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Gerald L. Schrock, age 85, of Bourbonnais, passed away Saturday, August 17, 2019. Visitation is from 4:00 PM until 7:00 PM Friday, August 23, 2019, at Clancy-Gernon Funeral Home in Bourbonnais. Visitation is from 9:00 AM until the 10:00 AM funeral service Saturday, August 24, 2019, at Calvary Bible Church in Bourbonnais.

Under the new law, undesignated glucagon must be stored in a location immediately accessible to a school nurse or a designated care aid who can administer it to a student if authorized and if the student’s prescribed glucagon is not available on-site or expired. After the administration of undesignated glucagon, a school must immediately notify the student’s parent, guardian or emergency contact.

The Manhattan Park District and Social Snowball LLC in Bourbonnais, Illinois announce the launch of the Manhattan Park District’s new website, ManhattanParks.org. ManhattanParks.org is a fully mobile responsive website devoted to focusing on serving the Manhattan community.

Named after the ancient Egyptian "God of Chaos", 99942 Apophis, an asteroid as wide as the height of the Eiffel Tower, will rocket past the Earth in the next decade.

Members of the public are encouraged to join the City of Kankakee and States Attorney Jim Rowe next Monday, August 26th from 5-pm on the 4th Floor of the Kankakee Public Library for a Welcome Reception for City of Kankakee’s new Police Chief, Frank Kosman.

In his presentation, Dr. Mustapha also noted that CSI’s orbital atherectomy system (OAS) was the most frequently used atherectomy device in the study and that the OAS sub analysis of the LIBERTY data indicated high freedom from major amputation (RC2-3, 100%; RC4-5, 95.3%; and RC6, 88.6%) with no additional amputations reported after the two-year visit.