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OK, that worked, HOORAY!
But it caused another problem. Not sure why
The first line of the tpl file I had inserted <center><h4><{$block.title}></h4></center> so that it would display the title of the item.
the next line is your block image, modified as
<img src="<{$block.item_image}>" alt="" width="100" height="100" align="left" style="padding:5px;"/>
So now it displays the image correctly, and the beginning text of the article, but it stopped showing the Title. Now sure why that's happening