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Today's Features

  • Brownstown-Sefton News

    Farewell to Saundra, A Special Friend
    Saundra Motycka-Helm, a faithful, loyal and caring friend to many, left us to take her place in Heaven on Saturday, April 8, leaving a void in our lives. As a young woman, she chose to care for others and made it her life’s work doing so.
    Saundra became a registered nurse, but she went beyond caring for others’ physical well being, as she went the extra mile, in ministering to others’ heartbreaks, struggles and problems, emotional and otherwise.

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  • Frogtown News

    Weekend Visitors
    Mitch, Gretchen, Owen, Aaron and Henry Harpster of Jackson, Mo., spent the weekend with Dane and Belinda Harpster of St. Peter. Ben, Amanda, Madison, and Dru Eller of Jackson, Mo., visited them on Saturday. On Sunday evening, Nathan, Mahala and Harper Jacquin joined them for dinner. Jan Jameson also stopped in for a visit.
    Confirmation
    Upon completing adult instruction classes, David Henderson, Angela Mace, and Brian and Aime Sigrist were confirmed during Sunday’s service at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church.

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  • St. Elmo News

    ANNOUNCEMENTS
    Saturday, April 22
    • Earth Day – St. Elmo Community Park Cleanup Day. Volunteers are welcome. Snacks and bottled water will be provided. For more info, see the park article in the St. Elmo News.
    Sunday, April 23
    • Following the 10:35 a.m. worship service at the First United Methodist Church, there will be a Birthday Lunch and Dessert Auction in the Fellowship Hall. Proceeds go to camping and youth funds.
    • Lynn Reznick art show, 1-4 p.m., upstairs in Fayette County Museum, Vandalia.

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  • Ann Stock is speaker at fourth Lenten Luncheon

    Ann Stock of Mother of Dolors Catholic Church spoke at the fourth Lenten Luncheon held by the Vandalia Ministerial Alliance, held at Mother of Dolors.

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  • Brownstown-Sefton News

    Cogburn Rooster Busy Bugging
    Cogburn, the banty Homestead rooster, who has usually crowed whenever we drive in (supposedly to let the other critters know we have returned), failed to do so yesterday. Checking to see what was going on, we saw that he was busy scratching in the dirt, obviously doing some early-in-the-season bugging, to please his ladies, Blackie and Rhonda (hens) with a surprise treat.

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  • Frogtown News

    Attend Birthday Party
    Dane and Belinda Harpster attended the fifth birthday party of grandson Owen Harpster in Jackson, Mo., on Saturday. Others attending were: Mitch, Gretchen, Aaron and Henry Harpster, Natalie Stein, Carolyn Stein, Heidi Crowe, Cleve and Rhonda Hunter, Tom, Patti and Brandon Spitzmiller, and Ben, Amanda, Madison and Dru Eller.
    Confirmation

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  • St. Elmo News

    ANNOUNCEMENTS
    Thursday, April 13
    • First day of school spring break.
    • Fayette County Extension Workshop sponsored by the Fayette County HCE and U of I Extension for 4-H ages 8-18, 9-11 a.m., Vandalia Extension Office.
    • Fayette County Schools Annual Art Show starts this Thursday in the upstairs on the Fayette County Museum, Vandalia. It runs through Tuesday, April 18. The museum is open from 9:30-4 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and will be open this Sunday from 2-4 p.m.
    • Lunch Bunch, noon, Mary Ann’s Restaurant.

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  • Birth

    Brody Michael Gould
    Travis and Lauren Gould of Collinsville are the parents of a boy born on Feb. 28, 2017.

    Brody Michael weighed 6 pounds, 14 ounces, and was 20 inches long.
    Grandparents are Ron and Tena Gould, and John Crocks and Shelley Crocks.
    Great-grandparents are Mary McFarland, Eddie and Ronni Haynes, Becky Barnes, Dorothy Crocks and the late Cathy Haynes.

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  • Dickhut-Frazee

    Anna Dickhut of Camp Point and Joshua Frazee of Shobonier have announced their engagement and upcoming marriage.
    The future bride is the daughter of Monte and Karen Dickhut of Camp Point.

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  • Staff – 60 years

    Jim and Joyce Staff of Vandalia will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on April 14.

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