Area News

Makes First Solo Flight
Angel Cochran, a former resident of the Shobonier area, made her first solo flight last Wednesday. The flight was made from the airport at Carbondale to Leckrone Field in Salem.
Angel is in her first year of studies at SIU-Carbondale, and is enrolled in the aviation program.
Her future plans are to become a commercial airline pilot.

Death
Lifelong St. Peter resident Leonard Rubin died on Friday of last week. His funeral was held on Tuesday at St. Paul Lutheran Church.
St. Peter’s Lutheran Church
Worship attendance on Sunday morning was 172.
The organist was the Rev. Alan Holtz.
Christopher Greenwood was the acolyte.
Attending elders were Brien Guy and Paul Reynolds.
Remember in Your Prayers
• Those with health concerns:
-Zoe Hoehler
-Doris Wollin
• Those with long-term health concerns:
-Merle Crain

No *S.O.S. reports this week
The S.O.S. (*Signs of Spring) reports came to a halt this week.
Dave Arnold’s account of the premature mosquito attack was the last report. As Dave is Brownstown’s resident (an honor, and gift, passed on to him from his aunt, the late Ruby Goldsboro) we figured a bit of poetry and prose would be forthcoming about the experience, but thus far, we have heard no more from him. He is a soul brother, because he appreciates the good things in life, such as morel mushrooms, about which he once wrote a poem … and …

Attend Birthday Party
Dane and Belinda Harpster of St. Peter attended the 11th birthday party of their oldest granddaughter, Madison Eller, on Saturday at her home in Jackson, Mo. Those attending were: Ron, Diane and Anna Lou Eller, Carol Stein, Natalie Stein, Rhonda Hunter, Heidi Hunter and fiancé Austin, Dru Eller, and Owen and Aaron Harpster.
Dane and Belinda spent Thursday through Sunday with Owen and Aaron Harpster at the home of Mitch and Gretchen Harpster.
Birth