Serving will begin at 7 a.m. and wrap
up when everyone is satisfied or the food runs out.
The menu will include all-you-can-eat
pancakes, sausage and a drink.
Suggested donations are $6 for
adults and $3 for children.
There will also be a bake sale
going on at the same time.
Proceeds of the event will go to
support church and community projects.
Christian
Village to host annual fall festival Nov. 10
The Christian Village in
Lincoln invites everyone to join them on Saturday, Nov. 10, for their annual
fall festival.
It will be a day of fun and games,
food, and family activities and entertainment.
Among the list of activities are face
painting, pumpkin painting and a chance to have a fall family
portrait taken.
Live music will be presented from
11 a.m. to 1 p.m., and a choice of chili or pork chop lunch will be
served from 11 to 2.
Other activities included in the
day are hayrack rides, a craft and bake sale, facility tours and
more.
(See
publicity.)
Lunch
and Learn program Nov. 6 at Oasis
The Area Agency on Aging for Lincolnland, in
cooperation with Senior Citizens of Logan County, has scheduled a Lunch and
Learn program for informal caregivers of older adults and grandparents and
other relatives raising children. It will be at the Oasis Senior Center, 501
Pulaski St. in Lincoln, on Nov. 6 from noon to 1 p.m.
Jamie Freschi, regional long-term care ombudsman, will present
information regarding "Residents' Rights in Long-Term Care
Facilities."
Lunch will be provided, and preregistration is
required. There is no charge to attend.
This presentation is part of a series of Lunch and Learn
programs. The goal of the series is to provide practical information
that will help caregivers continue to provide quality care to others
while maintaining balance in their own lives.
Informal caregivers are those unpaid people such as family
members, friends and neighbors who provide assistance to someone who
is to some degree incapacitated and in need of help with tasks such
as grocery shopping, bill paying, cooking or personal care.
Grandparents or other relatives raising grandchildren are those who
have accepted primary responsibility for raising one or more
children through age 18.
To register or to learn more about this program, contact the Area
Agency on Aging for Lincolnland at 217-787-9234 or 800-252-2918.
Logan
Art Association invites you to join them at their 1st meeting Nov. 6
On Nov. 6, anyone who is interested is invited
to attend the organizational meeting of the Logan Art Association. The
meeting will be at 7 p.m. at the Lincoln Art Institute, 112 N. McLean St. in
Lincoln.
The meeting is free to attend and open
to anyone 18 years of age and older who is interested in any kind of
art.
Organizers are hopeful that local artists will be interested
in becoming a part of this association, but also encourage anyone
who is interested in learning more about art to attend as well.
Areas of interest will be drawing, painting, sculpture,
photography and art history.
This is the first meeting, so the group doesn’t have an agenda
yet. Organizers are open to ideas and suggestions that might help
determine the direction the group will take.
"Please join us," says Georgie Borchardt. "We'd love to see/meet
you and have you begin this new adventure with us!"
Contact Borchardt at 309-244-5708.
Lincoln
Heritage Museum welcomes historian, author Guy Fraker
The Lincoln Heritage Museum is hosting a
presentation and book sale/signing by historian and author Guy Fraker on
Wednesday, Oct. 24, at 7 p.m. at the museum, located on the campus of Lincoln College.
Fraker's presentation accompanies his newly released publication,
"Lincoln's Ladder to the Presidency: The Eighth Judicial Circuit."
Fraker is an attorney from Bloomington. His book follows from his
years of research on Abraham Lincoln's time as a circuit-riding
lawyer and has been greatly anticipated by Lincoln scholars.
Throughout his 23-year legal career, Abraham Lincoln spent nearly as
much time on the road as an attorney for the 8th Judicial Circuit as
he did in his hometown of Springfield. Yet most historians gloss
over the time and instead have Lincoln emerge fully formed as a
skillful politician in 1858.
In this innovative volume, Fraker provides the first-ever study
of Lincoln's professional and personal home away from home and
demonstrates how the 8th Judicial Circuit and its people propelled
Lincoln to the presidency.
Though it fluctuated in size through the years, the 8th Judicial
Circuit, which existed from the late 1830s to the 1860s, comprised
most of the county courthouses in central Illinois. Logan County was
included, and Abraham Lincoln practiced law in courthouses in
Postville, Mount Pulaski and then in Lincoln as the location of the
county seat changed during that time.
Fraker describes the people and counties that the future
president encountered, discusses key cases Lincoln handled and
introduces the important friends he made -- friends who eventually
won him the presidential nomination in 1860.
As Fraker shows, the 8th Judicial Circuit provided the perfect
setting for the growth and ascension of Lincoln. A complete portrait
of the 16th president depends on a full understanding of his
experience on the circuit, and "Lincoln's Ladder to the Presidency"
provides a deeper understanding of the roots of his political
influence and acumen.
Fraker has garnered advance praise for his book. John Hoffman,
curator of the Lincoln collections at the University of Illinois,
remarked about the book: "Drawing together both contemporary and
reminiscent sources, and bringing a sense of place to each locale on
the circuit, Fraker provides a comprehensive view of Lincoln's life
in law and politics on the Illinois prairie."
Fraker served as consultant on the award-winning PBS documentary
"Lincoln, Prelude to the Presidency." A graduate of the University
of Illinois College of Law, he is a past president of the McLean
County Bar Association. He is widely considered the foremost expert
on Lincoln's time on the circuit.
The presentation is free, and books will be available for sale
afterward for $34.95 plus tax.
For more information, contact Ron Keller at the Lincoln Heritage
Museum at 217-732-3155 or
rkeller@lincolncollege.edu.
Time to sign up for the Atlanta Library's annual book group
ATLANTA -- Worldviews, the Atlanta Public Library's book group, is about to
get under way, with the first meeting scheduled for Oct. 29. This is a great
opportunity to read some fantastic books, share your ideas about them with
friends, socialize and learn about a subject of global significance. This
year's focus is the Holocaust.
Worldviews is free and meets on Mondays
from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the library.
On Oct. 29, the group will discuss John Boyne's "The Boy in the
Striped Pyjamas," the New York Times best-seller about the
concentration camp friendship between a German boy and a Jewish boy.
Subsequent sessions will feature discussions of "The Diary of a
Young Girl," by Anne Frank, on Nov. 26; "In the Garden of Beasts,"
by Erik Larsen, on Jan. 28; and "Sophie's Choice," by William Styron,
April 29. On Feb. 25, the group will have a potluck supper and watch
and discuss the award-winning movie "Schindler's List." March 25,
Michael Rothberg from the University of Illinois' Holocaust,
Genocide and Memory Initiative will speak to the group about
genocide in the world today, and in May, the group will take a field
trip to the Holocaust Museum in Chicago, where members will have an
opportunity to speak directly with a Holocaust survivor.
To sign up for Worldviews, call the library, 217-648-2112, or email
apldinformation@gmail.com. Be
sure to ask about the multiple ways in which you can obtain books through
the library.
Veterans
of Logan County, make your reservations for Nov. 4 celebration & dance
Over 1,100 invitations have been sent to the
veterans in Logan County for the 11th annual Veteran's Celebration and
Recognition Dance, sponsored by the St. John United Church of Christ Youth
Group. The event is planned for Nov. 4 from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at the American
Legion in Lincoln.
Although invitations and a reply card
have been sent to the veterans the group has addresses for, it is
not too late for any veteran who did not receive an invitation to
call in a reservation request to Tonita Reifsteck, 732-9796; the
youth sponsors, Jonathan and Tami Pagel, 732-4500; or the church,
732-6957. Seating can then be arranged.
The evening will begin
with a light meal served from 5 to 6 p.m. and a tribute to the
various branches of service by the Don Smith Band, which will
provide dance music from 5 to 7:30.
The youth along with their sponsors, the Pagels, plan and host
fundraisers all year for this celebration to honor the veterans of
Logan County or any veteran who was deployed from Logan County.
The St. John Youth Group will also honor the veterans of their
church on Nov. 4 during the 10:30 a.m. worship service with a
"Litany Remembering All Those Who Serve" and will present each
veteran with a special gift.
Those veterans are Loren Birnbaum, Josh Bismark, Adam Bock, Bob
Borowiak, Charles Brainard, Erik Brickman, Kenneth Brickman, John
Cassens, Rod Christensen, Phillip Gehlbach, Gerald Gehrke, Dan Gosda,
Gerald Gosda, David Hansen, Homer Harris Jr., Jack Leich, Robert T.
Lenhardt, Eric Leslie, Don McCann, Scott Mara, Robert Meinershagen,
Anthony Morey, Richard Morgan, Wilbur Paulus, Arthur Rohrer, Ron
Sprague, Ray Turner, Donald Werkman, Eddie White, Lawrence Wilham
Jr., James Wilmert, Wilbur Wilmert and Mark Wilson.
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