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Collection times, 9 a.m. to noon,
remain unchanged.
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For more information, see the original
announcement of the recycling collection:
Initial glass
recycling
 Mount
Pulaski hosts Spring Fling with Washington Street merchants
MOUNT PULASKI -- Downtown merchants in Mount
Pulaski are celebrating the arrival of spring with a Spring Fling shopping
and visiting event on Friday and Saturday. Businesses on Washington Street will all have open houses with door
prizes, drawings and, of course, tasty refreshments. Salt Creek
Attic will even offer a complimentary lunch.
Hours for the events
are Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday from 11 to 3.
Participating merchants are Saddie’s Secret Place, Salt Creek
Attic, Vintage One, Studio off the Square, Johnson's True Value, the
Furniture Doktor, Under Construction and Botanica Florists.
Donor
gifts make hospice patient wishes come true, help families cope with grief
A check representing collective donor gifts of
$8,332.21 from the Abraham Lincoln Healthcare Foundation's Dr. Wayne J.
Schall Hospice Fund was recently presented to the Memorial Home Services
nurses who work with Logan County patients and their families.
The Light Up A Life and memorial contributions from local donors
will help promote a bereavement support group and support the final
wishes of local hospice patients.
Memorial Home Services is a
not-for-profit affiliate of Memorial Health System and serves 14
central Illinois counties. Shelley Gray, R.N., and Jessica Spiedel,
R.N., (pictured above) commute daily from Girard and Chatham to work
with Logan and Mason County patients of Memorial Home Services. The
two nurses do so because they "love the families, pharmacies,
physicians and hospital in the Lincoln community."
As part of their daily routine, Gray and Spiedel visit hospice
patients in their homes to help make their final days as pain-free
and rewarding as possible. They also partner with ALMH case managers
and Dr. Mary Bretscher's chemotherapy clinic to ensure that the
transition to hospice care is as smooth as possible.
Gray says that the gifts passed along from the Abraham Lincoln
Healthcare Foundation will be used to support a new bereavement
support group, which meets in the ALMH Steinfort Room the third
Thursday of every month from 6 to 8 p.m.
Spiedel added that the gifts will also help them grant wishes for
local patients as part of the Memorial Home Services Hospice Sharing
Wishes Fund. Gray and Spiedel work with the Memorial Hospice team of
social workers, chaplains and volunteers to get to know the patients
and their desires, and then use the Sharing Wishes Fund to make
those wishes a reality. Wishes granted to Logan County patients have
included a ride in a hot-air balloon, a laptop needed to Skype with
far-away family members, a hearing device, and a haircut and special
dinner.
According Marty Ahrends, executive director of the Abraham
Lincoln Healthcare Foundation, ALMH started its own hospice program
in the late '80s and named it in memory of beloved physician Dr.
Wayne J. Schall. Even though the Schall Hospice at ALMH merged with
Visiting Nurses Association of Central Illinois in the mid-'90s, the
community continued to support the Schall Hospice Fund. More than
$522,000 from 6,047 donors has been donated to the fund since then.
In 2004 the local hospice advisory group recommended that Schall
funds purchase low-air-loss mattresses and other items that hospice
patients would use in their homes. Later they approved the
renovation of a hospice respite care room at the former ALMH
facility and voted to use funds for pain medications that keep local
hospice patients comfortable during their final months.
Gifts for the Schall Hospice Fund can be sent to the Abraham
Lincoln Healthcare Foundation, 200 Stahlhut Drive in Lincoln. For
more information, contact Ahrends at 605-5006 or visit
www.almh.org.
Lincoln
Heritage Museum named among top 30 university museums
The Lincoln Heritage Museum at Lincoln College
has been named as one of the 30 "most amazing university museums" in the
world, according to Best Colleges Online. Jennifer Carson, a representative of Best Colleges Online, noted in
her announcement to the Lincoln Heritage Museum that, in preparing
this recent list, the editors reviewed information on hundreds of
museums around the world and selected the 30 they deemed most
outstanding.
According to the Best Colleges Online website, the
Lincoln Heritage Museum was included because of the strength of its
collection and how it "preserves artifacts related to the life and
presidency of Abraham Lincoln." The editors for the site identified
the "objects from Lincoln's home, books and other personal
possessions of Lincoln, and a one-of-a-kind handmade campaign
banner" as some of the museum's most prominent attributes.
Ron Keller, director of the Lincoln Heritage Museum, commented
that this recognition is significant.
"One must consider that according to Lynn Marsden-Atlass,
secretary for the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries,
there are in the United States alone an estimated 3,000 college and
university museums. That number is surely tripled when accounting
for museums outside our nation's borders. That makes the
acknowledgment of our museum quite noteworthy," Keller said.
Anne Moseley, assistant director of the museum commented: "We are
honored to be among the many museums that have made an impact on the
students and visitors to our campus. We will continue this in the
new museum as we educate individuals on the life, the legacy and the
character of Abraham Lincoln. Our significance is recognized now.
Once we are in the new museum this fall, our impact and recognition
will be even greater."
The top 30 list includes American and international museums,
including the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and
Anthropology; the Harvard Museum of Natural History; the U.S. Naval
War College Museum; the Museum of Anthropology in British Columbia,
Canada; the Macquarie University Museum in Sydney, Australia; the
Beth Hatefutsoth Museum in Tel Aviv University, Israel; the Kyoto
Museum for World Peace, in Kyoto, Japan; the Grassi Museum fur
Musikinstrumente (Museum of Musical Instruments) at the University
of Leipzig, Germany; the Natural History Museum of Denmark at
University of Copenhagen, Denmark; and the Asia University Museum of
Art in Taipei, China. The full ranking of the 30 most amazing
university museums is available at
www.bestcollegesonline.org.
Best Colleges Online is an organization that surveys the nation's
top online schools and degree programs, and provides career how-to
guides, information about the benefits and advantages of online
degrees, and other information on universities around the world. The
editors regularly provide "top 10" rankings on many elements of
college offerings.
The Lincoln Heritage Museum is open 9 to 4 Monday through Friday,
and from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturdays. Admission is free.
Monthly electronics recycling
Habitat for Humanity of
Logan County will have its monthly electronics recycling collection on
Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon at the Habitat for Humanity warehouse, 915
Woodlawn Road. The collection is free of charge to the public. The following items will be accepted:
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Entertainment equipment, including
TVs, radios, stereo and game systems, game controls, VCR and DVD
players, and cameras.
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Computer equipment, including
laptop and desktop personal computers, hard drives, monitors,
keyboards, printers, scanners, cords and cables, CD-ROM, DVD,
Zip and tape drives.
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Small
business equipment, including phones, copiers, typewriters, fax
machines and calculators.
Small household and countertop
appliances will also be accepted, as well as aluminum, copper, brass
and stainless steel items.
Electronics are not to be left at
the site and are not collected outside of the hours of the
collection.
Additional information on the electronics
recycling is available through Habitat for Humanity of Logan County by
contacting the office at 217-732-6412 or visiting
www.habitatlogan.org.
Initial glass recycling
Logan County residents will
again have the opportunity to recycle glass containers through the
cooperative efforts of the Lincoln Woman's Club, the Logan County Joint
Solid Waste Agency, Verallia Saint-Gobain Containers and the Logan County
Fair Association. There will be a monthly collection the second Saturday of
each month from May through October. Glass will be collected from 9 a.m. to
noon this Saturday on the grounds of the Logan County Fair. Change of
location (posted May 10): Due to the motorcycle races, the glass
recycling collection May 11 has been relocated to the basketball
courts on the south end of the Logan County Fairgrounds. Recyclers
should use the Short 11th St entrance.Collections will be
canceled in the event of inclement weather or excessive heat. The
Logan County Joint Solid Waste Agency does not accept glass at any
of its recycling collection sites.
Only container glass will be
accepted for recycling, which means it originally held either a food
or beverage product. Clear glass as well as amber, green and blue
will be accepted. The glass recycling program will not accept light
bulbs or fluorescent lights, window glass, mirrors, ceramics,
chinaware or CorningWare items.
Residents are asked to thoroughly
rinse all glass containers. Lids as well as metal or plastic rings
around the neck area of the container should be removed. Paper
labels can be left on the containers.
Individuals are asked to follow the
guidelines outlined, as one ceramic piece, one light bulb, or a
metal neck ring or lid can ruin an entire load of glass being
processed for recycling. The recycling program reserves the right to
reject any glass not meeting preparation guidelines.
While glass collection is offered
on a limited basis, it does have a positive impact in removing yet
another item from the waste stream. Glass is not biodegradable,
meaning it will not decompose over time. Glass can be recycled
repeatedly. The local glass recycling program has collected over 187
tons of glass since the program's inception in 2004.
Logan County residents expressed the
desire to recycle glass, and the glass recycling program is the
direct response of local government, area businesses and civic
organizations to support local recycling efforts.
For more information on local
recycling activities, call 732-9636 or visit
www.co.logan.il.us and
select "Joint Solid Waste Agency." For the most up-to-date
information on the agency and collection schedules, "like" the Logan
County Joint Solid Waste Agency on Facebook.
Elkhart
townwide yard sales
ELKHART -- In an annual
event, there will be garage sales townwide this weekend in the village of
Elkhart. Hours are 2-7 p.m. Friday and 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday. Many houses
in the village will host sales, and most are multiple-family sales. Items being sold include children's and adult clothes, toys, sports
equipment, home décor, furniture, appliances, pull-behind trailer,
and more.
Hudson's Talk of the Town restaurant will be open for
lunch and dinner to accommodate shoppers.
Maps will be available at 330 Kennedy Road and at the Talk of the
Town.
For more information, see
https://www.facebook.com/
events/446885158732455/?fref=ts.
This
year's Railsplitting Festival canceled
The Abraham Lincoln National Railsplitting
Festival will not be held this year. The Logan Railsplitting Association met
Monday evening and voted to take a year off. The decision by the association
not to have the festival this year was a difficult one. The group will,
however, put the festival on again in September 2014. Watch for more
information after the first of the year. The Civil War Ball will go on this year, and the public is
encouraged to attend on Sept. 20. The organizers plan to make some
additions to the evening, and more information on the event will be
coming soon.
The Logan Railsplitting Association thanks everyone
for their past support of the festival and looks forward to having
the festival again in 2014.
"We just needed to take a year off to refocus," said Darlene
Begolka, association president, in making the announcement.
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Together
for Lincoln pork chop dinner
Together for Lincoln will have its annual
butterfly pork chop dinner fundraiser on Thursday, May 16, from 4 to 7 p.m.
in the IGA parking lot. In addition to a butterfly pork chop, the meal
includes au gratin potatoes, green beans and a dinner roll. Tickets are $8. Tickets may be purchased in advance at the Jefferson
Street Christian Church office during regular office hours
Mondays-Thursdays or on-site the day of the dinner.
All proceeds
will go to support projects at the annual Together for Lincoln
service project day on Sunday, Sept. 22.
Lincoln
Writer's Club will meet May 14
Lincoln Writer's Club will
meet Tuesday, May 14, at 6:30 p.m. in the Alumni Room of the student center
at Lincoln College. Suggested topics:
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Write a poem on a page of
newspaper. Incorporate what you see into your poem.
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How could a coconut, a mask and a
dictionary help you off a desert island?
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More home
remedies.
For more information, call
732-2723.
All are welcome.
Logan
County Arts presents 'Functional and Fine Art: Lincoln Community High School
Textiles, Woods, Metals and Fine Art'
An exhibit of works by Lincoln Community High
School students in textiles, woods, metals and fine art will be on view at
the Lincoln Art Institute in downtown Lincoln from May 9 through May 26. The
show opens Thursday, May 9, at 5 p.m. and is free and open to the public. This event will feature various works by current students attending
Lincoln Community High School and includes works that are both
functional and creative in a variety of media.
Refreshments will
be served at the opening, in addition to a bake sale with the
proceeds going to support Logan County Arts, which serves artists
and the community throughout Logan County.
The Lincoln Art Institute hosts Logan County Arts with the goal
of expanding awareness of arts with a focus on Logan County.
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Lincoln Art Institute
Address: 112 S. McLean, Lincoln, IL 62656
Contact: Toby Prange, curator,
contact@logancountyarts.org
Phone: 217-651-8355
Website:
www.logancountyarts.org
Hours: Saturdays 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
or by appointment
Hartsburg-Emden High School Alumni Banquet will be June 8
HARTSBURG-EMDEN -- The 86th annual Hartsburg-Emden High School Alumni
Banquet will begin at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, June 8, at the Knights of Columbus Hall in
Lincoln. Invitations to the banquet will be sent out the first week of May.
Anyone who did not receive an invitation but would like to attend
the banquet may send a request via email to Ron Spencer at
coach_spencer@hotmail.com,
or you may reach him on his cellphone at 309-838-0360.
Anniversary classes being honored this year are 1933, 1938, 1943,
1948, 1953, 1958, 1963, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998,
2003, 2008 and the senior Class of 2013.
The winner of the "Wall of Fame" award will be selected and
announced at the banquet. This year's award will be represented in
the category of "Athletics/Sports."
Please mail nomination letters to Ron Spencer, 8923 Blooming
Grove Road, Bloomington, IL 61705.
Due to the rising costs of the banquet, the alumni association
will accept donations to help out with the cost of the event and to
continue funding the Alumni Scholarship. Donations are payable to
the Hartem Alumni Association and may be sent to Greg Phillips, 208
Market St., Emden, IL 62635.
Officers of the alumni association for 2013 are Chris Boerma,
president; Ron Spencer, vice president; Loretta Hellman, secretary;
Greg Phillips, treasurer; and Kay Mullins and Verna Lessen,
corresponding secretaries.
Logan
County Relay to celebrate American Cancer Society's 100th year
The Logan County Relay For Life is joining all
of America in celebrating 100 years of saving lives and creating more
birthdays through the efforts and research of the American Cancer Society,
begun in 1913. Formerly the word cancer was not spoken, so almost all
patients with this dreadful disease were lost. On Saturday, May 18, the Logan County
Relay For Life teams will sell $10 luminaria bags at Lincoln IGA
from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. The luminaria will also be available at the
annual Relay For Life Breakfast at Lincoln College on Sunday, May
19, from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. On Wednesday, May 22, these luminaria
will draw attention to the 100th anniversary, as all of those
purchased will be placed on the front porch of each participating
home and lit at sundown to show support in helping to stamp out this
disease in this century.
The luminaria purchased for this celebration will not be relit at
the Relay For Life event June 14-15 at Lincoln College.
For more information, contact Bill Post, 732-7564; Tonita
Reifsteck, 855-1645; or Nicole Lee, 828-1100.
Route
66 will anchor weekend of activities in Logan County
Route 66 will be the centerpiece for a diverse series of activities taking
place in Logan County on the weekend of June 7-9, Friday-Sunday.
Events will range from garage sales, auto racing and an electric
car show to art exhibits and the Illinois Route 66 Hall of Fame
Banquet.
Festivities will begin with the annual Route 66 Garage Sale,
which will take place from 7 a.m. until dusk Friday, Saturday and
Sunday in Lincoln.
This year, vendors can rent indoor or outdoor space at the VFW,
915 Fifth St., or flea market space at The Mill, 738 S. Washington
St. For reservations at the VFW, or general information about the
garage sales, call Andrea Dykman at 217-735-0294. The Logan County
Tourism Bureau at 217-732-8687 is taking reservations for spaces at
The Mill.
For the first time, Logan County Outreach, a community betterment
organization, and Lincoln Printers will host the Route 66 Garage
Sale.
Private garage sales will also take place throughout the
community. Those planners are urged to use traditional news and
social media outlets to advertise their sales.
On Friday night, race fans can watch the POWRi competition at
Lincoln Speedway on the Logan County Fairgrounds. Gates open at 3
p.m., with hot laps at 6:30 p.m. and racing at 7 p.m.
The Mill 2nd Saturday Flea Market on June 8 is the premiere event
for a series of flea markets there on the second Saturday of each
month through October. The flea market will run from 10 a.m. until 5
p.m.
The Lincoln Art Institute gallery at 112 S. McLean St. in
downtown Lincoln will be open on Saturday from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m.
Main Street Lincoln will sponsor a PLUS 5K run and health fair in
downtown Lincoln on Saturday.
Also on Saturday, an Electric Vehicle Cruise-In will take place
from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. along the original Mother Road in historic
downtown Atlanta. The free public cruise-in is sponsored by the
Atlanta Betterment Fund.
After it was commissioned in 1926, Route 66 was responsible for a
huge increase in automobile traffic that led to the need for
businesses to serve the traveling public. Among these new businesses
were service stations.
Now, Route 66 is poised to help create the next big
transportation infrastructure -- charging stations for electric
vehicles. Atlanta is interested in helping other Route 66
communities discover how to better serve the traveling public that
will be searching for an electric plug-in instead of a gas pump.
The June 8 Electric Vehicle Cruise-in, Illinois' first, will
display some cool EV cars and offer a chance to learn more about how
the Mother Road is working to give birth to a new travel
infrastructure.
All electric and hybrid cars are invited to participate in the
cruise-in. The event will also feature vintage music, great food, a
50-50 drawing and hourly drawings.
Atlanta offers two Level 2 Eaton charging stations, available by
advance reservation at no fee. There are also 16 Level 1 charging
stations available at no cost on a first-come, first-served basis.
For more information about the cruise-in, or to make reservations
to use the Level 2 charger, contact Bill Thomas of the Atlanta
Betterment Fund at 217-648-5077 or
wthomas@teleologic.net.
Atlanta will also exhibit the results of its first Rt. 66
Reinterpreted Art Project from May 1 through Aug. 13.
Modeled on Chicago's "Cows on Parade" exhibit, the Rt. 66
Reinterpreted Art Project presented artists the opportunity to
create their own take on one of the 20th century's most iconic and
recognizable symbols, the U.S. Route 66 highway shield.
Artists were provided a blank 2-by-2-foot wooden cutout of the
Route 66 highway shield, painted white, which then became their
personal canvas. Each shield was required to incorporate the text
"U.S. 66," but otherwise the design was left to each artist's
imagination.
The Atlanta Betterment Fund, sponsor of the project, selected 10
shields as finalists. Visitors can vote on their favorites, and
those with the most votes will be named winners of the contest. At
the conclusion of the project, the five winning shields, along with
the names of the artists who created them, will be displayed on a
permanent basis in the Atlanta Rt. 66 Park. For more information,
contact Bill Thomas at the telephone number or email address above.
The annual Route 66 Association of Illinois Motor Tour will pass
through Logan County on Saturday, June 8. Many of the participants
will stay overnight Saturday before continuing the tour on Sunday.
The Route 66 Association Hall of Fame Banquet will take place
Saturday evening at Lincoln College. Advance reservations are
required for the banquet. For more information about either the
banquet or the motor tour, visit the Route 66 Association of
Illinois at il66assoc.org.
Atlanta Rt. 66 Cruise-In May 11
ATLANTA -- Mark your calendar now and plan to attend the Atlanta Rt. 66
Cruise-In on Saturday, May 11, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Enjoy classic cars,
vintage music, great food, a 50-50 drawing, hourly drawings and more -- all
along an original alignment of the Mother Road itself in downtown Atlanta.
All area car club members and anyone with a great old car they want
to display are invited to attend. Stop by the registration table to
be included in the hourly drawings. The first 50 registrants will
receive a free Atlanta Rt. 66 Cruise-In dash plaque.
While in
town, visitors can step into the Palms Grill Café for a piece of
blue-ribbon homemade pie, tour the J.H. Hawes Grain Elevator Museum,
get their pictures taken with the Bunyon Giant, pick up souvenirs at
the Gunnar Mast Trading Post or handcrafted items at the Arch Street
Artisans shop, have a cheeseburger at Chubby's, visit the Atlanta
Museum, enjoy a cold one at Phanny's or the Korner, then stroll
around and enjoy the assembled cruise-in cars.
The Atlanta Rt. 66 Cruise-In is sponsored by the Atlanta
Betterment Fund.
For more information, phone 217-648-5077 or email
wthomas@teleologic.net.
The next cruise-in will take place on Saturday, June 8, and will be
Illinois' first Electric Vehicle Cruise-In. Visitors will definitely want to
come to downtown Atlanta that day to see the variety of electric and
electric hybrid cars that will be on hand.
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