St. Elmo News

By Editor | October 4, 2012 |

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Wednesday, October 3
• Wright’s Corner Unit of Home and Community Education, 1 p.m., Loudon Town House.
Thursday, October 4
• St. Elmo Business Association, noon, Mary Ann’s Restaurant.
• St. Elmo Women’s Civic Club members will meet at 6:15 p.m. in the St. Mary Catholic Church parking lot to pool rides to the Happy Hollow Pumpkin Patch and Summer Breeze Winery, both south of St. Elmo. The first stop will be at the pumpkin patch; club business meeting and refreshments will be at the winery.
Saturday, October 6
• The Wright’s Corner School Reunion, 11 a.m., Vandalia Ponderosa.
• Polio Survivors and Friends of East Central Illinois, 1 p.m., Sarah Bush Lincoln Education Center, Mattoon. Those who wish to eat together will meet at noon in the hospital cafeteria.
Monday, October 8
• The St. Elmo Lions Club, 6 p.m., Mary Ann’s Restaurant.
Tuesday, October 9
• The Avena Township Park Board, 6 p.m., St. Elmo Community Park Centennial Building.
• American Legion Post #420, 7 p.m. Legion Home.
• The Fayette County Board, 7 p.m., Fayette County Courthouse, Vandalia.
Thursday, October 11
• The Lunch Bunch, noon, Mary Ann’s Restaurant.
• The St. Elmo Library District Board, 7 p.m., St. Elmo Public Library.
• Effingham Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, 7:30 p.m. Effingham Masonic Temple.
Fayette County HCE Board
The board of Fayette County Home and Community Education met the morning of Sept. 24 at the Vandalia Extension Office.
President Flo Allen opened the meeting, with all giving the pledge of allegiance.
Debbie Boley was called into the meeting, and she was presented with an “Ode to Debbie Boley, Our Office Secretary, a Real GEM (goes the extra mile).”
Written by Panzi Blackwell and signed by all the board members present, it read:
You always go the extra mile, and always with a cheerful smile, always friendly, gracious and sweet, a friendly “Hello” whenever we meet. Conscientious in your duties, professional, but also a friend, always willing to give others a needed helping hand. A great office secretary, to that we will attest, as a friend to Fayette County HCE, you are No. 1, the best. Thank you for your kindness from the members of the Fayette County Home and Community Education Board.”
An “Ode to Jo Stine, our IAHCE Community Worker/SNAP Ed” was given to Boley to give to Stine, who wasn’t present.
It also was written by Blackwell and signed by all the board members present and it read:
We appreciate your interest in our Fayette County HCE and your visits to the sites of the Summer Lunches for Kids (free). We appreciate your friendliness and your support in what we do and your understanding of our goals, whether they are old or new. So please accept this token of thanks and know it is sincere and true, the Fayette County HCE Board appreciates all you do.
International Chairman Shirley Klitzing reminded everyone of the International Night potluck and program that will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 16 at the St. Elmo Phillips Building at 6 p.m.; registration will start at 5:30 p.m.
The program on Indonesia will be given by Dona Strullmyer of Altamont.
Beverages and table service will be provided. All guests are welcome to attend.
Klitzing also announced that the October past and present officers meeting is at 11:30 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 22, at Old Capitol View Restaurant.
All HCE units in the county are reminded that the Pennies for Friendship collection has to be sent to Dorothy Harpster, HCE county treasurer, by Nov. 1. Some units collect pennies during the year, some of the units send a $1 per member for Pennies for Friendship.
Units that want to participate in the project of giving Christmas cards to the military need to have them at the Oct. 22 Board meeting. Cards are to be signed by a first name only, and only the cards, no envelopes, are to be given to the board. They will be boxed to send together to a military address.
Another project Units may want to do—all national brand coupons (no store coupons) are being collected to send overseas—the coupons can expire here, but if the expiration date is not more than four months, they will be accepted. They will be sent to an overseas military base for families to us.
Blackwell had a centerpiece of a pumpkin holding a flower arrangement. There were several plates of mini cream puffs and at each place, a Mounds candy bar wrapped in a wrapper that said “Join HCE for Mounds of Fun.”
Present for the Board meeting were Allen, Blackwell, Klitzing and Shirley Pryor of the Sefton Unit; Harpster of the St. Peter Unit; Anna Jean Rhodes of the St. Elmo Unit; Debbie Segrest and Anita Smith of the Vandalia Day Unit; Karen Hyde of the Wheatland Unit; and Mary Smith of the Wright’s Corner Unit.
Allen, Klitzing, Pryor, Rhodes, Segrest and Anita Smith ate lunch at Denny’s after the meeting.
St. Elmo Lions Club
President Dave Maxey led in the pledge of allegiance, and Pee Wee Denton gave the meal blessing at the St. Elmo Lions Club meeting on Sept. 24 at Mary Ann’s Restaurant.
In the last Labor Day report, erroneously missed was a thank you to Tony and Loy Logsdon for the use of their vehicle for the parade marshals.
The October Heath Bar sale will be from 5-7 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 22. This year’s Holiday Caring and Sharing was discussed.
The applications for this year’s event can only be obtained from the St. Elmo City Hall and the St. Elmo Food Store, the date to be announced later.
District 11 Governor Dean Keller will visit the club on Monday, Jan. 14.
After the meal at the next meeting, Monday, Oct. 8, at Mary Ann’s Restaurant, the membership will proceed to the Natural Gas plant for a tour by Lions Club member Randy Wolf.
In addition to Maxey and Denton, those present at the September meeting were Don Crawford, John Crawford, Lewis Crawford, Roger Fulk, Mark Lash, Bob Lowe, Richard Lowe, LeMar Marchman, Dee Newberry, Rex Reeder, Lloyd Stanley and Randy Wolf.
St. Elmo HCE
The St. Elmo Unit of Home and Community Education met the afternoon of Sept. 27 at the St. Elmo Public Library. Roll call, “My favorite HCE lesson this year,” was answered by Karen Denning, Joyce Drees, Goldie Harris, Loretta Heischmidt, Noma Moore, Anna Jean Rhodes and Karen Wegscheid,
The Sept. 24 County HCE board notes were read. Passed around was picture of a little dress made from a T-shirt. Members were asked to start saving expired brand name coupons (expiration date no later than four months).
Members also were asked to sign Christmas cards with a first name only and take the cards, without the envelopes, to Karen Denning before Oct. 22. Rhodes will take them to the County HCE Board meeting. The cards from all the units will be boxed together to send to a military address.
The unit has 16 members so a check of $16 for Pennies for Friendship will be sent to the county HCE treasurer.
Members were reminded of the county International Night potluck at 6 p.m. on Oct. 16 at the Phillips Building. St. Elmo is to do the registration that starts at 5:30 p.m. A program on Indonesia will be given by Dona Strullmyer of Altamont.
For the remainder of the meeting, the new program books were mostly filled out.
At the October meeting, the unit will decide on where to go and the date for a Christmas party. Next year, the unit will decide on the special activities for July and August.
Refreshments of spiced pound cake, popcorn crackers, peanut butter filled nuggets, chocolate covered cookie dough bits and a variety of sodas were served by Rhodes.