The Hawgs advanced to the title game by upending the previously-unbeaten Buffalo Ridge Wildcats 26-19 on Saturday, July 16 to win their fifth Southern Plains Football League (SPFL) Championship. The Skallywags, a semi-pro football team, represented the National Nineman Football League.
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The Hawgs are cosidered “prime pork” following their 2016 National Championship title win over the Salem (Oregon) Skallywags 45-20 in the Nine-Man National Championship Football Series game played in Albany, Oregon on Saturday, July 30. And the Hawgs, did not disappoint, blanking the Tri-State Buffalos, 37-0. Mountain Lake area pigskin aficionados had the opportunity to catch the South Central Hawgs adult nine-man full-contact amateur football team in their regular season opening game this past Saturday, April 29 at Munson Field. Humphrey was also a photographer, a nature artist and a flower and vegetable gardener.Email South Central Hawgs open 2017 regular season at Mountain Lake’s Munson Field with a roast of the Buffalos More: Nickey's Southern Style Kitchen on South Grand closes and a music student at Western Illinois University when she met her future husband. Iona Humphrey was a native of Kewanee, Ill. The mom-and-pop operation eschews checkout scanners and a luncheonette inside the store is popular with noon-time regulars. They were awesome people, really down to earth."
"I'll find it hard to go in there (on visits back to Springfield)," Cutler admitted, "with Henry and Iona gone.
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They were always so good to all of us in so many ways."Ĭutler said she still uses "produce tricks" Henry and Iona taught her about how to pick a pineapple or how to cut a watermelon properly. "She was always positive and always smiling and always had a kind word for everybody.
There were restaurants and smaller stores that brought produce from Humphrey's for their places and Iona was the one who always dealt with them. "Some of my fondest childhood memories are Humphrey's Market and their family and our family was intertwined with them."Ĭutler called Iona Humphrey "a dynamo. "I was a junior (at Ursuline Academy) when I started working there," said Cutler, 61, who now lives in Arlington Heights where she works for the Clerics of St. Karen Cutler said her parents, John and Dorothy Cutler, ran an open-air produce market for the Humphreys on Dirksen Parkway.Ĭutler and her siblings, Kathy, John and Jim, all worked at the 15th Street store. "It's a great Springfield family and I'm so glad they were so committed to Ward 2." "They were always supportive of me and the things I was trying to do in terms of rebuilding the ward. "I was always appreciative and impressed by the fact that (they kept their business) in Ward 2," said Simpson, who still shops at Humphrey's.