The Moultrie County Beacon is a Shining Light

“So shines a good deed in a weary world.” Quietly said by Willy Wonka towards the end of the original or Gene Wilder version of the film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, these eight words exemplify a special part of my summer - the part that I spent working with the people of the Moultrie County Beacon.

In this weary world of ours, it is sometimes hard to find the joy, find the kindness, find the love, and find the shining good deeds.

But, much like many Sullivan citizens have recently been finding beautiful rocks as a part of the incredible Sullivan Rocks movement, I found all of those things and many more while working for the Beacon as a part of a class I was taking at Eastern Illinois University.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.