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St. Elmo News

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Thursday, March 26
• Canceled-ExxonMobil Annuitants, noon meeting at Litchfield.
Sunday, March 29
• Canceled-First United Methodist Church services.
• Canceled -Wolf Creek Cluster Lenten service.
Monday, March 30
• Canceled – Fayette County Extension Foundation 7 p.m. meeting at Extension Office.
Wednesday, April 1
• Canceled – City council, 6 p.m., city hall.
• Canceled – Wright’s Corner Unit of Home and Community Education 1 p.m. meeting.
Thursday, April 2
• Canceled – St. Elmo Women’s Civic Club salad supper at St. Mary’s Catholic Church.
Other Cancellation concerns
• Church services may be canceled – check with your church.
• The Fayette County Extension Office in Vandalia closed until March 30; it may or may not reopen now.
• St. Elmo Public Library was closed until April 1; it may or may not reopen now.
• Wolf Creek Cluster UM Churches Lenten Service on April 5 are canceled.
• St. Elmo Lions Club has canceled all forthcoming events until further notice, including the sponsored Easter egg hunt scheduled for Saturday. April 11.
Historical Vandalia Inc.
The Historical Vandalia Inc. board of directors met the evening of March 16 in the Fayette County Museum, with the following present: President Steve Durbin, Donna Blair, Joyce Mueller and Mary Truitt of Vandalia, Marilyn Beyes of Smithboro and Anna Jean Rhodes of St. Elmo.
The museum had 63 visitors sign the register in February (96 in 2019 and 61 in 2018)
Weather permitting, the garden needs a lot of work done on it.
Possibly those stay-at-home people not wanting to be around many could volunteer to work in the garden – it would really help.
The school art show scheduled for April may have to be canceled because of the schools shutdown.
February donations to the museum include a 1950s patio dress; seven 1970s maxi dresses and fur coat; needle and thread case advertising county clerk; 8-inch-by-12-inch photo (1912?) of Ramsey Community Band; 5-inch-by-7-inch photo of 1911-1912 sixth and seventh grades of Ramsey (?) school; 1972 Ramsey phone book; 5-inch-by-7-inch tintype of Syfert (?) flour mill in Ramsey; advertising yard stick; B. F. Goodrich handbook from 1952; pocket screwdriver advertising Blankenship & Co. Automotive; three small 1950s metal drinking cups; 75 Needlecraft magazines from 1918-25; two McCalls needlework magazines; sock doll; dresser scarf; seven doilies; crocheted chemise bodice; and plastic bib.
Rhodes-Side Gleanings – Please Read About
Info Needed
The Fayette County Museum Board ready appreciates the “Learning about villages” article written by Linda Hanabarger for the March 12 Opinion page in The Leader-Union. It was on what the museum is doing.
The Fayette County Museum wants to honor towns and villages of Fayette County during the 2021 Bicentennial celebration.
Many of the old towns no longer exist, but their memory should.
If you are a relative, or friend, and know something interesting about an old community, please share that info. You can go to the museum or contact any of the board members – President Steve Durbin, Donna Blair, Joyce Mueller, Phil Shroyer, Mary Truitt of Vandalia, Marilyn Beyes of Smithboro, Anna Jean Rhodes of St. Elmo.
The museum plans to have information that can include pictures (and maybe items) on all the former and present communities in Fayette County in the upstairs area in 2021, but the project needs to be worked on now so it can be finished before 2021.
With most activities – organizations, sports, churches, etc.– canceled because of COVID-19, you have time to catch upon things to do at home, and the one thing you have time to do is reminiscence.
Please share info you remember with the Fayette County Museum as soon as possible, so we can have a wonderful upstairs display on all Fayette County in 2021.
St. Elmo Board of Education
The St. Elmo Board of Education met in regular session at 7:30 p.m. on March 16 in the unit office. The February 19 minutes, bills, financial reports and monthly administrative reports were approved.
Discussed were handrails in the high school gymnasium. Erick Somodi gave an update on the senior trip. A technical consulting services agreement with Hurst-Rosche Inc. for the upcoming roof projects was approved.
Also approved were the annual Illinois High School Association membership, the annual South East Purchasing cooperative agreement, an amendment to the superintendent’s contract and a letter of resignation from Amelia Garrard.
 

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