Salute To Service

Saluting Active Service Members, Thank you!

Salute To Service: Marine Volunteer Firefighter Steven Bartlett

Today’s Salute to Service is to Marine Volunteer Firefighter Steven Bartlett. Bartlett joined the Marine Community Fire Protection District in 2006. Assistant Chief Steven Bartlett recently received the Humanitarian Service Award from...

Salute to Service: GFPD Firefighter Bill Smith

Today’s Salute to Service is Greenville Volunteer firefighter Bill Smith. Smith joined the Greenville Fire Protection District in 2004 and has gone through several programs and training through the GFPD, including being on...

Salute To Service: GFPD Firefighter Matt Wernle

Today's Salute to Service is Greenville Fire Protection District volunteer Firefighter Matt Wernle. Matt started in the Junior Firefighter program in 1998 and joined the full service in 2003. Over 20 years...

Salute To Service: Bond County Sheriff’s Department Courthouse Security Officer Don Perfetti

Today’s salute to service is Bond County Sheriff’s Department Courthouse Security Officer Don Perfetti. Perfetti has been in Law Enforcement for the past 31 years. His career started with the Illinois Department of Corrections,...

Salute To Service: IL Army National Guard & Volunteer Firefighter Jason Zeeb

Today’s Salute to Service is for Illinois Army National Guard member and Volunteer Firefighter Jason Zeeb. Zeeb joined the Greenville Fire Protection District in December of 2015, and worked through the Junior program...

Salute To Service: Michael Gouge, Bond County Sheriff’s Department Courthouse Security

Today’s Salute to Service is Michael Gouge, Bond County Sheriff’s Department Courthouse Security. Gouge has a 27 year career in law enforcement including 23 years with the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and 2 years as...

Salute To Service: Greenville Firefighter Mike Waugh

Today’s Salute to Service is Greenville Firefighter Mike Waugh. Waugh joined the GFPD in 1992. He’s been a part of the dive rescue team since 1994. Waugh has also served as...

Salute To Service: Greenville Volunteer Firefighter Travis Neer

Today’s Salute to Service is Greenville Volunteer Firefighter Travis Neer. Neer started with the Pocahontas Fire Protection District in 2001 and then switched to the Greenville Fire Protection District in 2004. Neer moved...

Salute to Service Ken Brown Bond County Sheriff’s Department Courthouse Security

Today’s Salute to Service Bond County Sheriff’s Department Ken Brown, Courthouse Security. Brown is a 1981 graduate from Mulberry Grove High school. Brown served as a Naval Seabee for 12 years before...

Salute to Service is Patrick Blankenship Courthouse Security Bond County Sherriff’s Department

Today’s Salute to Service is Patrick Blankenship Courthouse Security Bond County Sherriff’s Department.  Blankenship started his career in law enforcement in 1981 with the department of corrections.  Since 2010 Blankenship has worked as Bond...