This week on Sunshine Strategies Radio, Jen McMillin reflects on peonies, neglected places, and what it really means to “tend” to a community — from democracy to downtowns to the people around us.

🌸 In this episode:
• Decatur breaks ground on the new Clubhouse at Scovill Acres for seniors
• A historic downtown Decatur building gets new life with planned apartments
• Logan County’s controversial $5 billion data center proposal moves into another heated phase
• Mount Pulaski teacher Tricia Campbell reaches the national top 5 in America’s Favorite Teacher
• Clinton Lake fishing season heats up in DeWitt County
• Central Illinois dust storms remind everyone to stay weather aware
• Normal West principal Angie Codron wins a 2026 Golden Apple Award
• Community events, conservation programs, and Mother’s Day weekend happenings across Central Illinois

This week’s episode is about roots, resilience, and showing up — because surviving isn’t the same as thriving.

☀ Sunshine Strategies Radio covers Macon, Piatt, DeWitt, Logan, McLean, and Christian Counties with family-friendly local news, civic engagement, and stories that matter.

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Links:

https://www.wandtv.com/news/new-clubhouse-at-scovill-acres-breaks-ground-expanding-services-for-decatur-seniors/article_32ad5cad-2a02-4602-a398-21a830eb38ea.html

https://www.foxillinois.com/news/local/no-new-moratorium-but-no-data-center-either-for-logan-county/article_2feb7f42-1597-45aa-af0e-404b38d028bd.html

https://www.wandtv.com/news/education/logan-county-teacher-in-top-5-for-national-americas-favorite-teacher-contest/article_e840188a-6eb0-4f15-abec-6fe5fea46a38.html

https://taylorvilledailynews.com/local-news/915214

https://www.wandtv.com/weather/dust-storm-warning-issued-across-parts-of-central-illinois/article_fbc66dde-4971-49ec-be85-d92ed2f2c917.html