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Announcements
Thursday, July 6
• St. Elmo Business Association will not meet in July.
Friday. July 7
• Men’s Bible study, 6:30 a.m., St. Elmo Golf Course.
Saturday, July 8
• Fayette County 4-H food, clothing, demonstrations and public speaking judging. See info following these announcements.
Monday, July 10
• St. Elmo Lions Club, 6 p.m., Mary Ann’s Restaurant.
Tuesday, July 11
• Avena Township St. Elmo Community Park Board, 6 p.m., Park Centennial Building.
• American Legion Post #420, 7 p.m., American Legion Home.
• Fayette County Board, 7 p.m., Fayette County Courthouse, Vandalia.
Wednesday, July 12
• ”Exploring the Arts” for grades 3-8, 6-8 p.m., St. Elmo Christian Church.
Thursday, July 13
• Lunch Bunch, noon, Mary Ann’s Restaurant.
• St. Elmo Public Library Board, 7 p.m., St. Elmo Public Library.
• Chapter #110 Order of the Eastern Star, 7 p.m., Effingham Masonic Temple.
Fayette County 4-H Foods, Clothing, etc., Judging
The schedule for the Saturday, July 8, Fayette County 4-H judging at the Brownstown Elementary Cafeteria follows:
• Check-in 12-1 p.m. Judging begins at 1 p.m. for foods and clothing.
• Table decorating and foods demonstrations at 1:30 p.m.
• Public speaking contest at 2 p.m.
• Fashion revue at 2:30 p.m.                              
Visual Arts – Food decorating is judged this day, not with the general project judging at the Fayette County Fair.
The awards presentation will be held Thursday, July 20, with the general projects award presentations.
Fayette County HCE
The Board of Fayette County Home and Community Education met the morning of June 26 in the Fayette County Extension Office, with the following present: President Flo Allen, Panzi Blackwell and Phyllis Pryor of the Sefton Unit, Anna Jean Rhodes of the St. Elmo Unit and Ashley Davis, Joyce Muller, Anita Smith and Debbie Segrest of the Vandalia Day Unit. A guest was seventh-grader, Lexi Van Diver.
After the Pledge of Allegiance and the reading of the minutes, reports were given. First Vice Debbie Segrest is asking all Fayette County HCE members who can to enter items in the Fayette County Fair Open Section.
A fair book can be picked up at the Extension office.
All entries must be made at the fair office (do not mail entries).
Items can be taken to the fairgrounds and checked in Saturday afternoon on July 15 and until 11 a.m. on Sunday, July 16.
Entries must be made in the name of the person who did the work.
Do not enter anything that won last year. Exhibits are limited to two in each entry number. No article entered can be removed until noon on Wednesday, July 19, and all have to be removed by 1:30 p.m. on the July 19.
Class J is for agriculture products, garden products and garden exhibit. Class K is for horticulture. Class L is for floriculture – cut flowers/hanging plants and flower arrangements. Class M is for photography, art, hobby, rugs and quilts. Class O is culinary – all kinds of canned goods and baked goods and candy.
Second Vice Anna Jean Rhodes needs from each unit the names of HCE members who have rejoined for the 2017-18 year. The Sefton Unit received a new member at the June meeting – Helen Reeter of Brownstown.
St. Elmo HCE
Roll call, “Who is your Hero?” was answered by Sarah Beasley, Karen Denning, Carole Krost, Mary Jane Mattix, Anna Jean Rhodes and Sharon Shelton at the meeting of the St. Elmo Unit of Home and Community Education the afternoon of June 27 at the St. Elmo Public Library. Member Karen Wegscheid was working at the Library. Guests were Dannika and Camden Beasley.
A Wheatland HCE member who joined St. Elmo HCE when the Wheatland Unit dissolved last summer died this month. Erna Koontz faithfully attended the St. Elmo meetings and in May took the June Telenet major lesson at the Extension Office. She is being missed.
Members were urged to enter items at the Fayette County Fair this year; this is to help keep the Fayette County Fair.
For the special activity in July, St. Elmo Unit plans to eat at the Effingham Cracker Barrel and possibly take a tour of an Effingham business possibly on July 18 or 25.
Rhodes gave the major lesson, “Financial Elder Exploitation,” and Shelton gave the special feature, “What One Person Can Do.”
Mattix served strawberry pie, cherry pie, punch and Dr. Pepper.
Lions Club Officer Installation
The St. Elmo Lions Club annual officer installation was held June 26 at Mary Ann’s Restaurant. The 2017-18 officers are: David Maxey, president; Dan Laack, first vice; Lloyd Stanley, second vice; Bob Wells, third vice; Don Crawford, secretary/treasurer; Randy Wolf, lion tamer; Rex Reeder, tail twister; Al Nevergall, Holly Huffer and Skip Heaton, membership committee; Richard Lowe, Roger Fulk, Bob Lowe and Pee Wee Denton, directors; and Dee Newberry and Le Mar Marchman, reporters.
Guests were invited and the 21 present were Dave and Joann Maxey, Lloyd and Mona Stanley, Randy and Linda Wolf, Max and Susan Hollinshead, Dave and Peggy Cox, Bob and Ellie Wells, Richard Lowe and Rosemary Owen, Holly Huffer, Rex Reeder, Al Nevergall, Bob Lowe, Don Crawford, Roger Fulk and Skip Heaton.
Mobile Food Pantry
The Mobile Food Pantry sponsored by the Fayette County Farm Bureau was held June 10 in the Pinnacle Foods parking lot, and the 43 workers included Pinnacle employees, Fayette County Farm Bureau members, Vandalia Soroptomist members and St. Elmo Lions Club members.

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