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Coats for kids, Mount Pulaski waste pickup, Emma Nobbe, Tori Hoban and Lincoln Youth Wrestling in Close Up

By Mike Fak


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[December 10, 2010]  For 20 years, St. John United Church of Christ in Lincoln has partnered with the Community Action Partnership in providing coats for children from low-income families in Lincoln and Logan County. The church has purchased 1,666 new coats over the years and then given them to Community Action for distribution.

This Sunday, Dec. 12, at the 10:30 a.m. worship service, over 180 new coats will be presented for distribution in the 21st year of the program. The St. John Youth Group will have a processional at the start of the service to model some of the coats and will carry the rest of them to present to the Community Action Partnership representatives.


The Mount Pulaski landscape waste final pickup date is Dec. 17. Leaf pickup is scheduled Monday, Dec. 13, and the last day to take landscape waste to the sewage treatment plant is Friday, Dec. 17, prior to 3 p.m. The sewage treatment plant will then be closed for the season.


Emma Nobbe, eighth-grader at Zion Lutheran School in Lincoln, has been selected as a ZLS November Student of the Month. Emma has been on the high honor roll, and her school activities include cheerleading, track and field, speech team, choir, choir chimes, spelling bee and the Illinois History Fair. She is a member of Jefferson Street Christian Church. Her church and community activities include youth group, VBS crew helper, choir, church library volunteer, Together for Lincoln, talent show, jazz dance, guitar, piano, theater productions and CIY youth conference. Emma particularly enjoys the fun and challenge of learning new moves in jazz dance, reading, climbing trees and music. Emma's parents are Dr. Todd and Chris Nobbe of Lincoln.

Tori Hoban, an eighth-grader at Zion Lutheran School in Lincoln, has been selected as a ZLS November Student of the Month. Tori has been on the high honor roll, and her school activities include volleyball, choir chimes, band and spelling bee. Tori is a member of Zion Lutheran Church in Lincoln. Her church and community activities include youth group, VBS, youth conference, YMCA Volleyball Camp and YMCA Summer Counselor in Training Camp. Tori enjoys reading books, listening to music, baling hay with her family and spending time with friends. Tori's parents are Nate and Krista Miller of New Holland and Tom and Kristi Hoban of Prescott, Ariz.


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The Lincoln Youth Wrestling Team competed in its own Lincoln Railer Rumble youth wrestling tournament Sunday, Dec. 5, at Lincoln Community High School, with more than 400 wrestlers from all over central Illinois. The team's results were as follows:

  • 6 and under age division -- Dustin Meacham took first place; Chase McCormick and Billie Merreighn got second place; Ryan O'Donoghue, Chase Reed and Tyler Shaner took third place; and Malikye Trussel and Isaiah Yoakum got fourth place.

  • 7- and 8-year-olds -- Alex Bogdanic, Austin O'Donoghue, Braydon Saylor and Cade Tanner all came in first place; Collin Cogdill and Nolan Yates got second place; Bryton Fuchs, Tony Gandolfi, Terrance Hyde, J.R. Lynn and Tyler Sprague took third place; and Ikaika Carvalho, John Grover, Jack Harmon, David Hurley, Tyler Mason, Andre Mcadams, Kaleb Painter, Devyn Snow and Roux Starr were fourth-place finishers.

  • 9- and 10-year-olds -- Tyler Werth came in second; Taylon Mason and Treavor Bree were third; and Kade Shmidt, Alexander Work and Dalton Westcott took fourth.

  • 11- and 12-year-olds -- Ethan Moore and Noah Watts both took second; Conner Briggs, Kolton Johner and Scott Lessen all got fourth; and Austin Dennison was fifth.

  • 13- and 14-year-olds -- Preston Marten was fourth.

The team will head to Springfield on Sunday, Dec. 12, to compete in the Springfield Capitol Classic at Lanphier High School.


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You can contact Mike at mikefak@lincolndailynews.com.

[MIKE FAK]

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