WEST FRANKFORT, IL (KFVS) - The Central Junior High School baseball and softball teams will be playing Thursday, August 25.

The CJHS baseball team will be playing at home vs. Harrisburg at 4:30 p.m. The softball team will also be playing at home vs. Harrisburg at 4:30 p.m.

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WEST FRANKFORT, IL (KFVS) - The All American Hearing of Southern Illinois Celebrity Golf Classic will take place at the Franklin County Country Club on Friday, August 19.

The golf classic will benefit the Starkey Hearing Foundation and will start at 1 p.m.

Major league baseball greats including Whitey Herzog, John Costello and Danny Cox will be there to greet golfers and share stories about life in the big leagues.

Also at the event will be several hearing impaired children from the area that will be fit with state of the art hearing instruments courtesy of the Starkey Hearing Foundation and All American Hearing of Southern Illinois.

A few slots for teams of four remain open for the classic. For more information, contact Karee Church at 618-889-6847 or Dr. Tina Lubsen at 618-519-9304.

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BENTON, IL (KFVS) - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has released their Rend Lake fishing report for the main lake and tributaries.

The fishing report includes:

Largemouth Bass

• Rating - good
• Bait of choice - worms, rattle traps, jig and trailer, spinner baits, square bill baits
• Suggested location - fish in shallow bays near brush cover and bushes. Fish around bridges and along the rocks. Fish being caught in 4-6 ft. of water on main lake
• Regulations - 14" minimum length limit, 6 daily creel limit. One fish daily creel limit in ponds 14" minimum length

Crappie

• Rating - excellent
• Bait of choice - fish with medium and small minnows. Quarter-ounce pink and white tub jigs
• Suggested location - fish are in deep water. Fish 8-15 ft, deep over brush and on edges of water.