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  • St. Elmo News

    By Anna Jean Rhodes

    ANNOUNCEMENTS
    Wednesday, April 6
    • Wright’s Corner Unit of Home and Community Education, 1 p.m., Loudon Town House.

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  • Davis's phone call helps get Carrolls reunited

    After many years of being miles apart, a brother and his two sisters were recently reunited after a phone call made by Marie Davis of Vandalia.
    Charles Carroll, Brenda Carroll Davis and Retta Carroll Evans were reunited in West Frankfort at the home of Dean and Brenda Davis.
    On March 19, a retirement dinner was held at the Davis home to honor Brenda’s husband, Dean, who was to retire on April 1 from the Illinois Department of Corrections after 25 years.

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  • Golden Circle Menus

    Thursday, April 7 – Ham and beans, cole slaw, copper penny carrot salad, mandarin oranges w/bananas, two pieces of corn bread.
    Friday, April 8 – Tuna noodle casserole, lettuce salad w/tomatoes, three-bean salad, plums, biscuit.
    Monday, April 11 – Swiss steak, mashed potatoes, spinach, blushing pears, graham crackers, enriched bread.
    Tuesday, April 12 – Turkey tetrazzini, green peas, glazed carrots, Jello with fruit, wheat bread.  

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  • Frogtown News

    Attend Visitation
    Dane, Belinda and Mary Harpster of St. Peter attended the visitation of Mary’s niece, Jeanie Cook of Coffeen, on Friday.

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  • Brownstown-Sefton News

    Teach An Old Dog New Tricks…
    …(you can’t do it!) is an old adage that I have been trying to prove not true since last November (yes, last year).

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  • St. Elmo News

    ANNOUNCEMENTS
    Wednesday, March 30
    • There are no monthly activities scheduled for the fifth Wednesdays.

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  • Brownstown-Sefton News

    Sun Is Shining And Bluebells Are Up!
    …and it is officially spring (today anyway) and the computer is in the house.
    One of our official reporters, DeDe Diveley, who gives us the weekly river bottom report, reported seeing a baby red fox this week, running along as if something was after it.
    The “girls” (Anita, Blackie and Fuzzy, chickens) are really enjoying bugging, picking and scratching. They sing to us a lot and are keeping us in nice, large eggs. Sometimes there will be four in the pen. We’ve never figured that out yet.

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  • Frogtown News

    Birth
    Jamie and Emily Lotz of Effingham are the parents of a daughter, Aleece Marie, born on March 14, 2011. She weighed 6 pounds, 5 ounces, and was 19 ½ inches long. She is welcomed home by her brothers, Andrew, age 4, and Evan, age 2. Grandparents are Larry and Bev Lotz of St. Peter, and Jim and Rosie Gibbons of Edgewood.
    St. Peter Auxiliary
    The St. Peter American Legion Post #380 and the Auxiliary met on March 16 at 6:30 p.m. for their annual birthday supper.

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  • St. Elmo News

    ANNOUNCEMENTS
    Thursday, March 24
    • The St. Elmo Unit of Home and Community Education, 1:30 p.m., St. Elmo Public Library.
    Friday, March 25
    • Prairieland Pickers will perform at 10 a.m. at the Hillsboro Rehab and Health Care at 1300 E. Tremont, Hillsboro.
    • Prairieland Pickets will perform at 2:30 p.m. at the Tremont Ridge Assisted Living at 1200 E. Tremont, Hillsboro.
    Saturday, March 26
    • Clothes Closet, 9 a.m.-noon. Winter clothes sell for a $1 a bag.

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  • Brownstown-Sefton News

    By Panzi Blackwell

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