CARBONDALE, IL (KFVS) - Four Southern Illinois students represented Egyptian Electric Cooperative in Washington, D.C. during the annual "Youth to Washington" tour June 15-22.

Matt Huff of Coulterville, Nina McLernon of Carbondale, Matthew Rehmer of Lenzburg, and Collin Smith of Pinckneyville were representing the company. The event was sponsored by the electric and telephone cooperatives of Illinois since the late 1950s, is an introduction to our democratic form of government and cooperatives for rural youth.

The students met with Congressman Jerry Costello and were among 75 rural Illinois youth leaders selected for the trip. The Illinois students joined more than 1,500 young leaders from across the country.

CARBONDALE, IL (KFVS) - A 90-year-old veteran from Jefferson County, Illinois came out to see the B-29 bomber he flew in World War II.

Evertt Atkinson welcomed back one of the Commemorative Air Force's most rare and valuable airplanes, the FIFI B‐29 Superfortress. Atkinson flew FiFi and several other planes during WWII.

FIFI is one of only a few remaining B‐29s in the world, and the only one still flying.

David Oliver, 30, is the current aircraft commander of FiFi. By the time David went off to college he was a flight instructor teaching fellow students how to fly. His senior year he was selected as captain of the Southern Illinois University aerobatic team.