Don’t Miss This: Township clerk recovering after kidney transplant

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▪ David Jacknewitz, a 65-year-old Fairview Heights resident who serves as Caseyville Township clerk, is recovering after having a kidney transplant in April. The kidney he got came from Judy Schmidt, 66, who also is from Fairview Heights. The two know each other well.

Jacknewitz’s kidney troubles started with a back injury in the 1970s.

By last summer, though, exhaustion forced him to retire from a career with the St. Clair County Probation Department. Doctors at Barnes-Jewish Hospital told him it was time to think about a transplant.

▪ With the year’s second quarter in the books, St. Clair County Board Chairman Mark Kern, a Democrat, has a large campaign cash lead over challenger Rodger Cook, a St. Libory Republican.

Kern has raised more than $75,000 during the first two quarters of the year. After expenses along with money previously raised, Kern had more than $79,000 in his campaign account at the end of the second quarter, according to State Board of Elections records.

▪ In the driver services facility, where motorists previously received a new license printed at the facility after any necessary vision, written or road tests, drivers instead receive a piece of paper that serves as a temporary license until a new one comes in the mail.

All of the metro-east driver services offices went to the central-issue process early in the state rollout, as the Secretary of State’s office started the rollout in the southern part of the state and worked its way north.

On Friday, the state was scheduled to complete its transition to centrally-issued driver’s licenses.

This story was originally published August 1, 2016 at 6:47 AM with the headline "Don’t Miss This: Township clerk recovering after kidney transplant."