY

IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF:Shulin Yang, Petitioner,andMeihua Wang, Respondent

Case Number: 19-D-994

NOTICE OF PUBLICATIONNotice is hereby given on thependency of a suit entitled"SHULIN YANG vs. MEIHUAWANG" in the Circuit Court ofMadison County, Third Judi-cial Circuit, Edwardsvil le,I l l ino is wherein SHULINYANG is Petitioner and MEI-HUA WANG is Respondentwhich suit No. 19-D-994 andis for a Dissolution of Mar-riage. The Respondent, MEI-HUA WANG, is to be servedby publication. Default maybe taken on or after June 8,2020 in the Courthouse in Ed-wardsville, Illinois.

Mark Von NidaCircuit Clerk

Law Office of Jamie MitchellLLC, Attorney for Petitioner2201 North Center StreetMaryville, IL 62062(618) 855-9033

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20-1078

IN THE CIRCUIT COURTTHIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUITM A D I S O N C O U N T Y ,I L L I N O I SJUVENILE DIVISION

TO: ANY AND ALL UN-KNOWN FATHERS AND TOALL WHOM IT MAY CON-CERN

IN THE INTEREST OF: MI-C H A E L R Y A N C O X , AM I N O RKADEN RONALD COX, AMINOR

CASE NUMBERS: 17-JA-171, 18-JA-317

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

Take notice that on JANU-ARY 7, 2020, petitions werefiled under the Juvenile CourtAct by Thomas Gibbons inthe Circuit Court of MadisonCounty entitled "In the In-terest of MICHAEL RYANCOX AND KADEN RONALDCOX" CASE NUMBERS: 17-JA-171 and 18-JA-317, MI-CHAEL RYAN COX ANDKADEN RONALD COX,minors, and that on JUNE 25,2020 at the hour of 2:00 PMor as soon thereafter as thiscause may be heard, an adju-dication/disposition hearingon a petition to terminate par-ental rights will be held uponthe petition to have the chil-dren declared to be wards ofthe court under that Act. Thecourt has authority in this pro-ceeding to take from you thecustody and guardianship ofthe minors, to terminate yourparental rights, and to ap-point a guardian with power toconsent to adoption. You maylose all parental rights to yourchildren. If the petition re-quests the termination of yourparental rights and the ap-pointment of a guardian withpower to consent to adoption,you may lose all parentalrights to the children.(SEAL)MARK VON NIDAClerk of the Circuit Court

20-1083

IN THE CIRCUIT COURTTHIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUITM A D I S O N C O U N T Y ,I L L I N O I SJUVENILE DIVISION

TO: ANY AND ALL UN-KNOWN FATHERS AND TOALL WHOM IT MAY CON-CERN

IN THE INTEREST OF: LIL-LIE RAE STONE, A MINOR

CASE NUMBER: 16-JA-95

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

Take notice that on DECEM-BER 10, 2019, a petition wasfiled under the Juvenile CourtAct by Thomas Gibbons inthe Circuit Court of MadisonCounty entitled "In the In-terest of LILLIE RAE STONE"CASE NUMBER: 16-JA-95,LILLIE RAE STONE, a minor,and that on JULY 14, 2020 atthe hour of 1:00 PM or assoon thereafter as this causemay be heard, an adjudica-tion/disposition hearing on apetition to terminate parentalrights will be held upon thepetition to have the child de-clared to be a ward of thecourt under that Act. Thecourt has authority in this pro-ceeding to take from you thecustody and guardianship ofthe minor, to terminate yourparental rights, and to ap-point a guardian with power toconsent to adoption. You maylose all parental rights to yourchild. If the petition requeststhe termination of your par-ental rights and the appoint-ment of a guardian withpower to consent to adoption,you may lose all parentalrights to the child.(SEAL)MARK VON NIDAClerk of the Circuit Court

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Before COVID-19 killed thousands of nursing home residents, about 4 in 10 homes inspected were cited for infection control prob-lems, according to a gov-ernment watchdog report Wednesday that finds a “persistent” pattern of lapses.

In light of the pan-demic, seemingly minor cutting of corners such as an employee caring for residents while battling a cold has taken on new significance.

“Warning signs were ignored and nursing homes were unprepared to face a pandemic,” said Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, the top Demo-crat on a committee that oversees Medicare and Medicaid. “There need to be big changes in the way nursing homes care for seniors.”

The report from the Government Account-ability Office found that state inspectors who help enforce federal nursing home standards classified the overwhelming major-ity of violations as not severe, generally meaning there was no actual harm to residents. The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services carried out enforcement actions for 1% of viola-tions classified as not severe from 2013-2017, the report said.

Nursing homes ended up bearing the brunt of the coronavirus outbreak. About 1.4 million people live in some 15,500 facili-ties in the United States. Most of those people were already at higher risk due to age and medi-

cal history, and they also shared dining rooms, rec-reation areas, bathrooms and sleeping quarters.

An ongoing tally by The Associated Press has found over 34,000 coro-navirus-related deaths at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, more than one-third of all COVID-19 deaths in the country.

The GAO report found that about 40% of the nursing homes inspected in each of the past two years were cited for prob-lems with infection con-trol and prevention.

Looking deeper into federal data for 2013-2017, investigators found a recurring pat-tern of problems. Data for that five-year period showed that 82% of nurs-ing homes inspected, or 13,299, had at least one deficiency related to infection control and prevention. About half of the facilities had an infec-tion-related deficiency in multiple consecutive years.

“This is an indicator of persistent problems,” the GAO’s nonpartisan inves-tigators said. The agency carries out oversight for Congress.

The types of problems involved such issues as failing to properly wash hands and not isolating sick residents during out-breaks. “Many of these practices can be critical to preventing the spread of infectious diseases, including COVID-19,” investigators wrote.

The nursing homes cited in the report were not identified.

Seema Verma, head of the federal Medicare and Medicaid agency, said this week that gov-ernors should exercise “extreme caution” before allowing nursing homes to reopen to visitors. Verma has announced that CMS plans to name a commission to exam-ine the nursing home response to coronavirus and make recommenda-tions. The GAO said it plans other reports to independently examine how CMS responded to the outbreak as well as the agency’s oversight of infection control in nurs-ing homes.

The head of the nurs-ing home trade group, the American Health Care Association, has flagged infection con-trol as a priority for the industry. “We are absolutely committed to a renewed emphasis on infection control,” Mark Parkinson said in a recent interview.

By Hyung-Jin KimAssociated Press

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean students began returning to school on Wednesday, but not without some hitches, in a pos-sible template for other countries struggling to reopen educational facilities.

Hundreds of thousands of high school seniors across South Korea entered their schools after having their temperatures checked and rubbing their hands with sanitizer — familiar measures amid the coronavirus pandemic. Students and teachers are required to wear masks, and some schools have installed plastic partitions at each student’s desk, according to the Education Ministry.

Only high school seniors returned on Wednesday. Younger students are scheduled to return to school in phased steps by June 8.

In a reminder that getting back to normalcy won’t be easy, students in some schools near Seoul were asked to return home in the morning after two students were found to have contracted the coronavirus. Earlier Wednesday, health authorities also reported 32 new cases in South Korea for a total of 11,110, the first time the daily jump has been above 30 in more than a week.

South Korean officials say virus infections are likely to be reported eventually at some schools but express confidence they can sup-press those outbreaks. “We can-not avoid initial confusion and anxiety but I believe we can over-come those as we’ve been calmly and swiftly handling and contain-ing COVID-19,” senior quaran-tine official Kwon Jun-wook told reporters Tuesday.

South Korea’s caseload has been gradually waning due in large part to its aggressive trac-ing, testing and treating strategy

and widespread public support for government-led social distanc-ing rules. But recently, a sudden spike in new infections linked to nightclubs in Seoul’s Itaewon entertainment district has posed a threat to the quarantine cam-paign.

There are also worries that schools could be new sources of infections. The French govern-ment said Monday that about 70 virus cases had been linked to schools, one week after a third of French schoolchildren went back to school in an easing of the coro-navirus lockdown.

In South Korea, if any school has a new virus case, its students, teachers and other staff will imme-diately be asked to return home and authorities will disinfect school facilities, Education Ministry offi-cials said.

South Korea’s new school year was supposed to start in early March, but was delayed several times due to worries about the spread of the coronavirus. About 5.4 million students in South Korea have been taking classes online.

At Seoul’s Kyungbock High

School, Cho Hee-yeon, the educa-tion superintendent in the capital, used a digital ear thermometer to check students’ temperatures at the main gate as another official placed liquid sanitizer on the hands of the students. Signs reading “No outsid-ers are allowed to enter the school premises” had been set up.

“I am here to see students returning to school while praying that there won’t be any coronavirus patients among our students in 2,200 schools” in Seoul, Cho told reporters.

Students at 66 schools in Incheon, just west of Seoul, had to leave after two students at one of the schools tested positive for the virus Wednesday. The two students didn’t attend classes on Wednesday, but authorities decided to tempo-rarily close all schools in their area, according to the Incheon Metro-politan City Office of Education.

The two students had been in a karaoke room visited by another student who tested positive for the virus after taking private classes from a person who visited an Itae-won club, according to Incheon city officials.

Kim Jun-beom | Yonhap via AP Senior students wait for class to begin with plastic boards placed on their desks at Jeonmin High School in Daejeon, South Korea, Wednesday. South Korean students began returning to schools Wednesday as their country prepares for a new normal amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Watchdog cites persistent infection lapses in nursing homes

South Korean high school seniors return to school