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Organizations,
Events, Milestones,
Good
Neighbors, Fund-raisers,
A Day in the Life...,
Diaspora, Reunions,
Reminiscence
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July 2001
Sundays
in July and August
WHO:
Public
WHAT:
Free tours of J.
H. Hawes Grain Elevator Museum
WHERE:
Atlanta
WHEN:
1-3 pm
Sunday,
July 15
COORDINATED
BY: Main Street Lincoln and
Lincoln Area Music Society
WHO:
Public
WHAT:
Concert in the Park, featuring The Nostalgics; sponsored by Beans
and Such and Family Custom Cleaners and Laundry
WHERE:
Latham Park, downtown Lincoln
WHEN:
7 pm
Monday,
July 16
SPONSOR:
Abraham Lincoln
Memorial Hospital
WHAT:
Congestive
heart failure and diabetes support group; call
(217) 732-2161, Ext. 443 for more information
WHERE:
ALMH, Conference
Room A
WHEN:
7 pm
Tuesday,
July 17
SPONSOR:
Abraham Lincoln
Memorial Hospital
WHO: Public
WHAT:
Free blood
pressure screenings
WHERE:
ALMH, first floor waiting area
WHEN:
9 am - noon
SPONSOR:
Abraham Lincoln
Memorial Hospital
WHAT:
Breast
Cancer Awareness; call
(217) 732-2161, Ext. 443 for more information
WHERE:
ALMH, Conference
Room A
WHEN:
7 pm
Wednesday,
July 18
SPONSOR:
Lincoln Printers
WHO: Public
WHAT:
Blood
drive
WHERE:
Lincoln Sports Complex
WHEN:
noon - 6 pm
SPONSOR:
American Red Cross
WHO: Public
WHAT:
Class
covering adult CPR, infant and child CPR, and first aid; first
of two sessions
WHERE:
125 S. Kickapoo St.
WHEN:
6-10 pm
Thursday,
July 19
SPONSOR:
Abraham Lincoln
Memorial Hospital
WHO: Public
WHAT:
Free blood
pressure screenings
WHERE:
ALMH, first floor waiting area
WHEN:
9 am - noon
SPONSOR:
Atlanta Christian Church
WHO: Public
WHAT:
Blood
drive
WHERE:
Atlanta Christian Church
WHEN:
noon - 6 pm
SPONSOR:
American Red Cross
WHO: Public
WHAT:
Class
covering adult CPR, infant and child CPR, and first aid; second
of two sessions
WHERE:
125 S. Kickapoo St.
WHEN:
5-10 pm
Sunday,
July 22
COORDINATED
BY: Main Street Lincoln and
Lincoln Area Music Society
WHO:
Public
WHAT:
Concert in the Park, featuring Angel Spiccia and Friends; sponsored
by Bassi Construction and The Tropics Restaurant
WHERE:
Latham Park, downtown Lincoln
WHEN:
7 pm
Monday,
July 23
SPONSOR:
Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital
WHO: Public
WHAT:
Blood
drive
WHERE:
ALMH
WHEN:
10 am - 2 pm
SPONSOR:
Abraham Lincoln
Memorial Hospital
WHAT:
Pain
management service; physician referral required; call
(217) 732-2161, Ext.403 or 444 for more information.
WHERE:
ALMH, on fourth floor
SPONSOR:
Abraham Lincoln
Memorial Hospital
WHAT:
Parkinson’s
support group; call
(217) 732-2161, Ext. 427 for more information.
WHERE:
ALMH,
Conference
Room A
WHEN:
7 pm
Tuesday,
July 24
SPONSOR:
Abraham Lincoln
Memorial Hospital
WHO: Public
WHAT:
Free blood
pressure screenings
WHERE:
ALMH, first floor waiting area
WHEN:
9 am - noon
Thursday,
July 26
SPONSOR:
Abraham Lincoln
Memorial Hospital
WHO: Public
WHAT:
Free blood
pressure screenings
WHERE:
ALMH, first floor waiting area
WHEN:
9 am - noon
SPONSOR:
Abraham Lincoln
Memorial Hospital
WHAT:
"Always
In Our Hearts" bereavement support group; call (217) 732-2161,
Ext. 405 for more information
WHERE:
ALMH,
fifth
floor physicians lounge
WHEN:
1-3 pm
Friday,
July 27
SPONSOR:
St. Peter's Lutheran Church
WHO: Public
WHAT:
Blood
drive
WHERE:
St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Emden
WHEN:
2-6 pm
Saturday,
July 28
SPONSOR:
American Red Cross
WHAT:
Challenge
Class for renewal of Red Cross certification; preregistration
required
WHERE:
125 S. Kickapoo St.
WHEN:
9 am - 1 pm
Sunday,
July 29
COORDINATED
BY: Main Street Lincoln and
Lincoln Area Music Society
WHO:
Public
WHAT:
Concert in the Park, featuring Paul and Win Grace; sponsored by
Prairie Years and Lincoln Public Library
WHERE:
Latham Park, downtown Lincoln
WHEN:
7 pm
Tuesday,
July 31
SPONSOR:
Abraham Lincoln
Memorial Hospital
WHO: Public
WHAT:
Free blood
pressure screenings
WHERE:
ALMH, first floor waiting area
WHEN:
9 am - noon
Tuesday,
July 31, through Sunday, Aug. 5
WHO: Public
WHAT:
Logan County Fair
WHERE:
Logan County Fairgrounds
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SPECIAL EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:
REGULAR POSTINGS FOR
ORGANIZATIONS: American
Red Cross, Girl Scouts,
Lincoln
Park District, Oasis,
Vineyard Cafe
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SPECIAL
EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
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REGULAR
POSTINGS FOR ORGANIZATIONS
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Red
Cross announces July blood drives
Lincoln
Printers will sponsor a blood drive at the Lincoln Sports Complex on Wednesday, July 18, from noon until 6 p.m.
Abraham
Lincoln Memorial Hospital will have a drive on Monday, July 23, with hours from
10 a.m. until 2 p.m.
Atlanta
Christian Church will be the site for a drive on Thursday, July 19, with hours
from noon until 6 p.m.
St.
Peter’s Lutheran Church in Emden will have a drive from 2 to 6 p.m. on Friday,
July 27.
People
who reached goals in their blood donations in June were Mike Booher, 17 gallons;
Robert L. Thomas, 10; Dale Meier and Dorothy M. Fink, five each; Jeff Short,
four; Laura D. Papuga, three; Anne Conrady and Carol Borowiak, two each; and
Jeff Farmer, Sherry L. Hall and Susan Storey, one gallon each.
Red
Cross classes in July
 The
American Red Cross will offer a class on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, July 17
and 18, covering adult CPR, infant and child CPR, and first aid. Class sessions
will be in the Red Cross office at 125 S. Kickapoo St. Hours the first evening
are 6 to 10 p.m. and 5 to 10 p.m. on the second evening.
A
Challenge Class will be on Saturday, July 28, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. This class
is for those who have had previous training and want to renew their
certification. Preregistration is required.
For further
information, call 732-2134. Office hours are from noon until 4 p.m. weekdays.
Girl
Scouts announcements
Websites with lots of ideas that Girl Scout leaders, families
or kids can use:
makingfriends.com
crayola.com
elmers.com
See
the website for Girl Scouts, Land of Lincoln Council, at http://www.girlscoutsllc.org/.
You
can send questions and suggestions to the council by clicking here: gsllc@girlscoutsllc.org.
Also, see the
national Girl Scouts site at http://www.girlscouts.org/.
Lincoln
Park District notes
From Roy Logan,
program coordinator
Pool parties
"Splash Back to the ’60s" will go from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, July 21.
DJ
Brando will spin the platters. Games, contests and surprises will
guarantee the fun. Just bring $1 or your pool pass to get in when we crank
up the fun!
Youth football sign-ups
 Youth
football sign-up is July 16 through 20. Equipment checkout will be announced at
the sign-up. The schedule will be posted later. This football program is
for boys entering sixth through eighth grades. The fee is $45 per child and $25
for each additional family member. The commissioner is Greg Curry.
5K run
On Saturday,
Aug. 25, Lincoln Park District will host the 13th annual 5K run in conjunction
with the Lincoln Art and Balloon Festival. Race time is 8 a.m. The run
begins and ends at the Park District at 1400 Primm Road. Dan Slack, a veteran
cross-country record-holder for LCHS, is our race coordinator. T-shirts are
given to all participants, and awards are given to the top three finishers in
each age category. Refreshments are provided. Registration forms
will be available in July at both the Rec Center and the Lincoln Chamber office.
Oasis
update
 The
Oasis, Logan County’s senior citizen center, at 501 Pulaski St. in
Lincoln, is open weekdays (except holidays) from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The
center also is open on Friday and Sunday nights for table games. Dominic
Dalpoas is the executive director. Activities are open to all Logan
County senior citizens,
regardless of membership.
Speakers
Bureau special program
Monday,
July 16, at 10 a.m. the Oasis will host a special program entitled
"Understanding Medicare." Please join us and have your
concerns addressed and questions answered.
Garden
Club special event
On
Tuesday, July 17, the club meets at the Oasis at 9 a.m. for a tour of
the John Raycraft garden.
Special
friends of the Oasis
This
month Dominic Dalpoas, executive director, recognizes the Abraham
Lincoln Memorial Hospital Pharmacy for their continuing support of the
Oasis and its members.
Winners
of weekly games
Mable
Hoagland won at pinochle June 29 and July 3. Grace McCrea won the June
29 evening pinochle game. Bernie DePuy, Betty Burger and Tom Garrison
were 5-in-1 winners. Alice Thornton won pool. Harley Heath was the
Sunday night winner for pool.
Newsletter
Friends
of the Oasis members receive bimonthly newsletters by mail. For more
information, people can call the Oasis at 732-6132 or 732-5844.
Vineyard
Cafe to feature the music of Bridge
The
Vineyard Cafe welcomes Bridge for a return engagement on Saturday, July
21. Bridge spans styles and generations with their high-energy
electro-acoustic sound. Tickets are available at the door, and baked
goods and coffeehouse beverages will be sold. Doors open at 7 p.m. The
Vineyard Cafe is at the Vineyard Christian Fellowship in Bloomington.
For more information or directions, phone (309) 6563-4943 or check www.communityzone.com/community/vineyardcafe.
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Milestones
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Fund-raisers
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Shed
your locks for St. Jude
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[JULY
6, 2001] Join
the first St. Jude Cut-A-Thon supporting the Lincoln to Peoria Run.
This event is walk-in haircuts at your local hair stylist on July 21
only, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. This is a great way to support area
youngsters who have cancer. Proceeds from this event (as well as
other local fund-raisers) are kept in central Illinois at the Peoria
Affiliate. St. Jude research is shared throughout the world, so this
is also a great opportunity to help children all over the globe.
Local participating stylist is Brett at Blades, phone 732-7213.
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Juvenile
Officer Darrell Sisk
made a difference to Lincoln kids
[JULY
13, 2001] Although
Darrell Sisk retired from the Lincoln Police Department on March 1,
he didn’t go very far away. Just a couple of blocks.
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Today
you can find him in his office in the lower level of the Logan
County Courthouse, where he is a court advocate for Sojourn, an
organization that gives shelter and service to victims of domestic
violence.
[Darrell Sisk]
He
likes the new job. "There’s a real demand for this service,
even more so than I thought when I was a cop," he says. The new
job keeps him on his toes, the way he had to be as a police officer.
"It’s educational, challenging, demanding, and sometimes
frustrating and confusing," he says.
Still,
he misses the old job. He keeps in touch with what’s happening in
the police department and is happy that his old friend, Rich
Montcalm, now police chief, is inaugurating some new programs.
"Many
of the programs Rich is putting into place are things he and I
worked on while I was in the department," Sisk says. He’s
especially pleased that Montcalm is establishing an Emergency
Response Team that will be prepared to deal with a serious incident
in any Lincoln-area school, because kids were such a big part of his
life as a police officer.
[Darrell Sisk and Police Chief Rich Montcalm]
"We’ve
got to have a policy to deal with a school crisis such as a
shooting. We’ve got to know who’s in charge, where the phones
are, what door to go in, even how to deal with the media. The first
people to get to a school emergency are going to be the local
police, and they need to have the training and the equipment to end
the threat. That’s what the Emergency Response Team is all
about."
Sisk
spent almost 31 years (he’s one month shy) with the Lincoln Police
Department, and for more than 20 of those years he was a juvenile
officer, a DARE teacher, a VEGA teacher, and a recognized authority
on juvenile investigation and crime.
He
designed and wrote the Lincoln Police Department policy manual for
juvenile procedures, which is still in use. He assisted in writing
school discipline policies and served on many committees concerning
school discipline. He organized all juvenile records for the city of
Lincoln and for Logan County, helped start the teen court for
juvenile offenders, which is still operating, helped coordinate
community youth programs of all kinds, and more.
He
grew up in Lincoln, was drafted in 1967 and spent two years in the
Army, 19 months of that time in Vietnam, came back and started to
work in the Sheriff’s Department as a radio dispatcher under Glenn
Nichols. Shortly after that he applied for a job as a city policeman
and got it.
He
started as a patrolman, driving around in a squad car. The car, he
remembers, had one light on top and one little hand-held radio, with
the radio equipment taking up the entire car trunk.
"To
use the radar unit, you had to stand outside the car and point it at
someone," he recalls. "If I got into a squad car today, I’d
have no idea what all that high-tech equipment is. It’s like being
inside a spaceship."
He
moved up to sergeant and then became a shift commander. But on May
11, 1980, his career took a sudden turn. That was the night he got
shot, and, ironically, he was shot by two juveniles who had escaped
from St. Charles Juvenile Detention Center, although he didn’t
know that at the time.
"They
were 15 and 16, the kind of kids we teach now," he says.
He saw
the two youths running around the old K-Mart building at 2 a.m. and
decided to see what was happening. "I got out of the car, and
the next thing I knew I was lying in a flower bed. A state trooper
found me."
He
should have been dead; a combination of good luck and good thinking
saved his life. It happened that he was wearing the only bulletproof
vest available to the Lincoln Police Department at the time, and
that one was a "loaner."
"Back
in the old days, vests were heavy
— about 30
pounds," he says. "Today you can’t tell whether an
officer is wearing one or not. But in 1980 they were just coming
out. The department was trying to find idiots to wear this one
because it was so heavy. I volunteered because I was working
nights."
When
he was shot in the back, he was standing close to a steel door. He
spun into the door and hit it so hard he got a concussion, but the
borrowed vest stopped the bullets and saved his life, at least the
first time. The concussion probably saved his life the second time.
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An old
friend, Detective Mike Harberts, adds some details to the story.
Harberts was a patrolman then, relatively new to the department.
"It
was the night before Mother’s Day. I had taken the night off, and
he was checking my building," Harberts recalls. "There
were a lot of flats of plants around the K-Mart. Darrell was near
the double doors on the east side, walking down a row of flowers,
when he was shot in the back two times. The force of the bullets
hitting him drove him into the doors. He was knocked unconscious and
thrown in a table full of flowers. That saved his life. If the kids
hadn’t thought he was dead, they would have killed him. They were
going to shoot him in the head with his own gun."
The
juveniles fled south, finally killing a 23-year-old detective in
Little Rock, Ark. They are now in jail in Arkansas, serving life
without parole.
"They
thought they killed Darrell too," Harberts says. "They
told the police down there they had killed a police officer in a
town between Bloomington and Springfield."
After
the shooting, Sisk gave up patrolling the streets and became a
juvenile officer. He didn’t know, when he took the job, that he’d
been shot by juveniles. But finding that out didn’t keep him from
becoming what those who worked with him call an outstanding juvenile
officer, one who liked and understood the kids he was working with.
"I
worked on any crime that involved a child
— burglary, armed
robbery, sexual abuse cases, anything. I did the investigation. I
worked with the detectives on major crimes."
The
most common crimes, he remembers, were fights and thefts. He recalls
only one murder involving juveniles.
"I
was involved in the court system, putting kids in various
institutions. Back in the old days, in 1980, a police officer could
put a juvenile in detention. If I picked up a kid for retail theft,
I’d put him in detention. In 1980 the police could hold a kid 48
hours, then take him before a judge. Today it’s a whole different
system. A juvenile probation officer has to authorize detention.
That officer will be the deciding factor whether the kid is detained
or released to his parents."
But
Sisk would always rather find a way to keep a kid out of the
juvenile justice system than a way to get him into it. To help do
that, he designed a juvenile diversion and citation program, another
program still in practice today.
"The
largest percent of calls to the police department involved juveniles
—
a kid riding a bicycle through a garden, a kid
throwing snowballs," he recalls. "I created a special
citation. I would write everything down on the ticket, give it to
the kid and tell him to take it home to his parents. If I didn’t
get a call from the parents within two days, I’d write them a
letter. The kids knew a letter was going to follow and they’d
better tell their folks."
He
also had some special techniques for the "station
adjustments," when a youngster was brought to the station after
doing something he shouldn’t have.
"In
the early days, I used to target hair," Sisk says. "If the
kid had long hair, I’d tell him the next time he got caught doing
whatever he was doing, he was going to lose six inches of hair. The
kid would sign a form that he agreed to that. Or if he was caught
riding a minibike in the street, he’d sign a form agreeing that if
he got caught doing it again, he was going to sell the bike."
However,
it’s the positive, not the negative, side of his job as a juvenile
officer that Sisk remembers and misses the most. He was the
department’s first DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) teacher,
and he still believes it’s a great program.
While teaching DARE, he
was with every sixth-grade class in town once a week for 17 weeks.
"I taught sixth grade in every school in Lincoln," he
says. "I loved it. That’s the part I really miss."
(To be continued)
[Joan
Crabb]
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People
all across this country and, in fact, around the world, claim roots in
Logan County. They have very interesting stories to tell, and some of them
like to connect with those of us who stayed at home. Logan County Diaspora
publishes the stories of former Logan County residents. With their
permission, we also include their e-mail addresses so that old friends
might be reunited. If you wish to be part of the Logan County
Diaspora, e-mail ldneditor@lincolndailynews.com.
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Diaspora
correspondents
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Reunions
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LCHS
class of ’76 reunion
[JULY
10, 2001] The
25th year reunion for the Lincoln Community High School class of
1976 is planned for Saturday, Aug. 4. Any
classmates who would still like to attend, please call or e-mail
Janice Greer, (217) 735-2621, jjmm@abelink.com
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Ongoing
class reunion in cyberspace for 1960 graduates of LCHS
http://www.geocities.com/lincolnhigh1960/
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Reminiscence
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Lincoln
Lakes beach
By
Stan Stringer
The
accompanying picture of the Lincoln Lakes beach was taken by Mark
Holland shortly before World War II. At this time Mark and Glenn
Courtwright were photographing local scenes and farms from the air
and hoping to develop a local interest in their pictures. The war
intervened, and Mark entered the Army Air Corps. Several extra
prints were made, and my father, Charles M. Stringer, saved this
one.
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The
picture was probably taken in June, as the lakes are flooded from
spring rains. The flooding isn’t obvious at first, but if one
looks closely, the wooden dock, which ran from the shore to the
diving platforms, is under water. A line of swimmers are standing or
walking along the dock. From June through August the water line
receded, so that the walk over the hot sand from the bathhouse to
the water’s edge seemed unending and unendurable.
For youngsters, a Saturday at the beach and swimming lessons in the
morning during the week were always great fun. As I recall, entry
cost a quarter, you were given a numbered basket and pin, and you
went to a changing stall. Girls and women went to one side and boys
and men to the other. Clothes and shoes went into the basket, and
the basket was turned in for holding. You fixed the numbered pin to
your trunks and later reclaimed your clothes with it.
For
many of us, swimming season lasted only until the end of July. In
August the radio and the newspapers began reporting the number of
new poliomyelitis cases. For many moms this was enough to forbid
further swimming. We thought this totally unfair. It may seem odd
nowadays, and while the press never photographed President Roosevelt
in a wheelchair, the public knew he suffered the effects of polio,
and the onset of his illness came after a swimming excursion.
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The
polio scourge is rarely thought of now, but until the advent of
massive polio inoculations the annual incidence of the paralytic
disease was 11.4 cases per 100,000 people. When polio inoculations
became prevalent, the incidence declined to 0.5 cases per 100,000,
and with the oral vaccine the present rate is 0.002 to 0.005 cases
per 100,000.
Notwithstanding
the general maternal fear of polio then, I never personally knew
anyone in grade school, or later in high school, afflicted with the
disease. I might have continued with a childlike naiveté about the
disease, except for one Saturday in the fall shortly after the war.
I was then in junior high school. On that day, in the storefront of
what is now Sew Many Friends, an iron lung was on display. The iron
lung wasn’t empty. It was operating, and it held a girl a bit
younger than myself, afflicted with polio. While the presentation
was said to be for educational purposes, a freewill offering was
requested. Clearly the disease was not only physically but also
economically devastating, particularly in an era when health
insurance was almost unheard of. In passing, one thought how
unsettling it must be for the girl to be simultaneously subject to
scrutiny and sympathy.
[Stan
Stringer]
(7-10-01)
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