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Sound & Image Videography
Address: Gillespie, IL 62033
Phone: 217 – 825 – 4111
Website: http://www.soundandimage.org/
Email: jim@soundandimage.org
About Us:
Jim Marcacci and Bruce Logsdon officially became partners about three years ago, after working together for years doing all kinds of video projects together. Jim taught video communications at Gillespie High School and Bruce taught the same type of class at Litchfield High School. Combined, that makes for about 40-45 years of experience in the video field.
Jim has done weddings, sports highlights, documentaries, training films, memorial tributes, and just about every kind of video event you can imagine. He and his classes created WGHS-TV in 1996, a student-run station that still broadcasts out of Gillespie High School over their cable company’s network feed in the Gillespie area. It still operates today even though Jim has retired from teaching. Jim produced a senior citizen exercise video called “Easy Does It”, which the St. Louis Post-Dispatch called the “Year’s Best Video” for the elderly.
Bruce’s story is very similar. He did his first wedding in 1988, using old analog equipment. Since that time, he has produced over 100 wedding videos. While he was teaching, he ran a program called ON-LINE, which was a student-produced show that “aired” over the school’s Channel One system for over eight years, producing over 100 shows. Bruce has also worked in the broadcast area, filming and editing a show called Adventure Sports Outdoors, which airs out of Peoria’s PBS station, WTVP-TV/PBS, Channel 47. His filming has taken him to Alaska three times, all over the continental US, and to the island of Roatan off the coast of Honduras. The shows appeared for several years on the Sportsman Channel, as well.
Bruce and Jim are currently filming and documenting a Celtic Fusion band called The Emerald Underground, out of Springfield. Their tours have taken them all over Springfield, Peoria, and Chicago, to name a few places, and there are tentative plans to travel with the band when they go to Ireland in the next few years. Some of these videos, as well as other videos done by Sound & Image, can be seen on YouTube. They are also in the beginning stages of producing a video documentary of the Coliseum in Benld.
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Gillespie nursing home changes ownership, renamed to Gillespie Health & Rehab Center
Heritage Health Gillespie announces it has changed ownership. Renamed Gillespie Health & Rehab Center, the 100-bed subacute and skilled nursing facility provides a broad spectrum of care, including long- and short-term care and rehabilitation, in an intimate and compassionate environment.
The new ownership team is a group of individuals who are skilled nursing facility managers and operators based in Illinois. The ownership change was effective July 1, 2023, and Heritage Health was the seller.
“In these challenging times, it is very reassuring that our new ownership team has years of know-how, shared values and a great group of experienced experts – based right here in Illinois – to support our care team,” said Kim Schardan, the facility’s CEO/administrator.
Gillespie Health & Rehab Center, at 7588 Staunton Rd., in Gillespie, Ill., will benefit from the hands-on attention that comes from a smaller, but very skilled “non-corporate” ownership and management team. The team has overseen operations at similar-sized care centers, in rural and suburban communities in Illinois and the Midwest, and brings many new ideas that have been very successful at other facilities.
“Our new owners view Gillespie Health & Rehab Center as a world of family and friends,” said Schardan. “They share core principles and standards that reflect the people and beliefs of our region: Genuine Hometown Care, Community Integration, and Employees are Family.”
Gillespie Health & Rehab Center is known for its focus on providing hometown care with a commitment to fully integrating with the healthcare needs of the Gillespie, Ill., community. As it continues to grow, the center will benefit from working with a skilled, hands-on regional ownership team.
“The ownership group has significant experience in overseeing operations at similar-sized care centers in rural and suburban communities,” Schardan noted. “We anticipate incorporating new ideas that have been successful at their other facilities as we work to advance our mission of excellence in care.”
About Gillespie Health & Rehab Center
Gillespie Health & Rehab Center is a 100-bed subacute and skilled nursing facility in Gillespie, Ill., and offers long-term care, short-term care, rehabilitation, occupational therapy, physical therapy, rehab-to-home, speech therapy, hospice care, and respite care. The center is currently accepting new admissions for short-term rehabilitation and long-term care. For further information, please contact (217) 839-2171 or visit the Gillespie Health & Rehab Center website at www.gillespiehrc.com.
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Enjoy a spring buffet at JoDanni’s Amore on Thursday, April 13, 2023, from 4:30 to 7:00 p.m. The buffet will include pork chops, chicken spiedini, house salad, garlic rolls, scalloped potato, pasta con broccoli, vegetable medley, drink, and key lime cupcake for dessert.
The price for a ticket is $25. Tickets must be purchased by Thursday, March 30.
For tickets, contact Catherine Young at 217-825-8488 or Mary Griffel at 217-556-5456. The meal is sponsored by the First United Methodist Church of Gillespie.
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Great joy took place on Sunday, March 12, 2023, as members of the United Methodist Church of Gillespie witnessed and celebrated six young people being baptized and/or confirmed at the 10:30 a.m. church service.
The students professed their faith in Jesus and became members of the church.
The new members include Clayton Bethard, Izzy Manus, Lydia Lowry, Makenna Martin, Marshall Garwood, and Wyatt Rondi.
