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ALAH FCCLA had two students, Juniors Jessica Renfro and Megan Osborne attend the conference along with adviser, Ginger Voegel.

•May 16, 2018•

The Illinois Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) held the annual State Leadership Conference in Springfield. The conference was held on  April 12-14 at the BOS Convention Center, the President Abraham Lincoln Hotel and the Wyndham Hotel.

There were more than 2000 students, advisers and guests in attendance. More than 900 of those students participated in the State Proficiency and STAR Competitive Events. Attendees also had the opportunity to listen to workshop presentations on current topics. The election of the 2018-2019 Illinois Association of FCCLA State Officers also took place during the conference.

Illinois FCCLA partnered with the Illinois Department of Child and Family Services for their community service project. FCCLA members from across the state made monetary contributions, made birthday cards and donated gift cards for the project. The money collected was used to purchase smoke and carbon monoxide detectors for foster care families.

The keynote speaker for the conference was Ryan Moran of Columbus, Ohio. David Dean of Fort Wayne, Ind. provided the Friday night entertainment with a hilarious comedy routine.

•May 16, 2018•

At their homecoming banquet September 29, the Lovington Alumni Association will honor the five local businesses who display LHS trophies.

Even before the Lovington High School building was torn down, community businesses were planning ways to keep the trophies and other memorabilia that had formerly been displayed in the LHS halls and foyers for decades.

Ray Duncan, chairman of the board of Hardware State Bank, first suggested the idea of housing the trophies at the library, phone company and elevator.

“I had seen my former high school and other schools that had been merged store their trophies in closets or lose them,” Duncan said.

Duncan thought the bank was the perfect place to house the basketball and volleyball trophies. He had coached Lovington’s boys’ basketball teams three different times, leading the high school to three regional championships and three conference championships. He also coached the junior high boys’ team for two years prior to the annexation of the school district. Read More

50 Years Ago This Week

Billy Standerfer and Denise Horsman were crowned king and queen of the annual junior/senior prom at Sullivan High School.

Those people who still call the restaurant on S. Washington Street in Sullivan The East Side Grill will have even more trouble after mid-May when it will become The Red Fox. Fin Pifer, proprietor of Fin’s Townhouse, and Bernard Fox, president of F & F Laboratories of Chicago, expect to agree shortly on terms which will transfer ownership of the restaurant to Fox.

Selling 100 or more boxes of cookies during the annual Girl Scout Cookie Sales were Susie Florini, Jayne Reed, Kim Shasteen, Jody Grant, Rebecca Ellen Ray, Leesa Willis, Penny Grohler, Paula McKenzie, Laura DeVore, Belinda Ray and Mary Ferguson.

Deborah Montgomery of Lovington was a winner in the Youth To Washington essay contest sponsored by Coles-Moultrie Electric Cooperative. Read More