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City manager cooks up plans and food

After a long day managing city departments, implementing a strategic plan and fussing with budgets, it only takes a little food to relax Collinsville City Manager Robert Knabel. Knabel, 58, is amateur gourmet chef, a hobby few who interact with him at City Hall know about. "I've always been interested in cooking. It's therapeutic for me," Knabel said recently. "It allows me to focus on something different." Read the rest at http://www.shannonphilpott.com