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Someone to Know: Thomas Altevogt, Toys for Tots coordinator
A retired Marine who now is an instructor of “real world self-defense” is in his seventh year of leading the charge in support of needy → Read More
Teresa Haley is 2019 First Citizen
A woman who is the local and state leader of a national civil rights organization is The State Journal-Register’s 2019 First Citizen.Civil rights → Read More
International Route 66 festival rolls into city this weekend
A festival that started 18 years ago as a grassroots effort continues as an event that draws thousands of people and cars for a weekend noting historic → Read More
Someone to Know: Jacob Western completes musical Eagle Scout project
ROCHESTER — A newly completed Eagle Scout project installed at Rochester Public Library is drawing the attention of kids, parents and an online community thanks to the initiative, drive and stick-to-itiveness of a 17-year-old. Scout Jacob Western has completed an outdoor musical instrument area behind the library’s reading garden at 1 Community Drive.The outdoor musical instrument area has… → Read More
Browning: Women in Banking Conference to benefit Sojourn Shelter
Attendees of the 19th ILLINOIS BANKERS ASSOCIATION’S WOMEN IN BANKING CONFERENCE Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 24-25, will fill beauty bags with items for a local agency, and they invite the public to help with donations. More than 110 attendees of the Women in Banking Conference to be held at the Crowne Plaza, 3000 S. Dirksen Parkway, will be encouraged to bring unopened items (full or sample… → Read More
Fishing Has No Boundaries to host third annual event
A nonprofit volunteer organization that provides recreational fishing opportunities for people with disabilities in central Illinois will present its → Read More
Fundraising effort to benefit 10-year-old liver transplant patient
A family friend of a 10-year-old girl from Chatham is hosting an effort to raise money to help with medical bills and expenses related to the girl’s recent liver transplant. Dawn Ringenberg is encouraging the community to support the family of Morgan Biggers, who had liver transplant surgery June 21.“I’m better now,” Morgan said.Morgan has suffered from ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency… → Read More
Hunger Action Month is September
A food bank that serves 21 counties has joined food banks nationwide to raise awareness during September that 40 million Americans face hunger. → Read More
Ball-Chatham School District principal fights cancer aggressively
CHATHAM — Tammi Kuhn has a drive that compels her to fight her stage 4 colon cancer with an aggressive treatment she travels to New York City to → Read More
Mustangers' regional show Sunday to benefit youth
A 1984 Ford Mustang GT convertible owned by a member of the Central Illinois Mustangers — who sold the automobile and re-purchased it years later → Read More
Deployment ceremony celebrates soldiers
Chief Warrant Officer 4 Lywanda Wynder of Chatham soon will deploy with the Army Reserve to Afghanistan with the knowledge that she’ll miss her → Read More
Tamara Browning: Moving company helps cool the capital
A moving company is in its second year of delivering donated box fans for use by seniors and disadvantaged people. TWO MEN AND A TRUCK has been making deliveries of donated box fans from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. each Wednesday since the beginning of July to Springfield Catholic Charities at 120 S. 11th St. and Senior Services of Central Illinois at 701 W. Mason St.TRAVIS BLANEY, marketing leader for… → Read More
Someone to Know: Laura Anderson is an 'elemental' artist
Artist Laura Anderson took the results of nature’s assault on man-made material and made it her own creation. An artist who repurposes found materials into her paintings, Anderson made a painting that reflects nature.Papers that contained advertising left in a neighborhood and subjected to weeks of adverse weather and driven over by vehicles caught Anderson’s attention and eventually her… → Read More
'Professor Longhair' performs magic with humor, kids' help
Randy Thompson, aka "Professor Longhair," gave Alex Thompson of Springfield an opportunity to realize his love of balloon animals while on stage earlier this week during Professor Longhair’s Magic Show at the Illinois State Fair’s Kids Korner.Alex Thompson, 11 (no relation to Randy Thompson), was welcomed on stage to help with the nails-through-a-balloon magic trick. The aim was to put nails… → Read More
Local food rescue program to launch
Central Illinois Foodbank is developing a food rescue program locally to encourage donations of excess food from businesses, thanks to a $51,500 grant. → Read More
Someone to Know: Stephanie Snyder spearheads Pretzel FEEDS summer lunch program
NEW BERLIN — The care and concern Stephanie Snyder has for children goes beyond her being a mother of two daughters and welcoming other children into her home as a foster parent along with her husband, James. Snyder, 35, leads Pretzel FEEDS (Feeding Each and Every Student During Summer), a summer lunch program for students in New Berlin Community Unit School District 16.In its third summer,… → Read More
Color run Sept. 28 to benefit United Cerebral Palsy
A 5K color run with a theme “Back to the '80s” will be held Sept. 28, to benefit UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY LAND OF LINCOLN. The color run hosted by TEDDY BEAR CHRISTIAN CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER will be held from 9 a.m. to noon at Riverton Field of Dreams, 1100 E. Riverton Road.Event check-in will begin at 9 a.m., with the race starting at 10 a.m.The event will feature a bounce house, fun run for… → Read More
'Stuff the Bus' Saturday benefits needy students; First Day Fund ends
A school-supplies collection program hosted by financial services company Horace Mann Educators Corp. will have a collection day from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. → Read More
Nonprofit selling watercolor prints to benefit Lincoln Prairie Trail
A watercolor artist has donated artwork to help raise funds for a nonprofit with a mission in part to repair and maintain a 14.8-mile asphalt → Read More
Dog walk to benefit animals is Aug. 3
A dog walk initiated by a 10-year-old in 2015 to benefit abused and abandoned animals will be held in Athens. The fifth annual ANIMAL ABUSIVE PROTECTION PROGRAM DOG WALK will be held from 10 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Aug. 3, at Athens Community Park.Proceeds will help offset costs for abused or abandoned animals at MENARD COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL.EMMA WIKER, 14, established the Animal Abusive… → Read More