Today's Features

Joshua James William Trivitt
James Trivitt and Dana Kirkland of St. Elmo are the parents of a boy born on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2010, at St. Mary’s Hospital in St. Louis.
He weighed 4 pounds, 7 ounces, and was 17 inches long. He was named Joshua James William Trivitt.
He has two brothers, 4-year-old Michael and 3-year-old Daniel,  and one sister, 1-year-old Danna.

Mike and Emma Verdeyen of Altamont are celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary on Oct. 31, 2010.  They were married at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Vandalia, by the Rev. James Schroeder. 
Parents of the couple are Esther and the late Loren Stine of Brownstown, and Henry and Dorothy Verdeyen of Altamont.  The couple has two daughters, Megan (Devin) Althoff of St. Joseph and Molly Verdeyen at home.
They also have one granddaughter, Loren Althoff.

Ronald and Mary Lou Price of Vandalia celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary by renewing their wedding vows at First Baptist Church of Vandalia, followed with a dinner hosted by their children.
Ronald and the former Mary Lou Dean were married on Nov. 4, 1960, in Quincy.
They have three children: April Homes, Angela Graves and Brian Price.
They have eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Betty Miller recently presented the Friends of the Brownstown Branch Library with a photo album that holds a part of Brownstown’s history, a part of her late husband’s legacy.
It is inscribed: “Presented to the Brownstown Branch Library, Aug. 24, 2010; Celebraton Memorial of the 125th Anniversary of Brownstown, June 24-25, 1995, Brownstown, Illinois,”  presented by the family of Mayor Jesse Miller, Betty, Julia and Ted.”