Today's Features

By Anna Jean Rhodes

Last week-Adrian Curley’s story began with his birth mother, Janet, giving him up for adoption…because of her love for him,  And of his adoptive mother’s (Orla Jo)  efforts to help him in his quest to find his birth mother …because of her love for him.
Although all adoption records seemed to be lost to him, Adrian, with the help of his adoptive mother, found his birth mother, Janet.   Janet wrote a poem as she remembered "The first time I saw you through a window’ and telling him good-bye," she thought, forever.

Daria Caroline Murray
Dustin and Joleen Murray of Vandalia are the parents of a girl born at 10:22 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010, at Greenville Regional Hospital in Greenville.
She weighed 9 pounds, 10 ounces, and was 21 inches long. She was named Daria Caroline.
She has three brothers, 8-year-old Drake, 8-year-old Dagon and 6-year-old Jayce, and two sisters, 5-year-old Jalyn and 2-year-old Joselyn.
Grandparents are Dennis and Kathy Hall, and Dave Murray, all of Vandalia, and Rita and Darrell McCammack of Brownstown.

Four generations of the Yordy family are pictured here. From left to right are: Matthew Dooly of rural Smithboro, father; Peggy Yordy, of Eureka, great-grandmother, holding Grace Abigail Dooly, 2 months old; and Linda Dooly of rural Mulberry Grove, grandmother.