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Ugly Sweaters
Larry Edwards expressed his enthusiasm for having the Ugliest Sweater at the Fire and Police Christmas dinner Dec. 3. Kelly Faulkner was the Ugly Sweater Contest emcee, Rob Young (right) was second place.
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Sweet Gift for Food Pantry
Flesor’s Candies partnership with Cathrine’s Gallery for the Moultrie County Food Pantry raised needed holiday funds Nov. 18 while giving Sullivan customers great gifts from Flesor’s candy kitchen. Above Devon Flesor offers Cindy Clore (left) some sweet gift giving choices for stockings. Clore had heard of the annual event and traveled from Rosiclare, Ill. for some Flesor’s chocolates and a chance to donate to the local food pantry.
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Fire Safety
Fireman Kaleb Randol with the Sullivan Fire Dept. visited the CEFS Head Start program recently to talk about fire safety.
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WHS Homecoming Royals
Windsor High School will host a homecoming dance 8-11 p.m. December 9. The theme will be “To the Moon and Back,” and the coronation will take place at 7:30 p.m. at the high school. This year’s royalty are pictured (left to right) freshmen attendants Adilyn McCray and Sam Boyer, sophomore attendants Hannah Morlen and Brandon Milligan, junior attendants Maranda Tarvin and Emil Hartman, queen and king candidates Morgan Lesko, Dalton Armes, Mikayla Haddock, Gage Sattler, Kasey Bean, and Brad Farmer.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”