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Logan
County CROP Walk set for Sunday at Scully Park
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[SEPT.
9, 2005]
Organizers have scheduled the 2005 Logan County
CROP Walk for Sunday, beginning at 1:30 p.m. at Scully Park, and
have again designated the Central Illinois Economic Development
Corporation to receive the quarter of the money raised that remains
in the county.
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Local CROP chair Tonita Reifsteck of Lincoln said
the need in Logan County is even greater this year with the loss of
local jobs and the increase in the cost of food, rent and gas to get
to jobs on income that has not seen a cost-of-living raise or
benefits.
The remainder of the money raised will go to
worldwide assistance through the Church World Service program.
Internationally the organization supplies help digging wells for
safe water; furnishing seeds to countries where floods have
destroyed crops or food supply; and providing shelters for
hurricane, tornado or flood victims, some of whom live within the
United States.
Last year's Logan County CROP Walk collected over
$5,100.
Walkers will proceed from Scully Park down Fifth
Street to College to Woodlawn Road to Elm, back to Eighth Street and
Broadway, back to Kickapoo, ending at Scully Park.
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New this year at the Scully Park check-in will be
"tubs for food." These are containers for nonperishable foods as
well as cleaning supplies and personal articles such as soap,
toothpaste and toilet tissue -- articles that food stamps and
budgets may not cover.
Pledges to walkers will be collected Sept. 11, with
all pledges being due by Oct. 31. Rosemary Apel of Lincoln is Logan
County CROP treasurer. Any church or civic organization that has not
received CROP materials or anyone wishing to make a pledge may
contact Apel at 732-7656 or Reifsteck at 732-9796.
[News release]
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