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Rotary Planting Help

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Rotary Planting Help
Sullivan Rotary Club donated 13 Sycamore and Tulip Poplar trees for homes in the Habitat for Humanity subdivision, and last week Scott Bales’ Sullivan Middle School fifth hour physical education class grabbed shovels to help with the planting. Keith Fryman, John Voyles, Zach Dalbey, Justin Gilbert and Dmitiri Tull got to relocate a Blue Spruce and replace it with a new Sycamore tree. The Sullivan Rotary tree planting program is made possible with the help of a $1500 grant from District Rotary.

Skyzone Math Exercise

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Skyzone Math Exercise
Okaw Valley’s tech math class took a field trip to Skyzone in Springfield recently. The students examined different math and science applications which included calorie burn, percent of increase of heart rate, volume of foam pit, number of foam squares , angle of incline for the crazy ladder, long jump, trampoline jump height and basketball free throw.

Sparrow Volunteers

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Sparrow Volunteers
Volunteers of all ages, including Moultrie County Circuit Judge Brad Rau, gathered Saturday, Nov. 18 for the annual Sparrows Unlimited fruit basket prep and delivery day. In all, 150 baskets were assembled and delivered in and around Lovington. Sparrows’ 23rd annual fundraising auction will be held December 2 at Jerry’s East End in Lovington.

Turkey Time

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Turkey Time
Sullivan IGA delivered 100 turkeys purchased as a result of customer donations received during the annual roundup fundraiser for the Moultrie County Food Pantry just in time for Thanksgiving. IGA Shoppers rounded up their tickets, donating toward the turkey purchases. On Monday Nov. 20 IGA meat dept. employees Seth Cobb, meat dept. manager Barry Golden, Emmalee Hortenstine, Gary Portwood and Matt Martin joined Food Pantry Director Kristy Dawson displaying some of the items received in the Thanksgiving basket from the Food Pantry.Those turkeys went out to 100 families who had signed up previously with the Moultrie County Food Pantry. Included in that Thanksgiving basket from CEFS are ingredients for green bean casserole , stuffing mix, noodles and chicken broth, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn, marshmallows and yams, fruit, cranberry sauce, pumpkin filling and pie crust mix.

OVHS and EIU Dual Credit

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OVHS and EIU Dual Credit
Thirty Okaw Valley Dual Credit Students visited Eastern Illinois University recently to meet with professors and tour the campus. Okaw Valley is currently partnering with EIU in two dual credit classes, speech and U.S. History, during the fall semester.
Three more dual credit classes will be taught in the spring at OVHS which include Environmental Science, English 3 (Brit Lit), and the second semester of U.S. History.
Okaw Valley juniors and seniors have a total of 15 dual credit hours available through EIU to go along with the 60 dual credit hours already offered through Lake Land College.

Okaw Valley Celebrate Veterans Day

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Okaw Valley Celebrate Veterans Day
Okaw Valley celebrated Veterans Day November 10 with a breakfast and districtwide assembly.
The keynote speaker was Col. Bob Mitchell. Col. Mitchell spoke to the entire district on the importance of Veterans Day and the importance of supporting military families.
Col. Mitchell also highlighted his experience while being an aviator in Vietnam which was documented in the Book, A Time to Honor, Stories of Service, Duty, and Sacrifice.
Mitchell spent 30 years in the Army and stated in the book, “The reason I stayed is because of what I found in the Army. I found guys who were willing to die for me, and I willing to die for them.”

Gold Slips at SES

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Gold Slips at SES
Staff at Sullivan Elementary School recognizes students who go above and beyond expectations by giving them a “Gold Slip.” Gold Slip winners for the month of October are pictured. From left to right they are Addison Hullum who stayed after lunch to clean up someone else’s ketchup spill to keep the cafeteria safe and clean, Elijah Dalbey who noticed that a few students were sitting on the side at recess not playing and invited each student to play ball tag with him and his other friends, Donovan Collins and Brady Beck who volunteered to write an extra Veterans Day invitation, willingly giving up recess to do so and Issac Reider who volunteered to give his jacket to a classmate who was very cold in their classroom.

Sullivan Rotary Plants

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Sullivan Rotary Plants
The Habitat for Humanity subdivision is getting additional landscaping courtesy of the Sullivan Rotary Club. On Tuesday, Nov. 7 club members planted 13 Sycamore and Tulip Poplar trees at various homes in the subdivision. Pictured from left to right: Dennis Ozier, Julia Beals, Susan Rauch, Rotary president Dan Fultz and Dave Cole. The tree planting program is assisted by a District Rotary grant the local club received.

Scouting for Food

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Scouting for Food
Sullivan Scouts Wyatt and Will Miller place a bag on the door of a Sullivan home during the annual Scouting for Food bag distribution. Residents are asked to place any items they wish to donate to the Moultrie County Food Pantry in bags or boxes and place them where they may be seen from the road by 9 a.m. Saturday, November 11 for pickup.

Honoring Honor Guards

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Honoring Honor Guards
Sullivan American Legion Post 68 members helped with the 2017 WCIA and Sunset Funeral Home fund-raiser for Honor Guard groups who preform military rites for the families of deceased veterans. From left to right are Bob Sims, Marty Reynolds, Rick Darby of Sunset Funeral Homes, Mac Bond and Mike Keown.