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  • Rotary's Christmas Parade is Saturday

    Santa Claus will be welcomed into Vandalia this Saturday as he will participate in the annual Vandalia Rotary Christmas Parade.

    The parade begins at 10 a.m. at the Fayette County Courthouse parking lot and travels east on Gallatin Street to Fourth Street, where it turns south and disbands at the First National Bank parking lot.

    Santa, however, will continue to Lincoln Park, where he will be available to talk with children in the park’s gazebo from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.

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  • Olde Tyme Christmas
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  • Brownstown Drug Seminar

    Brownstown Police Chief Ted Miller (below) gave a brief seminar last Monday evening to educate local residents about current drug trends. Miller shows some of the different types of apparatus used to smoke various types of drugs.

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  • St. Elmo News

    ANNOUNCEMENTS
    Thursday, Nov. 24
    • Happy Thanksgiving!
    Sunday, Nov. 27
    • Wolf Creek Cluster of United Methodist Churches will have an Advent service at 3 p.m. at Fairview United Methodist Church, which is handicapped accessible.
    Monday, Nov. 28
    • Monday is the last day to make reservations for the Royal Neighbors of America Christmas dinner, which will be held at noon on Saturday, Dec. 3, at the First Church of God S.H.E.D.
    Those planning to attend need to call Della Stewart at 829-3394 or Irene Reed at 829-5156.

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  • Woman's Club Winner

    The winner of the GFWC Vandalia Woman's Club drawing, Candy Sivia, receives a County Market gift certificate from club member Peg Dees. The club uses the funds raised through this and other activities for local philanthropic projects.

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  • Cages Donates to Relay for Life

    Dave King (left) and David Paulding (right) of Cages in Vandalia present to Dave Rickman of Fayette County Relay for Life a donation of $919.

    The donation represented the proceeds from Cages' third annual Labor Day Bike Show.

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  • Bowlers Make Donation

    Marie Davis of Vandalia and Larry Earnest, owner of Vandalia Bowl, held a nine-pin, no-tap tournament on Oct. 23 to raise funds for digital mammography equipment at Fayette County Hospital.

    The organizers raised $438 for the equipment, and (above) they presented the proceeds to Marci Barth, chief nursing officer at the hospital. Winning the tournament was the team of Marie Davis, Jeanette Spence, Sam Lovall and Debbie Lovall. Finishing second was the team of Keith and Fran Cole, John Swain and Curt Haas.

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  • Monday Morning Fire

    Joe Patterson and Lucas Emerick of the Vandalia Fire Department are silhouetted as they prepare to fight a blaze that destroyed a storage building on the former Schultz Orchard property just west of Shobonier.

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  • Remembering a Friend

    A large crowd turned out last Thursday evening for the inaugural memorial walk in honor of Tammy Vosholler.

    The memorial walk on the Vandalia Community High School track was held on the one-year anniversary of Tammy's death. Funds raised through the event, which included dinner and the sale of various items to memorialize the teen, go to a scholarship fund in her name. Organizers, which include Tammy's mother, Mitzie, hope to make the walk an annual event.

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  • Regional superintendents getting paid

    After working for nearly five months without being paid, Julie Wollerman is looking forward to seeing a check with her name on it.
    It’s scheduled to arrive next week.
    “There were times I wondered how to go forward,” said Wollerman, the regional superintendent of schools for Bond, Fayette and Effingham counties. “But I never wavered on continuing to provide the services we had contracted to do. You just do what you have to do.”

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