Stories and news we enjoyed in 2009

(5th list)

[December 31, 2009] 

January

• Trees that beautify Lincoln all part of a plan
  Tree farm saves taxpayers money and earns 'Tree City USA' designation

• Lincoln's tree culture, a century old and still growing

• Health department's home health agency receives recognition

• Kroger donates to Together for Lincoln
  (Front page picture)

• Main Street Lincoln honors contributors

• State Bank of Lincoln receives top USDA award
  (Front page picture and link to article)

• Front page Jan. 20, 2009

• Obama takes office, saying choose 'hope over fear'

• Remember when...
  President Obama's visit to Lincoln College as a senator
  (2005 article)

• Children's response to the president's inauguration

• Vigilant neighbors thwart home burglary

• Security tape shows plane's Hudson River landing

• Humane Society holds annual meeting; new board elected, accomplishments cited
  Members look to even better 2009

• VFW supports Community Action Head Start

• Simonson family rebuilding with the help of faith and community

• Lincoln mayoral candidates tell how they'd run the city
  Listening key to audio

• Mayoral candidate forum (audio replay)

• Lincoln Daily News in 10th year of publishing in Lincoln and Logan County
  Starting our 10th year, we remember our legacy from those before us

• Commemorative painting unveiled at Lincoln College
  (Front page picture)

• Pictorial

March

• 2008 figures on county crop yields

• Front page March 7, 2009

• 106th Aviation Regiment returns from Kosovo
  Includes two soldiers from Logan County

• March designated as National Eye Donor Month
  Logan man gives 'gift of sight'

• Lincoln Christian College receives distinguished honor

• Memorial Health System honored as an Employer of Choice

• Front page picture March 19
  ALMH staff celebrated their prestigious Employer of Choice award.

• Quickly and effectively
  10-year-old Lincoln youngster eyes state wrestling championship

• Habitat breaks ground on Mount Pulaski home

• Front page March 31, 2009


Picture: At the Lake Fork Community Consignment Auction Saturday, despite a steady rain and chilling temperatures, a huge crowd showed up for the 37th annual event.

• Lake Fork auction: A community pulls together
  Biscuits and hot chocolate ward off chill

• Logan County Health Fair goes green
  Recycling and proper disposal of unwanted medicine available

• Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs salutes women veterans

April

• Front page April 4, 2009


Picture: Lincoln College students helped over 250 grade school students Friday at the Logan County Children's Health Fair. The students coordinated a “recycle relay” in an effort to reinforce the importance of recycling.

• San Jose: 150 years of looking out for each other

• A healthy dose of kids; at this year's kids' health fair (in pictures)

• Send an SOS and this group comes running

• Area agency looking at how to use federal stimulus money
  Community Action Partnership explains what funds will do for area

• Abe's 1858 namesake town rally-speech published in the Lincoln bicentennial issue of the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society

• Mount Pulaski Clinic celebrates anniversary Thursday

• Community Action, Habitat explain plan to work together
  Partnership plans to seek grant to buy and restore foreclosed homes

• Lincoln College students initiate 'Green Week'

• Lincoln City Council honors Alderman Verl Prather, Alderwoman Wanda Lee Rohlfs and Mayor Beth Davis-Kavelman

• Mayor Elizabeth 'Beth' Davis-Kavelman honored for service

• Logan County gathers ideas for future growth

• 3rd annual Airport Daze celebrates aviation in Logan County
  Remote-controlled model aircraft demonstrations featured Saturday

• Front page May 4, 2009

• Picture: It was a great day to visit the Logan County Airport on Saturday, when Heritage In Flight hosted the third annual Airport Daze. Barry Miller, president of Heritage-In-Flight, county board chairman Terry Carlton and county board member Bill Martin talk about the future at the airport.

• Heritage In Flight hosts the 3rd annual Airport Daze -- in pictures

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