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Dec. 16, 2001

Community service award

Local Emergency Planning Committee

 

Jan. 25, 2001

Certificate of appreciation

Logan County Healthy Communities Partnership

 

State:

Oct. 1, 2001

2001 Media Award

Illinois Public Health Association

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Tuesday, August 26, 2003 

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Balloonfest is over for another year!  We already look forward to next year's festivities and events. Thanks to all the participants and planners. 
[Picture by Jan Youngquist]

  • Lincoln Art & Balloon Festival (just past)
    and
    Lincoln Sesquicentennial

Tuesday

Spotlight on business, with tours, promotions, open houses
Organized tours or open houses hosted at
Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital (3-6 p.m.), Weyerhaeuser, Precision Products, Friendship Manor, Key Printing, Russell Stover Candies, Union Planters Bank

1-3 p.m. -- Demonstration on wood carving by Deane McKinley at Logan County Genealogical & Historical Society research center, 114 N. Chicago St.

6 p.m. -- 1860s baseball game, Ground Squirrels versus local sports standouts, Lincoln Junior High School ball diamond

Wednesday

10 a.m. -- Town christening re-enactment and speeches, outside the train depot, downtown Lincoln

1-3 p.m. -- Demonstration on old-time rug hooking by Helen Fine at Logan County Genealogical & Historical Society research center, 114 N. Chicago St.

7 p.m. -- Encore presentation of town christening re-enactment and speeches, outside the train depot, downtown Lincoln

7:30-9 p.m. -- 1850s-1860s music and free watermelon feed, Latham Park

[Complete schedule]

 

 

 

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Yesterday's headlines:

  • Pictures from Saturday's 2003 Balloon Festival

  • Pictures from Saturday's 2003 Art Festival

  • Eaton Cutler-Hammer celebrates 45 years in Lincoln

  • Business tours and open houses

  • Horse checkoff program

  • Hot August mutterings

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