Carterville

You're in a school that, besides that jersey behind you,

Carterville helmet.

And that right there, guys, and your shirt, that's the only three schools in this area that's won a state championship in football in this area, right? Yeah.

I mean, that's how hard it is to do.

Yeah, you tell me about it all the time.

Come on.

Coach Wheeler and I used to do Carterville basketball.

How random is that? Tom Wheeler and I did Carterville basketball on the radio together for two years.

And earlier this month down in southern Illinois, John hosting an independent grocers summit.

at John A. Logan College in Carterville.

Also on the program today, I meet Dudley Hoskins, the USDA Undersecretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs.

He'll join us.

He's a community economic development educator for University of Illinois Extension.

I've talked to John on several occasions on this program, and we've been talking about the challenges of independent grocers.

And I know you had a summit October 7th in the southern part of the state at John A. Logan College in Carterville, I know basically kind of the counties that were represented there or invited to attend, Union, Johnson, Massick, Alexander, and Pulaski.

Before we get into actual, you know, some of the things you heard during that October 7th event, Let's circle back.

Marion Police announced the arrest of three Williamson County, Illinois men in four months with all three men facing grooming and decent solicitation of a child and traveling to meet a child charges.

The first arrest, 69-year-old Brian Hosh of Carterville on June 2nd.

Marion Police say he communicated with and arranged to meet with someone he thought to be a 16-year-old girl.

Then police arrested 52-year-old Stephen Boyd of Marion on August 19th.

Number three in the rankings.

Number two is Carterville.

Steady all year.

Just been just, just, just-

Give it up.

Centralia, conference champs.

Carterville, conference champs.

Johnson City, conference champs.

He loved spending time on the lake, the companionship of his dogs, a good bacon cheeseburger, and above all, time with family.

Ron is survived by his wife of 45 years, Shirley, his sons Jeff Gusta of Carterville, Illinois, and Aaron Gusta of Eldridge, Iowa, his grandsons Austin O'Brien and Aiden Gusta, his sister and brother-in-law, Deb, uh, Lassen El- Ely, his nephew Alex and niece Eva Schmid, and his great-nephews Bennett and Hayes Schmid, along with other many cherished family members.

A private celebration of Ron's life will be held with family, followed by a private burial with military honors at Rock Island National Cemetery on the Rock Island Arsenal.

Arsenal.Memorials can be made to the Wounded Warrior Project.

We were talking before.

You grew up in Carterville?

I did.

Graduated? Class of 93 from Carterville High.

Carterville High School.

Where'd you go from there? What'd you do?

I went from there to Logan, Johnny Logan.

Matt Cagle.

And then the Carterville Lions remain at two, and the Centralia Orphans atop the poll at number one.

We had two Orphans on the show this week.

Watch the show coming up with Staples and Bratton.

That's how many they played in.

Uh, y- I mean, we, but we've had some teams, like, that have competed against them.

We've had Carterville.

Herrin.

From the land grant university in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, this is the Closing Market Report for the seventh day of October.

I'm Extension's Todd Gleason, coming to you today from the Independent Grocers Summit, taking place in Carterville, Illinois.

That's in the deep southern part of the state.

We'll hear more about that a bit later.

Antonio Brown's leaving comments.

Uh, Carterville is in second.

[laughs] I just got a notification, Antonio Brown on Twitter.

That's crazy.

Uh, Carterville Lions in second with 72 points.

The West Frankfort Redbirds, they're in third with 67 points.

The Carbondale Terriers in fourth with 55 points.

Yes.