Area News

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Thursday, May 31
• Exxon/Mobil Annuitants, noon, Vandalia Ponderosa.
Friday, June 1
• This is the entry deadline for all 4-H show projects
Monday, June 4
• The St. Elmo City Council, 7 p.m., Phillips Building.
Tuesday, June 5
• Friendly Neighbors, potluck at noon, Phillips Building.
• The Summer Reading Program starts at the St. Elmo Public Library.
• The Council of Catholic Women, 7 p.m., St. Mary’s Catholic Church Parish Hall.
Wednesday, June 6

Critter Corner
Certain Birds of a Feather…
…seem to be returning, or at least some of them are.
When I was a kid, seeing red-winged blackbirds was a common thing as we would be driving along the roads, but the last few years, we hadn’t been seeing them (although Dee Dee Diveley had mentioned she saw them in her neck of the woods).
We had never seen them on the Homestead since we moved here, about 27 years ago. Then, in the last two weeks, we have seen them along our lane.

The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Benjamin Mills Chapter, met for its monthly meeting on May 9 at The Glenwood in Greenville.
Special guests were sisters Jane Hubbert and Ann Hunter, long-time members of the Benjamin Mills Chapter and residents of The Glenwood.
Jennifer Dunkley from the Greenville campus of Kaskaskia College presented the program on literacy and discussed the Reading Link program, which she heads on the Greenville campus.
After the business meeting was adjourned, refreshments were served.

Visits Daughter
Belinda Harpster of St. Peter spent the weekend with her daughter, Mahala Harpster of Gray Summit, Mo.
On Friday evening, they went to Chesterfield and dined at the Old Spaghetti Factory and then shopped at Chesterfield Mall.
On Saturday, they shopped and visited area wineries.
On Sunday morning, Mahala took Belinda out for Mother’s Day brunch.
Birth
Adam and Molly Braun of Vandalia are the parents of a son, born on May 7, 2012.
He has been named Harrison Randal.