Area News

St. Peter Church
Sunday morning worship attendance was 207. The organist was the Rev. Alan Holtz.
Elders were Charlie Wachholz and Paul Reynolds.
Maundy Thursday service will be held on April 5 at 7 p.m. The Good Friday service will held on Friday, April 6, at 7 p.m. An Easter sunrise service will be at 6 a.m. The LYF will host a breakfast following the sunrise service.
Remember in Your Prayers
• Those with health concerns:
-Ann Dunaway
-Elijah Latin
-Barry Parker
-Gene Personett

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Wednesday, March 28
• The Grandparent breakfast for grades 4-6 will be held at the St. Elmo Elementary School.
• Royal Neighbors of America, 1 p.m., Phillips Building. The activity is to make Easter Bags for the nursing home.
Thursday, March 29
• Exxon/Mobil Annuitants, noon, Vandalia Ponderosa.
• Fayette County Leader’s Council, 7 p.m., Vandalia Extension Office.
• Fayette Water Co. meeting, 7 p.m., Avena Town Hall.
Saturday, March 31

Homestead Address Change…for  the Chicken Roost, That is
The girls, Blackie and Rhonda (hens), moved over the weekend from the little pen to the big chicken pen with an adjoining suite, complete with two roosts of different altitudes, rain-proof roof  (and drop-side-walls when needed), elevated water pan (to keep dirt out of their water when scratching for bugs) and their favorite nest for laying eggs, which is an old foot tub/bucket.
They both would rather use it than the nice plastic, pretty pink crate we had bought for them.  

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Thursday, March 22
• The St. Elmo Unit of Home and Community Education, 1:30 p.m., St. Elmo Public Library.
Sunday, March 25
• The Wolf Creek Cluster of United Methodist Churches will have a Lenten service at 4 p.m. at Fairview United Methodist Church on Avena Road. The speaker will be the Rev. John Eisfelder of St. Elmo First United Methodist Church.
Monday, March 26
• The Fayette County Board of Home and Community Education, 10 a.m., Fayette County Extension Office, Vandalia.