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Peoria Planning Commission chair headed to Pittsburgh to watch sibling in critical NFL game

Brother is punter for win-or-go-home Steelers

Peoria Planning Commission Chair Joysaphine Waitman-Powell and her brother Corliss Waitman grew up in a very athletic household.

Their father laid the ground work, playing professional basketball overseas and was an MVP in the Netherlands in 1989.

Their mother was a runner. In high school, the two siblings, and their younger sister, Sahilee, ran track together.

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