This newscast aired at 4:04pm on 5-28-2025 on WGLT.
From the WGLT Newsroom, I'm Ben Howell. Advocates for older Americans staged a rally in Normal to protect services they say are under threat. Jewel Johnson of Normal often eats her congregate meals at the Activity and Recreation Center, or ARC and Normal. Johnson fears she will struggle if food delivery is delayed or cut.
The meals would be cut which would impact my, you know, income, you know, we're all on fixed income and congregate meals help to help me budget. The Trump administration has reorganized a government agency that supports older adults and people with disabilities.
At State Farm's Technology Research and Innovation Laboratory, researchers are not only working on how best to protect policyholders, they also collaborate with manufacturers of housing materials. Senior research analyst Doug Dewey says the lab manages standards and ratings for impact resistant roofing. As far as uh.
State Farm's approach with roofing, we were very proactive in that space because we knew we needed to do something different with the materials and work with manufacturers to develop test standards to to have benchmarks for people to be able to make choices for better products. State Farm first created the standards in the 1990s.
The head of the Central Illinois Regional Airport in Bloomington says the impact of Federal Transportation Department staff cuts is being felt in relations with airports. Airport director Carl Olsen says there have been a lot of retirements at the Federal Aviation Administration as workforce reductions loom. And in some instances we're finding where, where it's the airports that are kind of helping the new FA staff.
This is what you might want to consider in this situation. Olson says last year's aviation authorization bill included money for more air traffic controllers.
And an artist has connected the Bloomington Public Library to downtown Bloomington through her artwork. Delia Kerr Dunhart painted 15 sidewalk murals from the library to the McLean County Museum of History. She chose a circus theme.
We have some pink elephants holding tails. I wanted it to be like a fantasy type of circus. We have a fire breather. I've got a repeated character of a magic rabbit.
There will be a celebration for the murals at the library Saturday morning at 10. I'm Ben.