Area News

Amanda Crow (left) and Viola Blankenship (right) present to Mary Eisenbarth (center) a Relay for Life quilt that Crow, Blankenship and Guila Stone made for this year’s Relay for Life.

Critter Corner
All is well with the Homestead Critters at this time. The rains are keeping the Longhorn’s pasture lush and green and they seem to be enjoying life as they graze, take naps in the sunshine, settle down early in the evenings to rest, sleep  later in the mornings and take interest in things going on around them, namely us as we are outside doing chores.
The henhouse is still producing at least two eggs a day. We would like to give Blackie and Rhonda the run of the yard and pasture, but we are afraid they would wander out on the highway.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Thursday, June 19
• School board annual budget hearing, 5 p.m., unit office; and regular meeting, 5:15 p.m., unit office.
• The Vit-Em-In class potluck, 6 p.m., First United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall.
Saturday, June 21
• St. Elmo Community Clothes Closet at 214 N. Walnut, 9 a.m.-noon.
• Tasha Dial book signing, 10 a.m.-noon, St. Elmo Public Library.

The ExxonMobil Annuitants Club met on May 29 at Maverick Restaurant in Litchfield, with 23 members, including new member Wayne Buck of Carlinville, and three guests.
The pledge to the flag was given, followed by the meal prayer given by President Dean Black. After the buffet meal, Black welcomed everyone to the luncheon and meeting.
He asked all members who had served in the military to stand, and he thanked them for their service to our country and then read a poem, “Freedom Is Not Free.”