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  • Community Calendar-May 12, 2011

    Thursday, May 12

    ✔ TOPS IL 2490 will meet from 9:30-10:30 a.m. at First Baptist Church in Ramsey. Weigh-in is from 9-9:30 a.m. For more information, contact Dovie Heaton-Bergin at 283-1729.
    ✔ The building trades class at the Okaw Area Vocational Center is holding an open house at the home it built this year at 1 Mark Drive, located north of Jefferson Street in Vandalia, from 9:30-11:30 a.m. and 12:30-2:15 p.m.

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  • Pat Rhodes is active in local projects, causes

    It might seem that when she moved to Vandalia four years ago with her husband, Pat Rhodes hit the ground running and doing for others.

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  • FAYCO fighting state cuts

    As Illinois municipalities fight to retain state income tax, a local entity is also battling proposed cuts by the state government.
    Officials at FAYCO Enterprises, which has as its mission “to integrate people with disabilities and other life issues into the community and enrich their quality of life with choice and independence,” are lobbying against about $115 million in proposed cuts to community services in the state.

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  • County makes another fund transfer for payroll

    With barely enough members on hand for a quorum, the Fayette County Board approved on Tuesday another fund transfer to ensure that the county could meet payroll.
    Eight of the board’s 13 current members were present for the meeting, which included a transfer of $250,000 from the county’s capital improvement fund to the general fund.
    “We don’t actually need it right now, but we’re close,” board Chairman Steve Knebel told board members.

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  • Band Parents' ice cream social is Thursday

    The Vandalia Junior High School spring band concert will be held at 7 p.m. in the VJHS gym.

    After the concert, the Vandalia Band Parents will hold its inaugural ice cream social in the VJHS cafeteria.

    The cost for a half pint of ice cream is $3, with chocolate, vanilla, strawberry cheesecake, cookies and cream, cookie dough and s'mores.

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  • Building Trades house on display next week

    The class built by this year's building trades class at the Okaw Area Vocational Center will be on display for the public next week.

    The house, located at 1 Mark Drive, off of Jefferson Street in Vandalia, will be open to the public at the following times:

    • May 9-13  9:30-11:30 a.m. and 12:30-2:15 p.m.

    • May 13  4-8 p.m.

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  • Kaskaskia College News

     KC receives financial reporting award
    Kaskaskia College announced this week that for the third straight year, the college has been awarded the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting by the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA) for its comprehensive annual financial report (CAFR).

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  • Elmo Theater Restoration Continues
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  • Birthday

    Miles Filer
    Miles Filer of Vandalia will celebrate his 90th birthday on May 13,  with a family reunion.


    Cards may be sent to him at: RR 2, Box 199, Vandalia, Ill. 62471.
    Friends may drop by his home in Pittsburg Township, nine miles southwest of Vandalia on Carlyle Road, on Saturday, May 14, in the afternoon to wish him a happy birthday. Cake and beverages will be served.

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  • Engagement

    Brittany Miller and Donald Warren have announced their engagement and upcoming wedding.

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