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![Zion Temple COGIC church's senior pastor, Stephen Robinson Jr., preaches in the church Sunday, Feb. 8, 2021, in Murphysboro, Ill. He was installed as senior pastor in 2014. "During these 28 days [in February] we are making it a point to gear our sermons and our Bible studies toward Black history events or toward things that will remind us who we are and the stuff that we come from," Pastor Robinson said.](https://dailyegyptian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/K3A9903-Edit-600x900.jpg)
![Zion Temple COGIC church's senior pastor, Stephen Robinson Jr., preaches in the church Sunday, Feb. 8, 2021, in Murphysboro, Ill. "During these 28 days [in February] we are making it a point to gear our sermons and our Bible studies toward Black history events or toward things that will remind us who we are and the stuff that we come from," Pastor Robinson said.](https://dailyegyptian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/K3A9865-Edit-600x900.jpg)
![Crosby Gardner, 24, completes his ninth dive with instructor Tish Kinseykautz Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. Gardner graduated last year, 2019, with honors and a 3.10 GPA from the West Kentucky University Autism School. He had been chosen out of 80,000 applicants for one of five seats at the school. “When I was first diagnosed with autism, I was four years old and they told me that I would never walk, that I would never have balance, that I would never drive, that my life would be shit and I proved them wrong when I graduated [from the West Kentucky University Autism School],” Gardner said. He had been talked into trying scuba diving by a friend and has been diving since September 29, 2020.](https://dailyegyptian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/belknap_2020_55-900x600.jpg)
![Dan Pender, U.S. Army veteran, shows his tattoo sleeve in memory of his father and to honor active and inactive service members on Veteran's Day at the Keller's Crossing at Stone Creek Golf Course in Makanda, Ill., Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020. "This is tribute to my father because he is no longer with me. He died of cancer, but he served in the Korean War he was shot there and got a purple heart so the folded flag is him no longer being here. This is his name and service number [on the dog tag] and his purple heart that he received," Pender said. Each year on Veteran's Day, owners and veterans Tim Chrzan and his son Jason, host a veterans golf free event to honor those who have served their countries.](https://dailyegyptian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/K3A0558RGB-900x600.jpg)
![Dan Pender shows his tattoo sleeve in memory of his father and to honor active and inactive service members on Veteran's Day at the Keller's Crossing at Stone Creek Golf Course in Makanda, Ill., Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020. "I was in the Army in 1980 to '84. I just followed my dad in. He was my big influence. He got wounded when he was in Korea and I started my sleeve because of him. I've got the Marines, the Air Force, Navy, and this one here [top of the sleeve] is for all the ones who never made it home," Pender said.](https://dailyegyptian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/K3A0560RGB-546x900.jpg)
![A Trump 'Make America Great Again' hat sits on the ballot table where a voter was asked to remove it due to the state law for election petitioning that you can campaign within 100 feet of a polling place Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in Belknap, Ill. "Yeah, just like we had to move the campaign signs because they were too close [to the poll], Deborah Brown, a Belknap poll worker, said.](https://dailyegyptian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/K3A0376RGB-900x600.jpg)
![Lena Petersen looks at the memorial wall for Treehouse Wildlife Center's celebrity red fox, Chuckles, at the first-ever, Owl-A-Ween Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020, in Dow, Ill. “She did pass away, the memorial fence is over there, and then starting tomorrow I’ll have to pick a date so we can burn them [memorial notes] with everybody’s messages. Today is the last day for people to put messages up on the fence for her. It’s kind of like the idea of a Tibetan prayer [flag] site," Kelly Vandersand, TreeHouse's fundraising coordinator, said. Chuckles was admitted into Treehouse as an orphan in 2007 with head trauma that resulted in a permanent brain injury. Since 2008, she had helped raise over 60 young, orphaned red foxes for release back into the wild. Chuckles passed away in the middle of September.](https://dailyegyptian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/K3A0265-900x900.jpg)
![Vixey, a red fox stands by a carved pumpkin at the Treehouse Wildlife Center's first-ever, Owl-A-Ween Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020, in Dow, Ill. “They’re under Carnivora [red foxes], so they are carnivores, but they can and will eat plant matter [pumpkins]. Their success rate of catching live prey in the wild isn’t that high, so they have to sometimes supplement their diet with other things," Treehouse rehab advisor, Rachael Heaton said. Pumpkins are safe for most animals to eat. “A lot of times they’ll drill holes and hide treats in there… it’s an enrichment so that they have something to do instead of sitting around all day,” Kelly Vandersand, TreeHouse's fundraising coordinator, said.](https://dailyegyptian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/DSC_4337-900x588.jpg)
![Will Kuebrich reaches for his balloon animal that was made by Professor Longhair from Professor Longhair's Grande Illusions at Treehouse Wildlife Center's first-ever, Owl-A-Ween Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020, in Dow, Ill. Professor Longhair and his grandson, Corbin, practice magic together and have done a lot of shows in Edwardsville, Ill. "A very good friend of mine from Blackburn College is a volunteer there and she said something about Owl-A-Ween. She asked if I would be interested in doing [magic]. I’m very interested in doing rehabilitation for wild animals, so I thought I would love to come out here and entertain the kids and help raise some money. We have a little tip hat out for the animals. It’s a great cause and all of these people volunteer their time and I thought, well, I can do that too," Professor Longhair said.](https://dailyegyptian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/DSC_4261-900x601.jpg)
![Mandy Rothert, lab manager at the Fermentation Science Institute at SIU, describes testing sanitizers for impurities in the Fermentation Science Lab Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020. “This is where we were testing some commercial hand sanitizer and we were [looking for] any of the byproducts, the impurities, in the ethanol, I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed how some hand sanitizers smell like bad tequila, so that’s all of those byproducts in there that we don’t want,” Rothert said, “we use this to measure the alcohol percentage to make sure that we were at 80 percent.”](https://dailyegyptian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/K3A8095-EditRGB-900x616.jpg)
![Mandy Rothert, lab manager at the Fermentation Science Institute at SIU, “Campus had us make ten 55-gallon drums for them and then they took them to a centralized location and that’s where they pump it out and then put it in containers to distribute, but then we had made this [stock] and planned on selling it at some point,” Rothert said. “It seems like the demand has really slowed down and people aren’t buying it anymore, so the SIU Foundation bought a bunch of these little bottles from us and they would send them out to their alumni with a Saluki mask,” Rothert said.](https://dailyegyptian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/K3A8097-EditRGB-900x581.jpg)
![Richard Bochantin, DuBois, ILL., sells a variety of watermelons, spaghetti squash, pumpkins, and peppers at the Humpday Farmer's Market on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, in Carbondale, ILL. "I always use crimson [watermelon] or sangria [watermelon] and then I got these big melons. They sell pretty good too," Bochantin said. "The sangria [watermelon] is a different texture, the meat inside. This one [crimson] is more blocky, you know, chunky. This one [sangria] is more smooth." Bochantin said that he would have orange watermelons next year due to the number of inquiries that he has had this year.](https://dailyegyptian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/LeahSutton2RGB-900x600.jpg)
![Al Morgan, a local Native American artist, plays a flute at the Humpday Farmer's Market on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, in Carbondale, ILL. Morgan makes and sells jewelry, dreamcatcher, baskets, and more. He began creating art when his wife got sick from Parkinson's as a hobby and has continued to expand the types of art that he makes. "I like to sell to people in person, I like to talk to people,” Morgan said. “I’ve got blood from three native tribes as well as good ole’ Appalachian Scotts Irish and we had little things like that [flute] that we used to try all the time.” Morgan used to be a history and science teacher and said that he is able to teach people to play the flute as well.](https://dailyegyptian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/LeahSutton1-600x900.jpg)
