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Sunday | WHOI

Eight Dist. 150 Teachers File Discrimination Lawsuit

Eight-white Peoria School teachers are suing District 150, claiming discrimination by African-American administrators.

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Fri Dec 18, 2009

WNKS-FM Charlotte

The "O" Show

Otis was born an incarnate of Abraham Lincoln in the capital of IL . After getting sick of how ghetto it was there, he thought he could find his Cinderella in a pumpkin in Morton, IL .

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Sun Dec 06, 2009

The Deerfield Review

West Suburbs events

If visions of sugar plum fairies are dancing in your head, it must be the holiday season, awash with Nutcrackers, "Christmas Carol" productions, and stockings full of holiday music concerts.

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Fri Dec 04, 2009

Voracious

The Great Canned Pumpkin Shortage

In 2009, an endangered species? Not long before Thanksgiving, the media started reporting that there was a nationwide shortage of canned pumpkin puree.

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Wed Dec 02, 2009

Merle Widmer's Peoria Watch

New Interim Superintendent at PPS District #150

Norm Durflinger of Morton, Il. has been promoted from deputy administrator to interim Administrator for the next 180 days.

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Mon Nov 30, 2009

cbs2chicago.com

Shortage Of Pumpkin Pie Filling Upsets Shoppers

No pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving? That's the "harsh reality" facing families all over the United States.

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Sat Nov 28, 2009

Daily Southtown Lifestyles

Poor weather affects pumpkin harvest

Nestle Baking announced this week that it expects a shortage of Libby's Pumpkin on store shelves as the country enters the holiday season.

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Thu Nov 26, 2009

Grist Magazine

Global boiling declares war on Thanksgiving

Paul Bakus in a ruined pumpkin patch. Photo: Wonk Room Our increasingly extreme climate is devastating American agriculture.

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Tue Nov 24, 2009

Green Bay Press-Gazette

Pumpkin pie shortage expected

The holidays may not be so sweet this year. Nestle - which sells nearly all the canned pumpkin in the U.S. - says poor weather hurt its harvest, creating a potential shortage of its Libby's pumpkin pie products through the holidays.

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Mon Nov 23, 2009

WHOI

Truck Driver Killed While Loading Steel

A Wyoming man has died after an industrial accident on Friday. The Peoria County Coroner says 48-year old Carl Ziemer died Friday evening at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center after an accident at G&D Transportation in Morton.

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Sun Nov 22, 2009

NBC Chicago

Pumpkin Shortage Threatens Holiday Pies

Fans of pumpkin pie may be in for a big disappointment at this year's Thanksgiving dinner.

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Sat Nov 21, 2009

National Ledger

Pumpkin Pie Shortage - Thanksgiving, Christmas Scramble

Black Friday may have to wait for the real retail scramble - there is a pumpkin pie shortage! Blame it on the rain.

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Thu Nov 19, 2009

Real Time Economics

Libby's Pumpkin Shortage Stymies Thanksgiving Tradition

Close November 19, 2009, 2:42 PM ET By Kelly Evans It's every baker's worst holiday fear: you head to the grocery store for ingredients to whip up your famous pumpkin pie - but there is no pumpkin left on the shelves.

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ABC News

Rain May Put Pumpkin Pie in Peril, Nestle Says

In a statement to customers this week, Nestle said heavy rains made it nearly impossible to pick its pumpkins during this year's harvest.

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Tue Nov 17, 2009

The Plain Dealer

Buy Libby's canned pumpkin now, before it runs out

If you don't act fast, you could be eating apple pie instead of pumpkin for Thanksgiving dinner.

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Augusta Chronicle

Flavor of holiday season doesn't have to be homemade

That homemade Thanks-giving meal and post-holiday favorite, the pumpkin pie, might be in short supply this year.

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Sun Nov 15, 2009

The Norman Transcript

The Great Canned Pumpkin Shortage of 2009

When word began to leak in grocery stores of the canned pumpkin shortage plaguing this holiday season, baking enthusiasts hoped the chatter was a joke.

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Thu Nov 12, 2009

Sun-Times News Group

Briefs: Budget workshop tonight

The city of Evanston invites residents to a community budget workshop at 7 p.m. Nov.

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Tue Oct 27, 2009

Sun-Times News Group

Evanston to seek budget input at meeting

The city of Evanston will kick off its 2010-11 budget process with an overview/educational workshop from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov.

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Fri Oct 23, 2009

The Reporter

Pumpkin for pie in short supply

By McClatchy-Tribune and Reporter StaffFor the second year in a row, fans of pumpkin pie may look to their grocery store shelves and see only emptiness where there should be cans of pumpkin pie mix.There's a shortage.Blame bad weather in the single village that's home to the single company controlling 80 to 90 percent of the nation's pumpkin pie ...

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