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On Friday and Saturday, Aug. 2 and 3,
Safe Ride will be available in Lincoln to those who need it.
Safe Ride is a free ride home
sponsored by the Healthy Communities Partnership.
"Safe Ride helps to keep our
streets safer on nights when children and families are more likely
to be celebrating away from home. Our hope is that the community
will remember that the service is available and use it when
necessary," said Angela Stoltzenburg, Healthy Communities
Partnership manager.
Safe Ride will also be available
during the Lincoln Art & Balloon Festival, Labor Day weekend, the
night before Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.
To receive a free ride home within
the city limits on any of these nights, call the cab company, A
Green Cab, at 732-8294.
Healthy Communities Partnership is a collaborative
organization comprised of dozens of community agencies. It is supported by the
Abraham Lincoln Healthcare Foundation. For more information and updates,
individuals should "like" Healthy Communities Partnership on Facebook.
 Upcoming
Logan County blood drives
To help ensure an adequate blood supply for
the region, the Central Illinois Community Blood Center is offering several
opportunities to donate blood in Logan County in early August.
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Monday, Aug 5, noon-6 p.m.
Lincoln Masonic Center
2022 N. Kickapoo, Lincoln
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Friday, Aug. 9, 9 a.m.-noon
Farmers Bank
130 S. Washington, Mount Pulaski
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Saturday,
Aug. 10, 8:30 a.m.-noon
Town and Country Bank
303 Pulaski, Lincoln
For your convenience, call Alexis
toll-free at 1-866-GIVE-BLD (1-866-448-3253), ext. 5158, to sign up
or schedule an appointment online at
www.bloodcenterimpact.org. Walk-ins are also welcome and truly
appreciated.
Central Illinois Community Blood
Center, a not-for-profit organization, is the provider of lifesaving
blood for 14 hospitals throughout central Illinois, including
Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital in Lincoln and Memorial Medical
Center and St. John’s Hospital in Springfield. CICBC is a division
of the Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center, which collects over
180,000 units of blood annually and serves 87 hospitals in Illinois,
Iowa, Missouri and Wisconsin.
Community
Action Senior Nutrition receives donation from Trinity Episcopal Church
Trinity Episcopal Church recently presented a
$1,250 donation to Community Action's Apple of My Heart Senior Nutrition
program. The Rev. Mark Evans presented the
donation to Jacob Sexton, Community Action's executive director, at
the Community Action Partnership corporate office in Lincoln.
The funds will be used to supply
meals for seniors in Logan and Mason counties who depend on the
nutritious, balanced meals provided by the program. The program
provides over 30,000 meals to local seniors each year.
According to the Rev. Evans,
members of the church were asked to suggest organizations they would
like to include in their outreach. Community Action's Senior
Nutrition program and Habitat for Humanity were both selected to be
local recipients of Trinity Episcopal's generosity.
The church also provided assistance
to a diocese in Peru that they have formed a relationship with over
the years, allowing them to spread their outreach globally as well
as locally.
If you or your organization would
like to donate to the Apple of My Heart Senior Nutrition, or any of
Community Action's other programs, call 217-732-2159.
Community Action Partnership of
Central Illinois provides programs and services in Logan, Mason,
DeWitt, Piatt, Menard and Fulton counties. For more information,
visit www.capcil.org.
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Chamber
partners with Elks to offer vets free balloon rides
The Lincoln/Logan County Chamber of Commerce
and the Lincoln Elks Veterans Committee are offering free tethered balloon
rides with free admission passes to veterans for the 2013 Lincoln Art &
Balloon Festival. For the free passes, veterans can stop
at the Elks Pro Shop between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. any day of the week,
at the Lincoln American Legion between 1 and 9 p.m. any day, and at
the chamber of commerce office between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Monday-Friday. Only 150 ride and admission passes are available, so
they will be distributed only as long as they last.
The 2012 festival was the first
year of the partnership between the chamber and the Elks to offer
free balloon rides for veterans in Logan County. George Lacefield,
chairman of the Elks Veterans Committee, along with Andi Hake,
executive director of the chamber of commerce, both wanted to
continue this partnership to honor our veterans.
"We are providing additional
locations for veterans to pick up the passes in hopes that this year
we have more people take advantage of this wonderful opportunity,"
said Hake. The Elks committee is donating all the tethered balloon
rides, and the chamber board of directors is donating the admission
passes to the festival, so veterans can have a great weekend of fun
virtually free.
"As a veteran myself, I truly value
what these men and women have done for our country and feel this is
just a small way to show our local veterans how much we appreciate
their service and sacrifice," said Lacefield about why he wants to
offer the free rides.
The passes are available to any
veteran in Logan County who has served in any branch of our armed
services.
Each veteran who comes to one of
the designated locations will receive one free weekend admission
pass to the Lincoln Art & Balloon Festival on Aug. 23-25. The
admission pass will get one veteran a wristband that will allow
access to the activities at the Logan County Airport both Friday and
Saturday. Veterans will also receive one free tethered balloon ride
pass good for one veteran to ride in a main attraction of the
weekend -- a hot air balloon. This year there will be two tethered
balloons, one being sponsored by local State Farm agents and the
other by the chamber of commerce.
Details on times of rides and a
schedule of activities during the weekend are available with the
Lincoln Art & Balloon Festival's new mobile app, so download it
today, or go to
www.lincolnillinois.com. Contact Andi Hake or Meghan Hough at
the chamber of commerce at 217-735-2385 if technology is not your
thing.
HSLC seeks foster homes for
special-needs kittens
The Humane Society of Logan
County has an immediate need for special, caring homes to be foster parents
for two adorable special-needs kittens. Ideally, there would be no other
pets in the house.
HSLC takes care of their health and
brings litter and food.For
more information, call 217-737-4042 or 217-648-2703.
Latham
United Methodist Church garage sale
LATHAM -- The Latham United
Methodist Church will host a huge garage sale Aug. 1-3. The times
are 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Aug. 1-2, and 8-noon
Saturday, Aug. 3.
There are more than 50 coats priced
to go. Lots of petite sizes are available. Many items are 25 cents
and 50 cents. On Saturday, there will be a buck-a-bag sale.
Lunch will be available on Thursday
and Friday, Aug. 1 and 2.
The church is at 241 Walnut St. in
Latham.
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