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MPHS
announces orientation evening
 Mount
Pulaski High School announces that freshman and new student
orientation is set for Thursday, Aug. 17, at 6:30 p.m. Both students
and parents are invited to meet in the band room. Signs will direct
you there.
Physician
to speak to support groups
 Dr.
Dru Hauter will be the guest lecturer at a combined meeting of the
Congestive Heart Failure and Diabetes support groups of Abraham
Lincoln Memorial Hospital (ALMH) on Monday, Aug. 21, at 6:30 p.m. in
Conference Room A at ALMH.
Dr.
Hauter will address physical changes in congestive heart failure and
diabetes, and he will open the discussion to questions from attendees.
The lecture is open to anyone interested in or suffering from
congestive heart failure or diabetes.
For
more information about the event or the support groups, please call
ALMH at 217-732-2161, ext. 443.
"Investing
beyond CDs" teleconference scheduled
 University
of Illinois Extension in Logan County will be sponsoring a
teleconference program called "Investing Beyond CDs to Achieve
Your Long-Term Goals." This program will focus on various
categories of investments including mutual funds and how you can use
these investments to reach your goals. This teleconference will allow
you to receive unbiased, research-based information from certified
financial planners who are not selling any investment products.
The
teleconference is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 6, from 6 to 8 p.m.
at the Extension Office, now located at 980 N. Postville Dr. on the
northwest corner of the Logan County Fairgrounds. To register to
attend, please call the Logan County Unit at 732-8289 by
Monday, Aug. 21.
Midwest
haiku contest announced
 In
celebration of the visit to the Midwest of haiku poet Madoka Mayuzumi,
the Consulate General of Japan at Chicago, in conjunction with the
Japan America Society of Chicago and the Haiku Society of America
Midwest Region, announces a haiku contest.
Madoka
Mayuzumi, founder of the Tokyo Hepburn haiku club for women and editor
in chief of the journal "Monthly Hepburn," will be featured
at a haiku presentation in Chicago on Saturday, Sept. 30. A well-known
and popular poet in Japan, Ms. Mayuzumi has done much to promote the
"new haiku," especially among young people and women. Her
lecture, "Contemporary Haiku and Japanese Society," will be
from 10 a.m. to noon at the Swissôtel, Grand Ballroom, 323 East
Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60601.
The
presentation will be in Japanese with English interpretation. The
public is cordially invited, and contest entrants are especially urged
to attend. Seating will be on a first-come basis.
Contest
information
Contest
deadline:
In-hand by Sept. 15.
Eligibility:
The contest is open to all residents of Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota
and Wisconsin, including students attending college in these states.
Regulations:
Adult and youth
contests in English. Youth contests are for pupils in school grades
kindergarten through 12. The theme of the contest is
"Autumn," and entries should contain a word or image
associated with the season. Limit: Five haiku per entrant.
Entry
procedures: Type or
write one haiku legibly on one side of a 3-by-5 index card. Write your
name, age (for youth category only), address, phone, e-mail address
(if you have one) and the contest designation ("adult" or
"youth") on the reverse side of the card. Submit a separate
card for each haiku entered. E-mail entries are welcome. For those
entries, send your haiku together with the address information and
with "haiku contest" in the subject line of the e-mail
message.
Submission:
Send English-language haiku by mail to Randy M. Brooks, 4634 Hale
Drive, Decatur IL 62526-1117, or by e-mail to brooksbooks@q-com.com.
Entry
fee: None.
Notification:
First-, second-, and third-place winners in all four contests (12
awards) will be notified by telephone or e-mail around Sept. 22.
Announcement
of awards: Awards
will be announced by the guest of honor, Madoka Mayuzumi, founder of
the Tokyo Hepburn haiku club for women and editor in chief of the
journal, "Monthly Hepburn," following her presentation in
Chicago on Sept. 30. All contest entrants are cordially encouraged to
come to this lecture, and there will be special consolation prizes for
all entrants who do attend!
Adjudication:
Entries in English
will be judged by Lee Gurga, associate editor of the journal
"Modern Haiku" and past president of the Haiku
Society of America (see Web page at http://www.family-net.net/~brooksbooks/gurga.html).
Rights:
Following possible
inclusion of the winning poems in the Japan Information Center
newsletter and posting on the JIC Web site, all rights revert to the
authors.
Correspondence:
For more information,
contact the contest coordinators at the addresses above. For more
details, see Web site at: http://www.jchicago.org/haikuen.html.
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Olympia
FFA groups raise funds, welcome teacher
The
Olympia FFA Alumni/Boosters chapter, in conjunction with the FFA
chapter, helped cook rib-eye sandwiches at the Minier Corn Daze
festival on Aug. 6 in Minier. The alumni group includes parts of
McLean, Tazewell, DeWitt, Logan and Woodford counties.
Several
members from each chapter helped cook and sell approximately 600
rib-eye sandwiches. Proceeds from this event will benefit the FFA
chapter at Olympia.
Also,
they welcomed Miss Mindy Busboom, a new agriculture instructor at
Olympia for the upcoming school year. She was raised on a grain and
livestock farm near Rantoul and recently graduated from the University
of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. She is looking forward to working
with John Rogers, the other agricultural instructor at Olympia.
Everybody
who helped with the event had an enjoyable and profitable day.
Orders
for reprints are being accepted now
The
1886 "History of Logan County"
The
Logan County Genealogical and Historical Society is reprinting the
1886 "History of Logan County" with index. Pre-publication
orders are now being accepted. Pre-publication cost before Aug. 15 is
$40 each. After Aug. 15, the cost will be $45 each. Please include $4
per book for shipping and handling.
Orders
with payment may be sent to the Logan County Genealogical &
Historical Society, 11 Arcade Court, Lincoln, IL 62656. Orders
received without payment will not be accepted.
The
1886 History of Logan County is suggested as a great gift for the book
lovers on your Christmas list. People are encouraged not to delay in
ordering, as only a limited number of books will be available.
News
from ALMH:
August Employee of the
Month is Pam Morrow
 Congratulations
to Pam Morrow (Dietary Department), who was named the Abraham Lincoln
Memorial Hospital August Employee of the Month.
Pam’s
nominator says Pam makes working fun ─ "In her positive,
upbeat way of saying and doing things makes everyone’s day
better." When working with the patients, she is always willing to
go the extra mile to make them happy. You can always count on Pam to
help get the work done.
Pam
has worked at ALMH for 3½ years. She enjoys fishing with her husband
and spending quality time with her two children and grandson. She has
a passion for growing hot peppers and creating new chili recipes
─ green chili being her most popular!
Pam
enjoys listening to all the interesting stories the elderly patients
like to share.
Congratulations
to Pam.
ALMH welcomes new
employees
ALMH welcomes Donna
Leonard to the staff as a CNA on Med/Surg. Donna lives in Mount
Pulaski with her husband and three children. In her free time, she
enjoys reading and flower gardening.
Vicki Kampmeier joins the Med/Surg staff as
a nurse tech. Vicki was born and raised in Wood Dale and currently
resides in Lincoln with her husband, Gene. She enjoys gardening in her
free time.
Congratulations to
parents of winners in fair queen pageant
Congratulations
to Marcia Stoll, of Logan Mason Mental Health, whose daughter
Elizabeth was crowned Miss Logan County Fair Queen 2000.
Also,
congratulations to Gene Fioli, of Logan Mason Rehab, whose daughter
Amanda was first runner-up in the Logan County fair queen pageant.
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