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Illinois
Supreme Court justice to speak to Rotary
 The
Lincoln Rotary Club will host Illinois Supreme Court Justice Rita B.
Garman at their Wednesday, Oct. 3, noon meeting at the Restaurant at
the Depot. Justice Garman, a Rotarian and Paul Harris Fellow from
Danville, will speak on the importance of community involvement on
one’s path to career excellence.
With
a 27-year career as a judge in Illinois, Rita Garman was sworn into
office as an Illinois Supreme Court justice on Feb. 6. The Supreme
Court voted unanimously to appoint Garman to the court to replace
retiring Justice Ben Miller, representing the 4th Judicial District.
The 4th District includes 30 central Illinois counties from Indiana
to Missouri.
Born
in Oswego, Justice Garman graduated from Oswego High School in 1961
as class valedictorian. She went on to earn a degree in economics
from the University of Illinois, where she also named to Bronze
Tablet, the university’s highest academic honor.
Justice
Garman earned a juris doctorate degree with distinction from the
University of Iowa Law School in 1968. She began her law practice
with the Vermillion County Legal Aid Society and was named an
assistant state’s attorney for Vermillion County in 1969. Four
years later she entered private practice with the law firm of Sebat,
Swanson, Banks, Lessen and Garman in Danville.
After
serving 12 years as associate circuit judge, Justice Garman was
elected as circuit judge for the 5th Judicial Circuit. She served as
the presiding judge for Vermillion County for eight years before
being assigned to the 4th District Appellate Court in 1996. Justice
Garman served on the Appellate Court up until her recent appointment
to the Illinois Supreme Court.
Justice
Garman is a member of the Vermillion County Bar Association,
Illinois State Bar Association and the Illinois Judges Association.
She has also served on a number of judicial committees and judicial
conference assignments during her distinguished career.
 In
1988 and again in 1995, Justice Garman was named the Business and
Professional Women’s "Woman of the Year." She has also
been named as the Green Meadow Girl Scout Council Woman of
Distinction, the AAUW Woman of Distinction and received the Athena
Award in 1995.
Justice
Garman currently serves on the board of directors for the 708 Mental
Health District and is an active member of the Danville Rotary Club.
The
Lincoln Rotary Club meets every Wednesday at noon at the Restaurant
at the Depot. Membership is open to all local professionals and
business owners of good standing. For more information about
becoming a member, contact Marty Ahrends, president, at 732-3378;
Robert Jeckel, vice president at 735-5372; or Phil Gillen,
secretary, at 735-1752.
Cars,
crafts bring big crowds to Postville Courthouse
From
Richard Schachtsiek, site manager
 The
weekend of the Lincoln Art & Balloon Festival, Aug. 25 and 26,
was the busiest period for the year at the Postville Courthouse.
This year the crowd was good: over 1,200 people for the weekend. It
was down a bit on Saturday because of the threat of storms.
What
drew people to the courthouse on Saturday, Aug. 25, was the
opportunity to see over a dozen Porsche cars, from a 1950s 356 to a
couple of current Boxsters. The cars were displayed by members of
the Lincoln Trail Porsche Club. Inside the courthouse was a display
of scale model Porsche street and race cars. This helped draw people
into the historic building.
Lincoln
Mayor Beth Davis stopped by to present three award plaques to club
members for their special Porsches. The plaques were donated by Neal
Tire & Auto Service, Lincoln NAPA store and Burwell Oil.
This
was the third time the Porsche club has had a charity car show at
the courthouse. Money raised by registration and donations for the
day is used to purchase new trees to be planted around the yard. The
previous two car shows have raised enough money to plant five trees,
oaks and maples, in the yard.
My
thanks to all the Lincoln Trail Porsche Club members who brought
their cars for the charity car show. I also thank Keith Leesman and
Jack Bartelmay, who served as volunteer interpreters during the day.
Their help was appreciated.
Sunday
was a busier day with the annual 1800s Craft Fair. This event is
always very popular, for there is something of interest for every
member of a family.
This
year we had several new artisans including a new flax-to-linen
demonstrator from near St. Louis and a Windsor chair maker from
Petersburg. Other crafts demonstrated were bobbin-lace making,
working the "Great Wheel" wood lathe, blacksmithing and an
herbalist.
In
addition to the craftspeople, several music groups performed,
including the local Prairie Aires. They
provided music for a group
of local dancers who did Civil
War-era dances.  They also asked the
public to join in dancing.
New
this year was a special display by "Phineas Fairhead, practical
phrenologist," presented by Lee Slider of Decatur. Phrenology
was a popular "science" in the mid-1800s. It consisted of
reading the bumps on a person’s head to tell his or her
personality.
In
August the following Postville Courthouse volunteers gave 130 hours
to greet visitors to the historic courthouse: J. Bartelmay, B.
Behrends, J. Curtis, B. DePuy, D. Freeman, R. Hoppin, C. Kelley,
C. Klink, N. Kleinman, K. Leesman, B. Marvel, R. Meyer, M. Ott, W.
Post, S. Schumaker, G. and J. Semple, M. Smith, L. Snyder, G. Wibben.
[Richard
Schachtsiek, site manager]
Lincoln
Public Library adult program schedule
 The
Lincoln Public Library has five adult programs remaining on the
schedule for this year. The presentations are in the Pegram
Community Room at the library, 725 Pekin St., and begin at 7 p.m.
Admission is free. Seating is on a first-come basis.
Schedule:
Oct.
4 — "The Life of Lincoln," presented by Tim Townsend,
historian at the Lincoln Home in Springfield
Oct.
22 — "On the Road with Antiques," featuring Rob and Joy
Luke of Luke Auctions. Learn the latest in antique collecting. Six
lucky attendees will receive a free appraisal of an antique.
Nov.
5 — "Archaeology and Primitive Technology Roadshow,"
with Larry Kinsella, president of the Illinois Association for the
Advancement of Archaeology. Larry will do artifact identification
for several lucky participants.
Nov.
20 — "Herbal Seasons," with Tracy Kirby. How to grow,
harvest and store herbs.
Dec.
11 — "Herbal Holidays," with Tracy Kirby. Holiday
cooking, decorating and making gifts with herbs.
Heritage in Flight
open house Oct. 7
Heritage
in Flight Museum, at the Logan County Airport, 1315 Airport Road,
will have its fall open house from 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 7.
Heritage in Flight Museum members will be on hand to explain the
displays and educational programs. This is an event that
grandparents, parents and children can enjoy together.
The
museum’s static aircraft collection includes a Bell TH-13T Sioux
helicopter, Bell UH-1 Huey helicopter, Beech 18 (C45), Lockheed T-33
Shooting Star, McDonnell F-4E Phantom II and a Vought A-7C Corsair
II. The Huey and Corsair II cockpits will be open.
The
museum has various examples of military vehicles, including a pair
of Jeeps painted in military police schemes, one Army and the other
Navy; a Desert Command car; a six-wheel-drive Army Gamma Goat that
floats; a red firetruck; and a Korean-era Army ambulance. Children
often enjoy vicarious rides in these vehicles as much as those involving
aircraft.
After
11 years of operating the Logan County Airport with most of the
member volunteer hours devoted to mowing grass near the runways,
volunteers now spend the
majority of their hours preparing and
presenting exhibits for the enjoyment and education of citizens of
the surrounding communities. Weekday tours by school groups, by
reservation, are receiving special attention, and weekend visits by
families are encouraged.
The
outside of the museum’s display building has recently been
painted, new display cases have been installed, and the gift shop
has been expanded.
Refreshments
will be served at Sunday’s open house. Admission is free, but
donations are appreciated.
The
Logan County Airport is just off Kickapoo Street (Business US 55) in
northeast Lincoln. The Logan County Airport sign is just north of
the Illinois driver’s license branch office.
For
more information, call the HIF museum at (217) 732-7126.
[News
release]
Insurance
company will match relief donations
Aid
Association for Lutherans of Appleton, Wis., has released $1 million
in fraternal funds to help those in need after the terrorist attack
on the United States. All donations (from private individuals) will
be matched with a like amount until $1 million has been reached.
Checks
made payable to AAL Branch 483 should be mailed to Treasurer Shirley
Aukamp, 1578 700th Ave., Lincoln, IL 62656. Other area
AAL branches in the county are also participating in the
effort.
Send
checks no later than Friday, Oct. 5, and designate the relief
organization on the memo line. The AAL home office will send the
branch money and AAL’s supplemental funds to the relief
organization designated. All donations will be acknowledged with a
receipt.
Relief
organizations are as follows:
•
ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) Domestic Disaster
Response-Sept. 11
•
LCMS (Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod) World Relief
•
American Red Cross
•
Benevolent Fund to benefit families of fallen rescue workers
Call
Linda Aper, local AAL representative, at (217) 732-2253 if there are
questions.
Information,
a pink ribbon, muffin and juice
ALMH hosts
eighth annual Breast Cancer
Awareness ‘Drive-Thru’ on Tuesday, Oct. 2
In
honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, Abraham Lincoln
Memorial Hospital is hosting the eighth annual Breast Cancer
Awareness "Drive-Thru" on Tuesday, Oct. 2. Participants
are invited to drive through the hospital’s Eighth Street parking
lot from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. on their way to work or other activities.
People driving through will receive a packet of information about
breast cancer and its treatment, a guide to monthly breast
self-examination, a pink ribbon, muffin and juice. The Logan County
Health Department is supplying the information from the Illinois
Department of Public Health.
For
those who miss the drive-through, other opportunities are available
to get this information. Breast cancer information packets and pink
ribbons will be distributed at Wal-Mart from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. on
Oct. 2. Information packets will also be available during the month
of October at the Pink Shutter and Oasis. Outlying areas of the
county may receive information from the Rural Health Partnership's
Mobile Health Unit.
One
out of nine women in the United States will develop breast cancer in
her lifetime. About 90 percent of breast cancers are discovered by
women themselves, yet only about one-fourth of American women
perform breast self-exams regularly. Get the facts on Oct. 2. For
more information, call (217) 732-2161, Ext. 405.
Historian
Tom Townsend
presents ‘The
Life of
Lincoln’
Tim
Townsend, historian at the Lincoln Home Historical Site in
Springfield, will present a program at the Lincoln Public Library on
Thursday, Oct. 4, at 7 p.m. His program is entitled "The Life
of Lincoln."
Seating
at the library, 725 Pekin St., is on a first-come basis.
Light
refreshments will be served following the presentation.
For
more information about this program and future programming, you may
call the library at 732-8878 or 732-5732.
CEFCU
accepts contributions to
Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund
Donations to the American Red Cross
Disaster Relief Fund can be made at the CEFCU Member Center, 341
Fifth St. in Lincoln. CEFCU is proud to help support the Red
Cross in efforts to cope with the Sept. 11 national tragedy.
Ed
Madigan exhibit featured at Lincoln
College Museum
The
Lincoln College Museum is presenting a temporary exhibit called
"Edward R. Madigan: From the Halls of Lincoln College to the
Halls of the White House." The exhibit, which is currently on
display, pays honor to one of Lincoln College’s most successful
alumni, the late Edward Madigan.
Madigan
graduated from Lincoln College in 1955, entered the Illinois
Legislature in 1966, was elected to Congress in 1972, and was
appointed by President Bush in 1991 to be secretary of agriculture.
In 1974, the Lincoln College Alumni Association presented Madigan
with its award for Outstanding Achievement in the field of Public
Services. In 1975 he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane
Letters degree by Lincoln College. He died in 1994.
Lincoln
College Museum curator Ron Keller says the display tells the story
of Madigan’s career in public service. "The display reflects
his experiences and service through many photographs, and letters
from every president from Carter to Clinton. There are also various
artifacts from his works in Congress and in the White House."
The exhibit will run through November of 2001. The public is invited
to stop by the Lincoln College Museum to view this exhibit and tour
the rest of the historic exhibits.
The
Lincoln College Museum is located in the McKinstry Library on the
campus of Lincoln College. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through
Friday and 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
[Evelyn and
Agriculture Secretary Ed Madigan at the White House with President
and Mrs. Bush in 1991.]
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