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Library's
announces annual book sale
 The
Lincoln Public Library District will have its annual book sale during
the 2000 Lincoln Art and Balloon Festival. The schedule for the book
sale will be Saturday, Aug. 26, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, Aug.
27, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The sale will be in the Pegram Community
Room in the Carnegie building at 725 Pekin St. In addition to the
usual assortment of books, magazines, records and other items, the
sale will feature books weeded from the library’s collection. These
items will include mysteries, westerns, science fiction, general
fiction and children’s books. The sale will be a buck-a-bag sale
with some specially priced items. For more information contact the
library at 217-732-8878.
American
Red Cross classes offered in August
Logan
County Red Cross will be having class sessions Aug. 23 and 24 in
Community First Aid and Safety. This class will be from 6 to 10 p.m.
the first evening and will be completed on the following evening, with
hours from 5 until 10 p.m. It will cover adult CPR, infant and child
CPR, and first aid.
On
Saturday, Aug. 26, a CPR Challenge class will be from 9 a.m. until 1
p.m.
These
classes will be at 125 S. Kickapoo St. For further information or to
preregister, you may come in any weekday from noon to 4 p.m. You may
also call 732-2134.
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.
Complete
contest information is below.
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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