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AlWood board approves new training session for teachers
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WOODHULL -- The AlWood School Board has scheduled a March 1 security training session for teachers by the Illinois State Police. The district will use "Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Counter and Evacuate" to enhance, not replace, its current crisis practices, superintendent Shannon Bumann said. Theproactive approach will involve all middle and high school staff members.Students also will be trained on reporting suspicious activity and conversations to authority figures, situational awareness of a crisis and making the safest decision on whether to stay safe or escape. The middle/high school had a practice lockdown on Dec. 18 following the current emergency plan. "It took approximately 25 seconds to be in full lockdown after the announcement was made over the intercom," principal Andrew Mitchell told school board members on Tuesday. "I was impressed with the lockdown alert," said board member Dave Althaus. "It was handled swiftly and well, and a lot of people were talking about how well it was done. It made me proud." In other business, Mr. Bumann told the board a new lighting system will be installed in the AlWood High School Walt Minder gymnasium in Woodhull. Funded by a $4,000 grant , donation of $3,000 from AlWood Youth League and $1,000 monetary from Invenergy, the project will have no cost to the district,Mr. Bumann said. Board members also approved Moline school's petition to withdraw from the Black Hawk Special Education District and approvedRachel Dean as seventh-grade girls basketball coach and Joel Zaiser as fresh/soph softball coach. 
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Today is Tuesday, May 21, the 141st day of 2013. There are 224 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: On Monday the 11th inst. on Center Ridge in Mercer County,some citizens got out their cannon to celebrate the taking of Richmond. The gun wasoverloaded and burst. No one was injured, but one 30-pound piece went though thesecond story of a house.
1888 -- 125 years ago: The old folks concert at the Harper Theater last night to benefit St.Luke's Cottage Hospital, attracted a large audience.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Unless depredation by vandals in Rock Island parks is halted,special policemen will be assigned to night duty to protect the flowers and other property.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Station WHBF has received a special citation from Washington forits participation in Air Mail Week, which was observed this week throughout the nation.
1963 -- 50 years ago: A 10-year high in employment in the Quad-City area was reachedat the end of the last quarter, according to an industrial employment barometer releasedtoday.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Pee Wee teams will be able to play baseball and softball as usualon Diamond Three at Dorrance Park this summer, but after that, the ball field is doomed.County crews have put the diamond back in shape after heavy trucks marred the playingfield earlier this spring. Illinois Department of Transportation crews drove onto it to makeborings for the relocation of the junction of Illinois 84 and the Port Byron-Hillsdale road.
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