Fort Madison Daily Democrat (Newspaper) - April 23, 2007, Fort Madison, Iowa Cheryl Untz Agency 1927 Avenue L Fort IA 52627 319 3726523 AMERICAN FAMILY INSURANCE A your protection under one roof Fort Madison Daily April 2007 DEM CRAT Issue 202 I 2 Pages I Section Fort Iowa 52627 YMCA campaigns for scholarship funds Joe Benedict Staff Writer Part of the mission is to not turn anyone away who doesnt have the ability to of takes The Youth Annual Sustaining Campaign will help defer the costs of ing services to financial aid The campaign kicked off on Thursday with the goal of raising for the Jason Jones director of the Fort Madison YMCA said that last year the Y provided in financial assis One of the reasons this is YMCA so important is that we wouldnt be able to subsidize the number of people we do without Jones About 25 percent of mem bers or 550 people receive financial assistance for About 100 people receive financial assis tance for youth sports pro Half of the students attending Y preschool receive financial Jones said the drive cur rently has 30 He would like to see that number go up to about The teers will make with friends and acquaintances to ask for donations toward the The campaign runs through May One event has been set up so far to boost dona will have a cookout on May 5 from 10 to 2 is donating meat to be barbe cued and the Y also be taking donations that Jones said other events will be announced as they are Some donors will receive some special Any donor who contributed or more will get a photo in the Donors who give or more will be listed in the program Jones said the goal for this year is almost double what the Y raised last A full campaign wasnt held last year because of the change of which occurred around the time of the annu al He said that campaign focused on people who had donated The YMCA still received in donations from that Jones said the money will help the YMCA continue to build strong strong fam ilies and strong Each year the Fort Madi son Family YMCA provides hundreds of deserving youth and families thousands of dollars in much needed finan cial Jones Our campaign goal is higher this year than previous years our depressed economy there are more peo ple in need of assistance right now than ever from left Addison Kim Marlin and Emily Korschgen spread around one of several trees lining the driveway at Lee County Conservations Heron At Right Taylor a second grade pushes out of a wheelbarrow at Lee County Conser Heron Bend on Saturday More than 70 girls and 20 adults joined in the Earth Day The Girl Scouts pulled planted prairie put down fabric mats and mulch and built bluebird houses to be put in county and County Market donated drinks and cookies for the event and the Girl Scouts were glad to have Lee County Conservation offer its park for the Thurman Music donates guitar to help local family The Daily Democrat Thurman Music has donated a cus tom guitar to be raffled off at the 2007 Simply the Blues scheduled for May 11 and May For the past two years Thurman Music has donated to the Nemaline Myopathy Foundation in Jeremy Thurmans donating almost to the not includ ing the of the guitar and custom Thurman Music also donates all of their sales from the festival as Jeremy was initially diagnosed with NM when he was almost oneyear He has recently been with a con dition similar to With this years festival approaching Thurman Music owner Joe Thurman was at a difficult place with the dona Joe decided to keep this years donation local after hearing about a young boy who passed away from cancer in January 2006 of Hodgkins Due to funeral and bur ial expenses he does not yet have a All 1 could think about was my son and what I would want for Thurman This years donation will go to the Casper Reyes Headstone Fund and the money will be used towards a headstone for Casper was 12 years old and a huge fan of the Halo video He was anxiously awaiting the release of Casper lost his battle with cancer and never got to play the new Halos tagline is Finish the That is the goal this year to help his parents Casper and Heather Finish the Fight for Casper Heather This is the only way I have to take care of my son now the only battle we have All money raised from sales of raf fle tickets as well as sales from the Thurman Music booth at Simply the Blues will go towards a headstone for This years guitar has custom graphics by Eagle Graphics of Fort It has the HaloS logo and Finish the Fight on the pick guard as well as Simply the Blues The guitar will be signed by all of the per formers at the festival and those buy ing raffle tickets need not be present to Tickets are each or two for Tickets may be purchased at Thur man Music or all weekend long at the Simply the Blues Private donations may also be made to The Casper Reyes Headstone Fund at Madison Bank and Simply the Blues 2007 performers include living legends again this year and are as follows Otis Hubert Sumlin with Willie Big Eyes Smith David Honeyboy Michael Hamilton Eric Mississippi Jimmy Sean Carney Band 2007 Bad Luck The Juke Joint Hal Reed and Daniel Second Skinny Blues and Matt Wood and The Thunderbolts host Experience the night Lincoln was shot Cindy lutzi MVM News Network A experience will occur April at the Grand The atre in Keokuk in conjunction with the 20th anniversary of the Battle of Pea Ridge Civil War President Abraham Lincoln will attend a wine and cheese party from 7 to 8 at on North Sixth after which he and his wife Mary Todd will attend the abridged version of the Our American The wine is provided by Baxters Winery of and Heartland Harvest Win Fort Daves Old Fashion Meats of Montrose and are fur the Strawberries 600 of them will be ready for dipping in melted chocolate served in two Each person attending the festivities will be given a 20th anniversary wine During the enter will be provided in the section of North Sixth Street by local musician Tom Bob Welch of Dubuque and Professor Far quar and Polecat Our American Cousin origi nally was presented at Fords Washington This performance is the second time the play has been offered in The first performance was in an unforgettable event for Wes board member of the Keokuk Area Convention and Tourism You know its not Pohorsky And you know its a But I honestly sat there believing I was in the theater and every thing was Even knowing that at that point in the play John Wilkes Booth will assas sinate the president of the United youre as shocked as if you didnt know You Just feel like you took a giant step back in because everything is This time the experience is being taken a couple of steps See Page 12 Features People Community Seeing America In todays American Profile youll meet Steve and Paula Boone of The founders of the 50 States Marathon Club have seen much of the nation on often running along side other members of the A cookbook with its own Martha Wolf autographs her Ivy Bake Shoppe Cookbook at The Book The book is on sale at The Bookmark 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