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Lincoln Woman's Club officers will be installed during a Wednesday noon
spring luncheon at the club building, and a memorial service will be
conducted for deceased members Millie Anderson and Wini Trapp.Greeters for the meeting will be Diane Osborn and Suzanne Benner,
with Marcia Howen and Carol Schwantz serving as social
co-chairwomen. Judy Lumpp will give the devotional.
Barbara Dahm will be installed for a second term as president.
Other officers are Ruth Sloot, first vice president; Mary Cooper,
second vice president; Diane Osborn, recording secretary; and Janet
Langenbahn, treasurer. Cheryl Hall will be installed to a three-year
term on the board of directors. Others continuing on the board of
directors are Louann Bleess, Jackie Campbell, Carol Grunder and Deb
Schweitzer.
 Donor
gifts make hospice patient wishes come true, help families cope with grief
A check representing collective donor gifts of
$8,332.21 from the Abraham Lincoln Healthcare Foundation's Dr. Wayne J. Schall Hospice Fund was recently presented to the Memorial Home Services
nurses who work with Logan County patients and their families.
The Light Up A Life and memorial contributions from local donors
will help promote a bereavement support group and support the final
wishes of local hospice patients.
Memorial Home Services is a
not-for-profit affiliate of Memorial Health System and serves 14
central Illinois counties. Shelley Gray, R.N., and Jessica Spiedel,
R.N., (pictured above) commute daily from Girard and Chatham to work
with Logan and Mason County patients of Memorial Home Services. The
two nurses do so because they "love the families, pharmacies,
physicians and hospital in the Lincoln community."
As part of their daily routine, Gray and Spiedel visit hospice
patients in their homes to help make their final days as pain-free
and rewarding as possible. They also partner with ALMH case managers
and Dr. Mary Bretscher's chemotherapy clinic to ensure that the
transition to hospice care is as smooth as possible.
Gray says that the gifts passed along from the Abraham Lincoln
Healthcare Foundation will be used to support a new bereavement
support group, which meets in the ALMH Steinfort Room the third
Thursday of every month from 6 to 8 p.m.
Spiedel added that the gifts will also help them grant wishes for
local patients as part of the Memorial Home Services Hospice Sharing
Wishes Fund. Gray and Spiedel work with the Memorial Hospice team of
social workers, chaplains and volunteers to get to know the patients
and their desires, and then use the Sharing Wishes Fund to make
those wishes a reality. Wishes granted to Logan County patients have
included a ride in a hot-air balloon, a laptop needed to Skype with
far-away family members, a hearing device, and a haircut and special
dinner.
According Marty Ahrends, executive director of the Abraham
Lincoln Healthcare Foundation, ALMH started its own hospice program
in the late '80s and named it in memory of beloved physician Dr.
Wayne J. Schall. Even though the Schall Hospice at ALMH merged with
Visiting Nurses Association of Central Illinois in the mid-'90s, the
community continued to support the Schall Hospice Fund. More than
$522,000 from 6,047 donors has been donated to the fund since then.
In 2004 the local hospice advisory group recommended that Schall
funds purchase low-air-loss mattresses and other items that hospice
patients would use in their homes. Later they approved the
renovation of a hospice respite care room at the former ALMH
facility and voted to use funds for pain medications that keep local
hospice patients comfortable during their final months.
Gifts for the Schall Hospice Fund can be sent to the Abraham
Lincoln Healthcare Foundation, 200 Stahlhut Drive in Lincoln. For
more information, contact Ahrends at 605-5006 or visit
www.almh.org.
Lincoln
Heritage Museum named among top 30 university museums
The Lincoln Heritage Museum at Lincoln College
has been named as one of the 30 "most amazing university museums" in the
world, according to Best Colleges Online. Jennifer Carson, a representative of Best Colleges Online, noted in
her announcement to the Lincoln Heritage Museum that, in preparing
this recent list, the editors reviewed information on hundreds of
museums around the world and selected the 30 they deemed most
outstanding.
According to the Best Colleges Online website, the
Lincoln Heritage Museum was included because of the strength of its
collection and how it "preserves artifacts related to the life and
presidency of Abraham Lincoln." The editors for the site identified
the "objects from Lincoln's home, books and other personal
possessions of Lincoln, and a one-of-a-kind handmade campaign
banner" as some of the museum's most prominent attributes.
Ron Keller, director of the Lincoln Heritage Museum, commented
that this recognition is significant.
"One must consider that according to Lynn Marsden-Atlass,
secretary for the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries,
there are in the United States alone an estimated 3,000 college and
university museums. That number is surely tripled when accounting
for museums outside our nation's borders. That makes the
acknowledgment of our museum quite noteworthy," Keller said.
Anne Moseley, assistant director of the museum commented: "We are
honored to be among the many museums that have made an impact on the
students and visitors to our campus. We will continue this in the
new museum as we educate individuals on the life, the legacy and the
character of Abraham Lincoln. Our significance is recognized now.
Once we are in the new museum this fall, our impact and recognition
will be even greater."
The top 30 list includes American and international museums,
including the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and
Anthropology; the Harvard Museum of Natural History; the U.S. Naval
War College Museum; the Museum of Anthropology in British Columbia,
Canada; the Macquarie University Museum in Sydney, Australia; the
Beth Hatefutsoth Museum in Tel Aviv University, Israel; the Kyoto
Museum for World Peace, in Kyoto, Japan; the Grassi Museum fur
Musikinstrumente (Museum of Musical Instruments) at the University
of Leipzig, Germany; the Natural History Museum of Denmark at
University of Copenhagen, Denmark; and the Asia University Museum of
Art in Taipei, China. The full ranking of the 30 most amazing
university museums is available at
www.bestcollegesonline.org.
Best Colleges Online is an organization that surveys the nation's
top online schools and degree programs, and provides career how-to
guides, information about the benefits and advantages of online
degrees, and other information on universities around the world. The
editors regularly provide "top 10" rankings on many elements of
college offerings.
The Lincoln Heritage Museum is open 9 to 4 Monday through Friday,
and from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturdays. Admission is free.
Together
for Lincoln pork chop dinner
Together for Lincoln will have its annual
butterfly pork chop dinner fundraiser on Thursday, May 16, from 4 to 7 p.m.
in the IGA parking lot. In addition to a butterfly pork chop, the meal
includes au gratin potatoes, green beans and a dinner roll. Tickets are $8. Tickets may be purchased in advance at the Jefferson
Street Christian Church office during regular office hours
Mondays-Thursdays or on-site the day of the dinner.
All proceeds
will go to support projects at the annual Together for Lincoln
service project day on Sunday, Sept. 22.
Lincoln
Writer's Club will meet May 14
Lincoln Writer's Club will
meet Tuesday, May 14, at 6:30 p.m. in the Alumni Room of the student center
at Lincoln College. Suggested topics:
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Write a poem on a page of
newspaper. Incorporate what you see into your poem.
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How could a coconut, a mask and a
dictionary help you off a desert island?
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More home
remedies.
For more information, call
732-2723.
All are welcome.
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Logan
County Arts presents 'Functional and Fine Art: Lincoln Community High School
Textiles, Woods, Metals and Fine Art'
An exhibit of works by Lincoln Community High
School students in textiles, woods, metals and fine art will be on view at
the Lincoln Art Institute in downtown Lincoln from May 9 through May 26. The
show opens Thursday, May 9, at 5 p.m. and is free and open to the public. This event will feature various works by current students attending
Lincoln Community High School and includes works that are both
functional and creative in a variety of media.
Refreshments will
be served at the opening, in addition to a bake sale with the
proceeds going to support Logan County Arts, which serves artists
and the community throughout Logan County.
The Lincoln Art Institute hosts Logan County Arts with the goal
of expanding awareness of arts with a focus on Logan County.
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Lincoln Art Institute
Address: 112 S. McLean, Lincoln, IL 62656
Contact: Toby Prange, curator,
contact@logancountyarts.org
Phone: 217-651-8355
Website:
www.logancountyarts.org
Hours: Saturdays 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
or by appointment
Hartsburg-Emden High School Alumni Banquet will be June 8
HARTSBURG-EMDEN -- The 86th annual Hartsburg-Emden High School Alumni
Banquet will begin at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, June 8, at the Knights of Columbus Hall in
Lincoln. Invitations to the banquet will be sent out the first week of May.
Anyone who did not receive an invitation but would like to attend
the banquet may send a request via email to Ron Spencer at
coach_spencer@hotmail.com,
or you may reach him on his cellphone at 309-838-0360.
Anniversary classes being honored this year are 1933, 1938, 1943,
1948, 1953, 1958, 1963, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998,
2003, 2008 and the senior Class of 2013.
The winner of the "Wall of Fame" award will be selected and
announced at the banquet. This year's award will be represented in
the category of "Athletics/Sports."
Please mail nomination letters to Ron Spencer, 8923 Blooming
Grove Road, Bloomington, IL 61705.
Due to the rising costs of the banquet, the alumni association
will accept donations to help out with the cost of the event and to
continue funding the Alumni Scholarship. Donations are payable to
the Hartem Alumni Association and may be sent to Greg Phillips, 208
Market St., Emden, IL 62635.
Officers of the alumni association for 2013 are Chris Boerma,
president; Ron Spencer, vice president; Loretta Hellman, secretary;
Greg Phillips, treasurer; and Kay Mullins and Verna Lessen,
corresponding secretaries.
Logan
County Relay to celebrate American Cancer Society's 100th year
The Logan County Relay For Life is joining all
of America in celebrating 100 years of saving lives and creating more
birthdays through the efforts and research of the American Cancer Society,
begun in 1913. Formerly the word cancer was not spoken, so almost all
patients with this dreadful disease were lost. On Saturday, May 18, the Logan County
Relay For Life teams will sell $10 luminaria bags at Lincoln IGA
from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. The luminaria will also be available at the
annual Relay For Life Breakfast at Lincoln College on Sunday, May
19, from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. On Wednesday, May 22, these luminaria
will draw attention to the 100th anniversary, as all of those
purchased will be placed on the front porch of each participating
home and lit at sundown to show support in helping to stamp out this
disease in this century.
The luminaria purchased for this celebration will not be relit at
the Relay For Life event June 14-15 at Lincoln College.
For more information, contact Bill Post, 732-7564; Tonita
Reifsteck, 855-1645; or Nicole Lee, 828-1100.
Route
66 will anchor weekend of activities in Logan County
Route 66 will be the centerpiece for a diverse series of activities taking
place in Logan County on the weekend of June 7-9, Friday-Sunday.
Events will range from garage sales, auto racing and an electric
car show to art exhibits and the Illinois Route 66 Hall of Fame
Banquet.
Festivities will begin with the annual Route 66 Garage Sale,
which will take place from 7 a.m. until dusk Friday, Saturday and
Sunday in Lincoln.
This year, vendors can rent indoor or outdoor space at the VFW,
915 Fifth St., or flea market space at The Mill, 738 S. Washington
St. For reservations at the VFW, or general information about the
garage sales, call Andrea Dykman at 217-735-0294. The Logan County
Tourism Bureau at 217-732-8687 is taking reservations for spaces at
The Mill.
For the first time, Logan County Outreach, a community betterment
organization, and Lincoln Printers will host the Route 66 Garage
Sale.
Private garage sales will also take place throughout the
community. Those planners are urged to use traditional news and
social media outlets to advertise their sales.
On Friday night, race fans can watch the POWRi competition at
Lincoln Speedway on the Logan County Fairgrounds. Gates open at 3
p.m., with hot laps at 6:30 p.m. and racing at 7 p.m.
The Mill 2nd Saturday Flea Market on June 8 is the premiere event
for a series of flea markets there on the second Saturday of each
month through October. The flea market will run from 10 a.m. until 5
p.m.
The Lincoln Art Institute gallery at 112 S. McLean St. in
downtown Lincoln will be open on Saturday from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m.
Main Street Lincoln will sponsor a PLUS 5K run and health fair in
downtown Lincoln on Saturday.
Also on Saturday, an Electric Vehicle Cruise-In will take place
from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. along the original Mother Road in historic
downtown Atlanta. The free public cruise-in is sponsored by the
Atlanta Betterment Fund.
After it was commissioned in 1926, Route 66 was responsible for a
huge increase in automobile traffic that led to the need for
businesses to serve the traveling public. Among these new businesses
were service stations.
Now, Route 66 is poised to help create the next big
transportation infrastructure -- charging stations for electric
vehicles. Atlanta is interested in helping other Route 66
communities discover how to better serve the traveling public that
will be searching for an electric plug-in instead of a gas pump.
The June 8 Electric Vehicle Cruise-in, Illinois' first, will
display some cool EV cars and offer a chance to learn more about how
the Mother Road is working to give birth to a new travel
infrastructure.
All electric and hybrid cars are invited to participate in the
cruise-in. The event will also feature vintage music, great food, a
50-50 drawing and hourly drawings.
Atlanta offers two Level 2 Eaton charging stations, available by
advance reservation at no fee. There are also 16 Level 1 charging
stations available at no cost on a first-come, first-served basis.
For more information about the cruise-in, or to make reservations
to use the Level 2 charger, contact Bill Thomas of the Atlanta
Betterment Fund at 217-648-5077 or
wthomas@teleologic.net.
Atlanta will also exhibit the results of its first Rt. 66
Reinterpreted Art Project from May 1 through Aug. 13.
Modeled on Chicago's "Cows on Parade" exhibit, the Rt. 66
Reinterpreted Art Project presented artists the opportunity to
create their own take on one of the 20th century's most iconic and
recognizable symbols, the U.S. Route 66 highway shield.
Artists were provided a blank 2-by-2-foot wooden cutout of the
Route 66 highway shield, painted white, which then became their
personal canvas. Each shield was required to incorporate the text
"U.S. 66," but otherwise the design was left to each artist's
imagination.
The Atlanta Betterment Fund, sponsor of the project, selected 10
shields as finalists. Visitors can vote on their favorites, and
those with the most votes will be named winners of the contest. At
the conclusion of the project, the five winning shields, along with
the names of the artists who created them, will be displayed on a
permanent basis in the Atlanta Rt. 66 Park. For more information,
contact Bill Thomas at the telephone number or email address above.
The annual Route 66 Association of Illinois Motor Tour will pass
through Logan County on Saturday, June 8. Many of the participants
will stay overnight Saturday before continuing the tour on Sunday.
The Route 66 Association Hall of Fame Banquet will take place
Saturday evening at Lincoln College. Advance reservations are
required for the banquet. For more information about either the
banquet or the motor tour, visit the Route 66 Association of
Illinois at il66assoc.org.
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