The drawing will officially kick off
at the Logan County Fair, where the agency will have a booth in the
Exhibition Building. Tickets for the drawing are $1 each or six for
$5.The agency will also have a table in Scully Park during the
Lincoln Art & Balloon Festival and will finish up the fundraiser at
the Abraham Lincoln National Railsplitting Festival in September.
All proceeds from the drawing will be used to help fund the 13
local agencies that the United Way has pledged to support in 2011.
The
Education Task Force of the Healthy Communities Partnership
is hosting an informational breakfast on Thursday, July 29, to
inform interested community members and businesses and promote its
activities.
The current objectives of the task force are to increase high
school graduation rates in Logan County and to decrease truancy
rates in the county. Truancy rates in Logan County schools are
higher than the state's average, and in Lincoln approximately 1 in
25 teens, or 4 percent, do not graduate with their class.
Join the Education Task Force at 8:30 a.m. on July 29 in
Conference Room A at Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital to learn how
you can help. To RSVP, please contact Kristi Lessen, director of the
Healthy Communities Partnership, at 217-732-5066 or e-mail
education@healthycommunitiespartnership.org.
University
of Illinois Extension in Logan County is offering a three-day mini
Cloverbud Camp for children ages 5-7. This camp will provide
youth with a variety of activity-based learning opportunities.
Topics will be in the areas of science and technology, plants and
animals, and personal development -- specifically, wind and air,
weather; ants and bugs; and valuing family.
The camp will be Aug. 10-12 from 10-11:30 each morning at the
Logan County Extension office.
A $15 registration fee is required. To register your child for
4-H Cloverbud Camp, call 732-8289. Registration deadline is
Wednesday, Aug. 4.
