•October 10, 2018•

National Mental Health Awareness week is October 7 through October 13. The goal is to replace the stigma about mental illness with awareness that treatment leads to recovery and good health.
Lack of understanding about this illness in the past has led to stigma and discrimination. Our current knowledge about the illness and the successful treatments available are resulting in better understanding of this illness. Read More

•October 3, 2018•

On Tuesday, five area schools participated in the Shelby County Land Use (Soil Judging) Contest.
The results are first place Okaw Valley - 1446; Central A&M - 1352; Cowden Herrick - 1194; Shelbyville - 1183; Pana - 920.
Okaw Valley students had the top four places including first Elizabeth Herbord - 366; second Case Crawford - 364; third Sadie Zimmerman - 358; fourth Cole Nichols - 358.
Other standout performers from OV were Karlie Stauder - 356 and Kylie Stauder - 352.

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Community Service Award accepted by (from left) Cheryl Cobb, Robert Cobb for Rock Solid Chapel and Board Chairperson Jean Finley.

•October 3, 2018•

C.E.F.S. Economic Opportunity Corporation recently showcased their 53rd year of accomplishments that demonstrated that community action helps people and changes lives. During the 2018 annual meeting some very special people and organizations were recognized as valuable community partners who enhanced the level of service to those in need.
According to C.E.F.S. Chief Executive Officer Kevin Bushur, “Without community partners like Solid Rock Chapel it would have been difficult to attain and achieve the agency outcomes and successes.”
In 2014, Solid Rock Chapel began a community garden on the church grounds run by volunteers. The volunteers who tend the garden plant more than enough vegetables to feed themselves, with the intention of sharing with the C.E.F.S. Moultrie County Outreach Food Pantry. The volunteers bring a wide variety of fresh produce including sweet corn, green beans, squash, tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, peppers, and a variety of lettuce. The fresh produce is delivered to the Outreach Food Pantry by volunteers once a week and sometimes twice a week. The Outreach Food Pantry usually provides canned vegetables in the food boxes because they do not have the available resources to provide fresh produce. Solid Rock Chapel’s community garden fills this void. Read More

25 Years Ago This Week

Philip Martin and Wilma Hollonbeck were entered into the SHS Hall of Fame during the annual alumni banquet. Martin is a corporate lawyer in Chicago and a community leader. He was a 1959 graduate of SHS. Martin married Nina Tabor in 1971, and they reside in Evanston. Sullivan resident Wilma Hollonbeck is a musician, a retired teacher and an active volunteer. After her graduation in 1940, Wilma attended University of Illinois where she received her degree with a major in English and a minor in Latin. She married Lefty Hollonbeck in 1942.
The Bethany High School marching band joined the Sullivan High School marching band for the pre-game celebration at Friday’s homecoming game. Each band performed individually at halftime. The bands were led by drum majors Jennifer Rogers of Sullivan and Teri Zimmer and Angie Duncan, both of Bethany. Read More

•October 3, 2018•

Jon Jividen, Executive Chef from the Sullivan High School Class Of 1968, is returning for Homecoming and wrote this poem he would like to dedicate to the community and to the classmates of 1968.
A Place, A Heart
There is a place where I can go
that whispers to me what I used to know
There is a place that I came from
where memories bloom under the Midwest sun Read More