Picture Day for IVCHS Spring Sports:

Rushin' Rewind Column:

My short lived career in oil was 'crude'

      April 8, 1988:     

By Jeff Rushin/chilliblogger I was a news reporter at the Chilli Bulletin:

Jeff Rushin

   ... And up though the ground came a bubbling crude. Black gold. Texas tea. Oil that is." 

  And while it wasn't the Bugtussle, Tennessee -- the home of the TV family the Clampitts, but it certainly wasn't Beverly Hills either. I came upon my own 'oil gusher' when I responded to a call on the police scanner while sitting at home that night.
  AS AN AMBITIOUS cub reporter, I was the first one to arrive on the scene at this rural neighborhood (Woodland Heights), about 10 miles west from where I lived. The subdivision, which is located southwest of the Mossville Caterpillar plant, is situated on an oil pipeline.
  My white 1986 Chevrolet Celebrity was speckled in black as I approached what appeared from a distance to be a black tornado running through a neighborhood on a night with a clear Spring sky. It was my Dad's last company car that I had just purchased as my first work car as he retired and I finished college.

Birthdays and Anniversaries: 

  Christopher Gould, a native of Chillicothe, is 44 years old today, March 18, 2012. He is married to Marie and is the proud father of two beautiful children, Elise and Griffin. The Goulds reside in Louisville, Kentucky. Chris is a 1986 graduate of Illinois Valley Central High School and a 1990 graduate of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Happy Birthday, Christopher!