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National Pasta Day

National Pasta day is celebrated every October 17. The folks who created pasta definitely knew what they were doing. Hundreds of years of Italian tradition go into this simple meal. Each October, we devote a special day to this incredible dish. Pasta come in many shapes and sizes but no matter the form, it’s something nearly every American Family has grown up with.

Learn more about this and other holidays at National Today

Clarksville Man Remains Jailed in Massac County on Kentucky Warrants Following Monday Morning Car Chase

(WMOK) Metropolis, IL – WMOK spoke with Metropolis Police Chief Harry Masse regarding a chase that took place throughout parts of Metropolis on Monday morning with speeds reported via scanner traffic as high as 60mph.

The event began when the Massac County Sheriff’s Office received a call of a domestic on US 45. While attempting to locate – the subject was located by Metropolis Officers in Fort Massac State Park at which time they initiated a stop.

The subject fled through Metropolis at excessive rates of speed – 12th street, 8th street, 6th street – the scanner traffic advising of location was so rapid that we could not have possibly updated it on Faceb00k here in the WMOK newsroom. We quickly went to live updates on air and advised motorists in Metropolis to pull off of the street and park until the danger had ended.

Chief Masse advised that the fact that they did not know if the passenger was being held against their will created great urgency in stopping the vehicle.

The car chase ended at 3rd and Pearl streets when a Metropolis squad struck the rear of the van which forced it into the curb causing tire damage.

The subject then fled on foot and was caught after being tased.

Jeffrey Blevins,28, Clarksville TN was charged with aggressive fleeing and eluding, aggravated reckless driving and suspended driver’s license.

Chief Masse told WMOK that Blevins was wanted on a parole violation warrant out of Kentucky for a drug charge as well.

WMOK followed up with Massac County Sheriff Chad Kaylor late Monday afternoon and he confirmed that Blevins remains in custody on a Kentucky warrant.

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Christmas Dueling Piano To Take Place on November 17

The highly anticipated Massac Memorial Hospital Foundation Fundraiser is just around the corner, and this year it’s going to be a Christmas Dueling Piano extravaganza featuring the incredible talents of Steve Heisner and John Windings.

The festivities will kick off with a delightful Silent Auction and delectable appetizers at 5:30, setting the perfect ambiance for an evening of musical enchantment.

Then, at 7:00, the main event will begin, promising an extraordinary experience filled with harmonious melodies and friendly competition.

Make sure to clear your schedule for November 17th, as this unforgettable event will take place at the Shawnee Community College.

To secure your spot, tickets can be conveniently purchased through our user-friendly website at www.massachealth.org.

Alternatively, you can reach out to Robbin McDaniel at 618-524-2176 ext 3113 for ticket inquiries and reservations.

Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity to support the Massac Memorial Hospital Foundation while enjoying a memorable evening of Christmas-themed dueling pianos.

Mark your calendars now and get ready for an evening you won’t soon forget! For more information, visit: [https://fb.watch/nHxJpMDlCl/?mibextid=v7YzmG]

New Location Coming: Happy Hearts Senior Center Relocates to 7th and Pearl Streets - No Food Service This Week - WMOK Metropolis IL

WMOK (Metropolis, IL) - WMOK is in touch with Bettie Stoner at Happy Hearts Senior Center regarding what patrons need to be aware of as the move takes place to the new location this week. Happy Hearts will be closed this week through Friday to facilitate the move to the new location at 7th and Pearl Streets in Metropol...

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Dan Huffman of Kiwanis Speaks with WMOK on the Importance of Younger Generations in Local Service Clubs - 3.27.25

WMOK (Metropolis, IL) - Dan Huffman of the Metropolis Kiwanis club joined WMOK for Coffee Break last week to discuss the Scholarship Spaghetti Supper that took place on Saturday evening at Massac County Junior High. During our visit, we discussed the importance of younger generations joining local service clubs. Younge...

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Give-Back at the Pump: Massac Memorial Hospital Auxiliary

(WMOK) Metropolis, IL - In March, local residents have a unique opportunity to support their community while filling up their tanks. Acee's Food & Fuel, located at 2105 E. 5th St. in Metropolis, is partnering with the Massac Memorial Hospital Auxiliary for a special fundraiser. Throughout the month, customers who r...

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Domestic Violence Awareness and Prevention Month:

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If you’re in need of a pathway to exit an abusive relationship please contact
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Via email to WMOKnews@frontier.com with the words “upcoming event” in the subject line

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Via Mail – 339 Fairgrounds Road, Metropolis IL 62960

Tuesday, October 17

The Kiwanis Club of Metropolis meets every Tuesday at noon at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 520 Ferry Street in Metropolis

The Metropolis Elks Lodge monthly meetings take place the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month. Except July, August and December only the 1st Tuesday. Members only can attend. Applications can be picked up at the Lodge or from a member.

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Wednesday, October 18

8A – Massac County Drug Awareness Coalition Meeting will take place at Metropolis City Hall

9-11A – Plant a Row, Watch COPE Grow – Food Donation Garden Stewardship Days First and Third Wednesdays – Volunteers Needed

9a – 3p – COPE Food Pantry takes place in Metropolis today and every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 1013 North Avenue – please bring your photo ID and proof of Massac County residency.

5-7P – Trinity Tree of Life Food Pantry 605 Metropolis St (Every Wednesday)

Thursday, October 19

The Rotary Club of Metropolis meets every Thursdays at 12P in Community Christian Church, 1150 Country Club Rd.

5-8P – Joppa-Maple Grove Unit School District 38 – Joppa Spirit Night (Fall Festival)

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Friday, October 20

9a – 3p – COPE Food Pantry takes place in Metropolis today and every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 1013 North Avenue – please bring your photo ID and proof of Massac County residency.

9:30A – 2P – Encampment School Day program, where volunteer re-enactors give presentations on the history of the area. They recommend that buses arrive at 9am. The program will start at 9:30am and end at 2:00pm. Each group leader or teacher will be given a schedule for the day and is responsible for their group. Students may arrive after 9:30am and leave before 2:00pm if needed.

Fort Massac Encampment – // Oct 21-22 // Metropolis, IL

Saturday, October 21

10A – 5P – Fort Massac Encampment – History comes to life in the park.

8P – Fireworks begin at Fort Massac State Park

Sunday, October 22

9A – 4:30P – Fort Massac Encampment Step back into life of the late 1700’s as you see the sights, taste the foods, hear the music and experience the battle.

Brookport Church of God- Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser: Sun, Oct 22nd following service in the Fellowship Hall

4:30P – Miss Metropolis Scholarship Competition – Metropolis Community Center, 900 W. 10th St. Tickets are $15 in advance or $18 at the door. Tickets are available through any contestant, executive director Sandy Farmer at (618) 645-0363 or co-director Leesa Foster at (618) 638-6507.

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Monday, October 23

9a – 3p – COPE Food Pantry takes place in Metropolis today and every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 1013 North Avenue – please bring your photo ID and proof of Massac County residency.

5P – At the River Ministries Monthly Community Dinner at the Metropolis Community Center, 900 W. 10th St. Held the fourth Monday of the month.

6:30pm– Massac Unit #1 – Regular School Board Meeting

7P – Metropolis City Council Meeting – Metropolis City Hall

The Massac County Farm Bureau Farmers Market Has Ended for the 2023 Season

... But you can still find our farmers locally until their season ends

(WMOK) Metropolis, IL – The Massac County Farm Bureau officially ended the weekly Farmers Market at Dorothy Miller Park in late September – however local farmers will continue to make their produce available to the community until their growing season ends.

A popular spot for Massac County farmers to make their good available to the community is what many know as the “former Clark School lot” on East 5th Street.

Mr. Verbarg has told WMOK that he will set up on that lot throughout the end of his growing season. He currently has apples as well as other produce and recently told WMOK that he will soon have turnips.

All Massac County farmers are invited to let us know at WMOK what produce you have available and when/where your goods will be available.

Save the Date

Sunday, November 5, 2023

Clocks will “fall back” one hour at 2 a.m. local time on Sunday, November 5, 2023.

Saturday, November 11 – Veterans Day

Monday, November 13 – Friday, November 17

City of Metropolis Clean Up Week – All items must be at your normal pick up place and within 5 feet of the trash container. All Items should be bagged or contained – anything loose should be bundled so that it can be handled by one employee. Lumber will be picked up in small amounts only and must be stacked in 3’x3′ rolls. Carpet and padding must also be rolled in no larger than 3’x3′ rolls. Items that will not be picked up include: electronics, appliances, yard waste, hazardous or medical waste, construction and demolition debris, tires, batteries and paint cans (unless empty and dry).

Friday, November 17 5:30P

Massac Memorial Hospital Foundation Christmas Dueling Pianos – featuring Steve Heisner and John Windings at Shawnee Community College. Tickets are $30 until Nov 3rd. Silent Auction & Appetizers will start at 5:30 and event at 7:00pm. You may purchase tickets via the website or by calling Robbin McDaniel at 618-524-2176 x3113. Tickets can be purchase after Nov.3rd and at the door for $35

Thursday, November 23 – Thanksgiving

Friday, November 24 – Black Friday

Saturday, November 25 – Small Business Saturday

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Illinois and Beyond

LIHEAP Program Available to Assist Southernmost Illinois Residents with Heating Expenses

The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) helps eligible low-income households pay for home energy services (primarily heating during winter months).

Energy costs can place severe and continuing stress on a family’s budget. In some instances, households are forced to make painful decisions regarding which bills to pay and which necessities to survive without.

Illinois residents with a household income that does not exceed an amount determined annually by the Department of Commerce are eligible.

Annual eligibility levels are determined based on available funding and may not exceed 200% of the federal nonfarm poverty level.

Hate crimes jumped 7% in 2022 from year before, FBI data show

(NewsNation) — Reports of hate crimes in the United States jumped nearly 7% in 2022 from the previous year, according to new data from the FBI.

The agency’s annual Hate Crime Statistics report shows the uptick was particularly acute for Jewish Americans, who were the victim of 1,124 hate crimes in 2022, the most recorded since 1995 and an increase of 36.4% from 2021.

Black Americans remained the most targeted group in 2022, with 3,424 incidents recorded, a jump of 3.8% from the prior year. Hate crimes against LGBTQ people were also up 13.8% in 2022.

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Man faces misdemeanor for twice bringing guns to Wisconsin state Capitol, asking to see governor

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A man who brought a loaded handgun into the Wisconsin Capitol, demanding to see Gov. Tony Evers, and returned hours later with an assault rifle after posting bail has been charged with a misdemeanor.

Joshua Pleasnick, 43, was charged Monday with carrying a firearm in a public building. The Madison man is scheduled for an initial court appearance on the charge Thursday in Dane County Circuit Court. Online court records do not list an attorney who could speak on Pleasnick’s behalf.

A message asking whether Pleasnick has been assigned a public defender was left Tuesday with the State Public Defender’s Office by The Associated Press. Messages were also left by the AP for two attorneys listed in a previous divorce case involving Pleasnick.

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Generation Gap

Most Boomers Missed This Retirement Strategy But Millennials Still Have Time

Fidelity Investments recently released its annual estimate of healthcare costs in retirement. The scary numbers indicate the average person older than 65 years old may spend $157,500 in out-of-pocket expenses for healthcare in retirement. A couple may pay an average of $315,000.

Middle-aged Millennials should take note, this is not just a Baby Boomer problem. Imagine what those costs might be in a few short decades from now.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services estimate

that out-of-pocket healthcare expenses may grow at a projected 4.1% between 2025 and 2031. CMS also suggests a low growth rate of 3.6% due to changes in Medicare Part D enabling the negotiation of lower drug prices. While there are many countervailing variables between now and Millennial retirement years, what might the out-of-pocket healthcare costs be for the first wave of retiring Millennials?

Assume the oldest Millennials retire at 65 years old — 23 years from now — in 2046. What if health expenses in retirement continue to grow from today’s out-of-pocket estimates at the rate CMS projects (between 4.1% and 3.6%)? Let’s say it’s 3.8% annually. Could Millennial couples be looking at average healthcare costs in retirement of approximately $742,000, while solo-living Millennials expect to pay more than $371,000 for healthcare in their retired years?

These five toys are regular finalists for Hall of Fame honors. Now fans can vote one in

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — They are playfully called the “forgotten five”: A handful of toys — the pogo stick, the Fisher-Price Corn Popper, My Little Pony, PEZ dispensers, and Transformers — that regularly approach toybox royalty as finalists for the National Toy Hall of Fame, only to be tossed back on the pile.

For one of them, this is the year they finally make it in. The Hall of Fame is letting fans decide which one.

Toys usually are chosen for the annual induction ceremony with input from a panel of historians, educators and other experts. The members vote for their top three out of a dozen finalists that have been selected by an internal committee from among thousands of nominations that come in each year.

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To all of our Happy Hearts learners – we want you to keep working on this daily routine of texting. Also – Continue to write down any questions that you have about your phone so that we can assist you with those when we meet at happy hearts on October 25th.

Max Baer Jr. once saved Buddy Ebsen's life on the set of ''The Beverly Hillbillies''

Most of us don’t consider our day jobs a matter of life and death, but one fateful day during the filming of The Beverly Hillbillies, it was.

In his autobiography, The Other Side of Oz, actor Buddy Ebsen recounted a harrowing experience he had during production for the hit television series. He wrote, “In the show, during Jethro’s ‘Double-Naught Spy’ phase, he inventively installed helicopter blades on the old Hillbilly truck, and with blind faith in the feasibility of his conversion, he and I prepared for takeoff in our first test flight.” Viewers may recall that in “Double Naught Jethro”, Jethro, after seeing a spy film, decides to reinvent himself as a secret agent and attempts to convert the family car into one fit for espionage.

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R.I.P. Suzanne Somers, Chrissy from Three's Company

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Actor and author Suzanne Somers has passed away. She was 76.

In a statement to NBC News, Somers’ publicist, R. Couri Hay, confirmed that Somers passed away peacefully at home early Sunday, October 15th, 2023.

“Suzanne was surrounded by her loving husband Alan, her son Bruce, and her immediate family,” the statement continued.

As revealed in a New York Times piece, Somers’ cause of death was breast cancer. The publicist’s statement to NBC included the detail that Somers “survived an aggressive form of breast cancer for over 23 years.”

Somers is best remembered by fans of classic TV for her role as Chrissy Snow on the sitcom Three’s Company. In addition to that series, Somers was acclaimed for her portrayal of matriarch Carol Foster Lambert on Step by Step from 1991 to 1998.

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Teens Spend Average of 4.8 Hours on Social Media Per Day

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Just over half of U.S. teenagers (51%) report spending at least four hours per day using a variety of social media apps such as YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and X (formerly Twitter), a Gallup survey of more than 1,500 adolescents finds. This use amounts to 4.8 hours per day for the average U.S. teen across seven social media platforms tested in the survey.

Across age groups, the average time spent on social media ranges from as low as 4.1 hours per day for 13-year-olds to as high as 5.8 hours per day for 17-year-olds. Girls spend nearly an hour more on social media than boys (5.3 vs. 4.4 hours, respectively).

These data are from the Familial and Adolescent Health Survey conducted by Gallup June 26-July 17, 2023, using the Gallup Panel. The survey collected data from 6,643 parents and 1,591 adolescents who were the children of those parents. The survey asked about parental and child wellbeing, parenting practices, youth mental health, youth activities, quality of parent-child relationships, and other topics. The data were collected amid growing concerns from academic scholars that social media use is habit-forming, leads to overconsumption and may contribute to mental health problems. A recent report published by Gallup and the Institute for Family Studies contributes to this discussion.

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Massac County Lady Patriot Volleyball

Congratulations to our volleyball seniors as they capped off a three level sweep of Anna-Jonesboro tonight on Senior Night to earn their 24th win of the season.

Massac County Soccer

Good luck to Coach Reinwald and the Massac County boys soccer team as they play for the Carlyle 1A Regional Championship this afternoon at 4:00pm against Waterloo Gibault.