PYBO Sign-Up Two Sundays
Pana Youth Baseball Organization will be having sign-ups on Sundays, Mar. 7 and 14, from 2:00-5:00 p.m. each day in the Panthers Den of Pana High School.
Informational sheets should be coming home from the schools.
If you have any questions, or can not be there, please contact Troy or Jenny Culberson at 562-5765, or Karen Lett at 562-4243.
Pana Soccer League Registration
The Pana Soccer League is registering players for its second year of 6v6 Spring Soccer. Any student in 5th through 8th grade may play depending on birth date.
Each player must be registered with the Pana Soccer League and must have his or her own form. This recreational league will consist of a girls division and a boys division with games being played on two smaller fields at Tanner Park.
The League will have a U-14 and U-12 Divisions:
U14: Players born between Sept. 1, 1995 and Sept. 1, 1997 (7th and 8th grade).
U12: Players born between Sept. 1, 1997 and Sept. 1, 1999 (5th and 6th grade).
Schedule of Games
U14 and U12 games, Saturday mornings, Apr. 17 through May 15.
For more information or to register your team, contact Ron Rybolt, Spring soccer director at 562-4799 or download a registration form at www.panasoccer.com.
Registration forms need to be returned by Monday, Mar. 15.
EIU Basketball Celebrating 100 Years
Eastern Illinois men's basketball celebrates 100 years of intercollegiate basketball. WEIU and Eastern Athletics present this 30 minute documentary that chronicles the moments, the memories and the teams. It will premiere at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Mar. 12, on WEIU-TV.
The program looks at the early years of the game: playing in 'The Crackerbox'' or Pem Hall Gym, followed by the transition the Lantz Gym in 1938 which was the envy of sister state institutions. The post-war years would see the 1952 team make the school's first appearance in a national tournament. The 1957 team would make a repeat appearance. The 1960's would usher in the opening of the present Lantz Arena and the excitement of the 1976 and 1978 teams.
Eastern would make a significant transition from NCAA division II to division I under the direction of head coach Rick Samuels. His 1992 team would be the first in school history to play in the Division I NCAA tournament. In 2001 one of the most incredible comeback's in school history was played out on national TV between EIU and Austin Peay. Eastern would upset their rival coming from behind to win the OVC tournament.
The program includes interviews and personal accounts from former players and coaches including Roger Dettro, Lloyd Ludwig, Brad Warble, Troy Collier, Rick Samuels, Mike Bradd, Dave Kidwell, and Ousmane Cisse. Photographs from the University Archives, Eastern Athletics and The Warbler tell the early years, followed by vintage film and video clips for the later years.
The program is a joint production of WEIU TV and Eastern Athletics as part of the 100th Anniversary celebration of Eastern Basketball.
WEIU-TV can be viewed on Channel 51, Mediacom Channel 6, Insight Communications Channel 14, Consolidated DVS Channel 6, Dish Network and Directv Channel 51.
2010 Sports Fish Consumption Advisory
The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) has announced the 2010 consumption advisories for sport fish caught in Illinois waters.
The following lakes and rivers are new to the advisory this year: Indian Camp Creek in Pulaski County, Centralia Lake in Marion County, Pana Lake in Shelby County, Lake Jacksonville in Morgan County and McKinley Park Lagoon in Cook County. These additions are the result of expanded and directed sampling by the Fish Contaminant Monitoring Program and do not suggest that Illinois fish are becoming more contaminated.
The Illinois Fish Contaminant Monitoring Program screens fish samples from about 40 bodies of water each year for contamination from 14 banned pesticides, industrial chemicals and methylmercury. The program is a joint effort of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) and the departments of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Public Health.
The fish are collected by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) and tested by IEPA. IDPH issues an annual consumption advisory based on the IEPA test results. This year’s advisory is included in the 2010 Illinois Fishing Information booklet, which is available from IDNR and from businesses that sell state fishing licenses. The advisory also can be found on the IDPH Web site http://www.idph.state.il.us/envhealth/fishadv/2010_fish_advisories.pdf.
’The advisories are not meant to discourage people from eating fish, but should be used as a guideline to help anglers and their families decide the types of fish to eat, and how to prepare fish for cooking to reduce possible contaminants,’ said Dr. Damon T. Arnold, state public health director. ‘Fish can be an important part of a balanced diet. It is a good source of high quality protein and other nutrients and is low in fat. But, contaminants may make some fish unsafe to eat except in limited quantities, particularly for women of childbearing age and young children.’
While there is no known immediate health hazard from eating contaminated fish from any body of water in Illinois, there are concerns about the effects of long-term, low-level exposure to pesticides and chemicals, such as chlordane, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and methylmercury, found in fish listed on the advisories. Methylmercury has been found to cause reproductive damage and have adverse effects on the central nervous system, including developmental delays.
The advisories are based primarily on protecting sensitive populations, including women of childbearing age, pregnant women, fetuses, nursing mothers and children younger than 15 years of age.
This year’s changes to the advisory include:
¥ Centralia Lake, Marion County - Carp larger than 27 inches should be limited to one meal per month and Channel Catfish larger than 17 inches should be limited to one meal per week because of elevated levels of PCBs.
¥ Pana Lake, Shelby County - Largemouth bass larger than 16 inches should be limited to one meal per month for sensitive populations and one meal per week for all others because of elevated levels of methylmercury.
The statewide mercury advisory cautions sensitive populations to eat no more than one meal per week of predator fish, which pose a greater risk because they feed on other fish and accumulate higher amounts of methylmercury. Predator fish include all species of black bass, (largemouth, smallmouth and spotted) striped bass, white bass, hybrid striped bass, flathead catfish, muskellunge, northern pike, saugeye, sauger, and walleye.
Women beyond childbearing age and males older than 15 years of age can eat as many meals of predator fish as they please, with the exception of the fish caught from the 22 bodies of water that are on the special mercury advisory, which have more restrictive meal advice because of high levels of methylmercury. These include; Ohio River, Rock River (Rockford to Milan Steel Dam), Arrowhead Lake, Campus Lake, Cedar Lake, Devil’s Kitchen Lake, Evergreen Lake, Heidecke Lake, Kinkaid Lake, Lake Bracken, Lake Renwick East, Lake in the Hills, Little Grassy Lake, Mt. Olive New City Lake, Little Wabash River and Tributaries, Marquette Park Lagoon, Midlothian Reservoir, Monee Reservoir, Sam Parr Lake, Pana Lake, Lake Jacksonville, and Wabash River.
For fish that may contain PCBs and chlordane, the advisory provides consumption advice in five categories - unlimited consumption, no more than one meal per week, no more than one meal per month, no more than six meals per year and do not eat.
Anglers who vary the type and source of sport fish consumed - opting for younger, smaller fish, and consuming leaner species such as walleye and panfish over fatty species such as carp and catfish, and who prepare and cook fish in ways that reduce the amount of contaminants - can limit their exposure to harmful substances that may be found in fish.
There are several ways to reduce any PCBs and chlordane present in edible portions of fish:
¥ Before cooking, remove the skin from the fillet and cut away any fatty tissue from the belly and dorsal areas.
¥ Broil, bake or grill in a way that allows fat to drip away.
¥ Discard fat drippings or broth from broiled or poached fish. Do not use in other dishes.
These precautions will not reduce the amount of methylmercury in fish. Mercury is found throughout a fish’s muscle tissue (the edible part of the fish) rather than in the fat and skin. Therefore, the only way to reduce mercury intake is to reduce the amount of contaminated fish eaten.
