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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Thursday, February 7
• St. Elmo Business Association, noon, Mary Ann’s Restaurant.

• The Wheatland Unit of Home and Community Education, 1:30 p.m.
• The St. Elmo Women’s Civic Club, 7 p.m., St. Elmo Public Library. Valentine gifts for Friendship Manor will be prepared.
Saturday, February 9
• The Community Clothes Closet, 9 a.m.-noon, First United Methodist Church Parsonage.
• A Valentine Bazaar will be held from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the St. Elmo Christian Church. There will be more than 15 vendors with cash and carry items. There will be a drawing for various Valentine packages from vendors in the area.
There will be a bake sale and raffle, with proceeds to benefit Mark and Stormy Dilley for medical and travel expenses. Raffle tickets are $1 each or six for $5.
Also, there will be a drawing for a $75 Hilton gift certificate with two movie theater tickets and a couples’ massage at Serenity Therapeutic Massage (more than $200 value).
Tickets for this raffle are $5 each.
For more information, to purchase raffle tickets or to donate baked goods, contact: Kim Logue at 339-0611; Tracy Dilley Evans at 339-7393; Cindy Harnish at 292-4559; or Lisa Kelly at 292-8186.
Sunday, February 10
• Boy Scout Sunday – First United Methodist Church will welcome Pack #444 to the 10:35 a.m. worship service.
Monday, February 11
• The St. Elmo Lions Club, 6 p.m., Mary Ann’s Restaurant.
Tuesday, February 12
• The Avena Township Park Board, 6 p.m., St. Elmo Community Park Centennial Building.
• American Legion Post 420, 7 p.m., American Legion Home.
• The Fayette County Board, 7 p.m., Fayette County Courthouse, Vandalia.
Wednesday, February 13
• Reverb Youth, 6:30 p.m., St. Elmo Christian Church.
• Kids’ Klub, 7 p.m., First Church of God S.H.E.D.
Thursday, February 14
• Happy Valentine’s Day!
• Lunch Bunch, noon, Mary Ann’s Restaurant.
• The St. Elmo Library District Board, 7 p.m., St. Elmo Public Library.
• The Effingham Chapter 110 Order of the Eastern Star, 7:30 p.m., Effingham Masonic Temple.
County HCE
Delegates to represent Fayette County Home and Community Education at the Illinois Association of HCE Annual Conference – Panzi Blackwell and Debbie Segrest – were elected at the Jan. 28 meeting of the HCE Fayette County Board held at the Vandalia Extension Office. The conference will be held March 12-14 at the Effingham Keller Convention Center.
Other board members are planning to attend the conference, but only the delegates will vote at the business meeting.
The conference is open to anyone. Each unit chairman received a December IAHCE newsletter, which has all the information needed to register; registration should be made by the middle of February.
At the county board meeting, the date for the yearly Get-Acquainted date was confirmed.
It will be held on Thursday, April 11, at the Brownstown Golden Years Club. Registration will be at 9 a.m., and the potluck brunch will be at 9:30 a.m.
Those attending are asked to take a Make It, Bake It, Sew It or Grow It item for the auction, which helps raise the budget funds (those who don’t want to make something, can donate $5). Also, each unit is to take a $5 door prize.
The theme for 2013 is “The Many Hats of IAHCE,” so those attending can wear any type of hat, if they wish.
Past and present officers of County HCE meet twice a year. The spring meeting will be on Monday, March 25, at 11:15 a.m. at the Vandalia Denny’s Restaurant.
The county membership now is 116; Joyce Drees of the St. Elmo Unit died this January.
Several report forms that have to be submitted to the IAHCE by the end of January were completed.
Making a new Fayette County HCE banner was discussed. Debbie Swain reported that she had hoped that she would see more for the sewing day held Jan.17 at the Vandalia Extension Office.
Large tote bags were made by those attending.
A new county project has been added – old shoes of any type will be collected for two different mission projects.
Blackwell put a vase of small carnations on the table and also plates of cream puffs, cookies, pretzels and gave each one present a kiss – a chocolate one.
Those present were Flo Allen, Blackwell, Shirley Klitzing, Phyllis Pryor and Swain of the Sefton Unit, Dorothy Harpster of the St. Peter Unit, Anna Jean Rhodes of the St. Elmo Unit, Segrest and Anita Smith of the Vandalia Day Unit, Karen Hyde of the Wheatland Unit and Mary Smith of the Wright’s Corner Unit. All but Blackwell, Harpster, Hyde and Mary Smith went to lunch at Denny’s.
Lions Club
The annual pancake and sausage breakfast sponsored by the St. Elmo Lions Club is set for Saturday, March 9, at the Phillips Building.
Other club sponsored forthcoming dates to be announced later: the defensive driving program this spring and the Diabetes Awareness Program in May.
The St. Elmo Lions Club Caring and Sharing Program is making a donation to Fayette County Bank.
President Dave Maxey opened the Jan. 28 meeting held at Mary Ann’s Restaurant with the pledge of allegiance, and Pee Wee Denton gave the meal blessing. Others present were Don Crawford, Roger Fulk, Mark Lash, Bob Lowe, LeMar Marchman, Dee Newberry, Rex Reeder, Lloyd Stanley, Bob Wells and Randy Wolf.
Grand Canyon Trip
for Three Generations
During the week of Jan.14, three generations of Marchmans decided to tour Arizona. After some of the coldest weather in many years, they decided to go with a group to the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
LeMar of St. Elmo elected to ride the mule and, at age 86, was the oldest person to ride the mules. His son, Jay, who lives near Little Rock, Ark., and Jay’s son, Christopher, who attends the University of Missouri at Rolla, Mo., decided to hike down and back up.
 

Three generations of the Marchman family recently toured Arizona. From left to right are Christopher, Lemar and Jay Marchman

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