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Your Hometown News Since 1840 www.WashingtonTimesReporter.com Vol. 171 No. 36

WedNeSdAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

 • Sept. 11, 2001 stories • Business Notes

 • Police News

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Around Town .......... A2

Opinion ................... A4

Sports .................. B1-4

Obituaries ............... B5

Police News .............B7

Classifeds .........B9-10

INSIDE

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BY BRANdoN ScHATSiek

TimesNewspapers

 As the 10th anniversary o the terrorist at-tacks o Sept. 11, 2001,approaches, it’s im-portant to step backand look at how the

horric and subse-quent heroic eventsthat day changed thelives o Americans or-ever.

One angle that isn’t oten talked about is

how this event is now discussed in schools.For many 13, 14 and 15 year olds and youngerchildren today, most probably don’t remembermuch i anything about that day outside o 

 what they learned rom their parents and am-ily.

Ten years doesn’t seem like that long ago, but 9/11 is history to them.

“We had actually started class,” said RonnaJames, a sixth- andseventh-grade history teacher at Beverly ManorSchool or the past 18

 years. “I didn’t really know what was going on,

 but one o our teachers’aides came in and said a

BY HollY RicHRATH

TimesNewspapers

Dave Webster o Washington said he paints murals whenever he gets the chance. But to call the work he did atGermantown’s Michael’s Italian Feast a mural would be anunderstatement.

His wie, Betty, calls it an “interactive mural,” because“you’re in the mural.” Owners Michael and Veronica Axelsoncall it a scene right out o Italy.

“We knew when we took this over we wanted to make ita Piazza,” Michael said. “I sketched out my chicken scratch

 with Dave and he changed it and improved it. Dave did 10times more than we ever imagined.”

 A ountain serves as a center piece to the room, which has been transormed into a scene worthy o an outdoor Italiancaé. Other eatures in the oor-to-ceiling redesign include

 balconies, windows, shutters, decorative tiles, archways,pillars, black lights to illuminate the painted buildings inthe evening, a bright blue “sky” complete with white, ufy clouds and a tree made rom etched concrete, a combinationo real and concrete branches and decorative leaves.

Honoring deceased veterans

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9/11: The change within

See MicHAel’S pAGe A5See 9/11 pAGe A7

Michael’s ‘interactivemural’ brings a little bitof Italy to central Illinois

It still changes lives today, even

those who are too young to remember

and those who weren’t born yet

Artst dav Wbstr an hs w, Btty, ma us M-ha’s untnng bany. Wbstr, ang wth h rmBtty, rns an thr nstrutn tams, transrman atn at Grmantwn’s Mha’s itaan Fast nt asn rm an itaan strt n thr mnths. HOLLY RICHRATH/TIMESNEWSPAPERS

“... i n’t want thm t s thatnnn, but ... t’s my uty asa tahr t uat thm abutwhat’s gng n n th wr.”

— Kit Zinser, teacher at St. Patrick’s School

panthrsbat M-i eastprapAGe B1

District 308 bought 3 acresof land, not the 3.3 it thought 

BY HollY RicHRATH

TimesNewspapers

District 308 Superinten-dent Dr. Jim Dunnan saida discrepancy, which costthe district three tenths o an acre o land, is “not a bigdeal.”

The district purchased what is known as the G.W.

Bayler home, located at 721  W. Jeerson Street, thissummer rom Chad and Jon-na Leuelling at the price o $348,000. Many residentshave since been present atDistrict 308 school board

meetings voicing their con-cern or the ate o the his-toric home.

  Along with the historichome, the purchase includ-ed a two-year-old structurethat is slated to serve as thedistrict’s new maintenance

  building and — as districtoicials were told — 3.3acres o land.

  An appraisal o the land was not conducted prior tothe district’s purchase.

“Typically when you doan appraisal, you do it or

the interest o securing aloan,” Dunnan said. “We’renot your typical buyer, so wedidn’t really even considerdoing an appraisal. At the

Dunnan said

descripancy is“not a big deal”

See AcReS pAGe A5