🌱 How Ullin residents can get a free at-home colon cancer test

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• How Ullin residents can get a free at-home colon cancer test

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Today's riddle: Can February March? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Tuesday: Sunny and not as cold, with a high of 44 and low of 34 degrees.
• Wednesday: Mostly cloudy, temps: high: 52, low: 46.
• Thursday: Showers and a heavier t-storm, with a high of 56 and low of 24 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Southern Seven Health Department Extends Free Colorectal Cancer Screening Program through 2026 (wmclradio.com) — Residents in and around Ullin can continue getting free at‑home colorectal cancer screening kits from Southern Seven Health Department through June 2026, thanks to renewed state grant funding. Adults ages 45–75 in the seven southernmost Illinois counties can request a simple FIT kit, with follow‑up colonoscopies arranged for abnormal results to catch and remove polyps early.
   

📸 Around Ullin

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Ullin

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Thursday December 18

• HS Boys Basketball at Cobden
  Century CUSD 100 Cobden
  6:00 pm

Friday December 19

• HS Boys Basketball - Dongola Christmas Tournament
  Century CUSD 100 Dongola

Friday December 26

• HS Boys Basketball - Cobden Holiday Tournament
  Century CUSD 100 Cobden

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🗓 Events Nearby

Tuesday December 16

• End of Second Quarter
  Dongola Jr High School Dongola, IL 62926
  8:00 am
• JH Boys Basketball at Home vs. Adams
  Dongola Jr High School Dongola, IL 62926
  6:00 pm

Wednesday December 17

• Red Cross Blood Drive
  Dongola USD 66 Dongola, IL 62926
  10:30 am
• Christmas Concert
  Dongola Elementary School Dongola, IL 62926
  6:00 pm

Thursday December 18

• 2:00pm Dismissal
  Dongola USD 66 Dongola, IL 62926
  2:00 pm
• JH Boys Basketball at Century
  Dongola Jr High School Dongola, IL 62926
  6:00 pm
• Dongola School Board meeting
  Dongola USD 66 Dongola, IL 62926
  6:30 pm

Friday December 19

• Elementary Christmas Parties
  Dongola USD 66 Dongola, IL 62926
  1:00 pm
• Report Cards Go Out
  Dongola USD 66 Dongola, IL 62926
  2:30 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• FDM Field Services posted a job opening for Retail Merchandiser in Mounds. Apply here.
• Pizza Hut posted a job opening for Team Member in Anna. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Ullin here.

🗞 Nearby News

Cairo

• Low river levels slow soybean traffic toward the Gulf (brownfieldagnews.com)

Metropolis

• Metropolis Man Arrested for Domestic Battery and Violation of Protection Order (920wmok.com)
• Harrisburg Woman Arrested for Suspended Registration and Outstanding Warrant (920wmok.com)
• Donald Eugene 'Gene' McKinney, 91, of Albion, Illinois (wfiwradio.com)

Carbondale

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: I don't know, but April May!
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