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Newspaper
Dixon Telegraph
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1989
Page
6
Upcoming events listed for the Rock River Valley. Contact the Dixon Telegraph at 113 St. Peoria Ave Dixon IL 61021 or call 284-2222 ext 34 to place events. Include calendar entry four days before the event.
A compact schedule lists events across Loveland and Dixon including a St. Luke's Episcopal Church meeting at 5 45 p m, a France Alps Oberammergau film at 7 30 p m, a Lee County Red Cross blood drive 10 a m to 3 p m, John Dashney storyteller at Dixon Public Library 10 a m, Dixon Moose Lodge family night 5 to 7 p m, Euclure event at 7 p m, Alanon Loveland at 8 p m, Overeaters Anonymous at St Paul Lutheran Church 421 S Peoria Ave 7 30 p m, and an Oregon Park District Lego session at Nash Rec Center for K-12 grades.
Rock River Grange holds a 7 30 p m business meeting at Grange Hall. Welcome Wagon Club meets at Deanna Binkley s residence at 7 p m. Dixon Lioness Club hosts dinner and meeting at Brown Shingle at 6 30 p m. AAUW Book Review Group gathers at Marion Hamersmith s home at 1 p m. First Lutheran Church of Ohio sponsors annual sandwich supper at 5 p m. Master Gardeners provide horticulture help at Cooperative Extension office from 9 a m to noon. contact 857 3525. Narcotics Anonymous meets in Loveland at 7 30 p m. Adult Children of Alcoholics also listed.
Loveland hosts an 8 p.m. meeting of the Board of Directors with notice of a Princeton session at 7 30 p.m. The agenda includes governance matters and program oversight at the council office.
Thursday events include story hours at 10 30 a.m. for ages 2 to 6 and 2 30 p.m. for ages 7 and up. Oregon Park District hosts orienteering at Nash Rec Center from 7 30 to 9 p.m. University of Illinois office offers questions 9 a.m. to noon. Call 288-3361.
Friday June 30 events include Ladies and Men’s Bridge at the Senior Center starting 1 p.m. in Oregon Park District activity notes and Pit Stop open to all ages.
Nash Rec Center hosts free vision screening at Hauser Ross Eye Institute and McReynolds Towers from 10 a.m. A Dixon Moose Lodge supper is served at 7 p.m. The Ladies Missionary Circle pie sale runs at Dixon YMCA starting 6 a.m. The note lists multiple scheduling items for local groups and venues.
Public card party at Rock River Grange followed by Noahs Ark Story Hour in Loveland. Open events at Historical Log Cabin Lincoln Statue Drive from 1 30 to 4 30 p m. Haymarket Guild outdoor art show at John Dixon Park from 10 a m to 5 p m.
Seven Acres Antique Village & Museum in Union Illinois launches a large hunt for antiques and collectibles. Manager Randy Donley says they buy items from phonographs to old architectural fixtures and 1950s toys, visiting collectors at home or at the museum. Contact (815) 923-2214 for details.
In Union Illinois the Seven Acres Antique Village and Museum offers the largest Edison collection in the country with working phonographs and a Street of Yesteryear featuring a doctor’s office pawn shop barber shop toy store and telegraph offices. The site hosts Wild West shows Civil War reenactments and a Red Custom and Classic car show among other events. Hours are nine to six daily through October with a full slate of summer and fall happenings.
A Raleigh News and Observer July 25 1976 reader letter recounts 24 years of smoking from age 17 to adulthood. It likens cigarettes to a hearse, warns of tainted lungs, stained teeth, and rising costs, urging teens to avoid starting and adults to quit.
A collection of letters and responses from Ann Landers, including a smoker admitting self-hatred at seventeen, a Hartford flight anecdote about a wife packing old newspapers for a husband, and advice to a frustrated Philadelphia woman about a financially dependent partner. The column stresses personal accountability and offers counseling insights.
The Rock River Grange will hold a business meeting at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Grange Hall with Mr. and Mrs. Murray Newcomer in charge of social hour. The Ladies Missionary Circle of Church of God Abrahamic Faith will run a pie sale starting 6 a.m. Friday at the Dixon Family YMCA.
The Eighth Annual Outdoor Art Show by the Haymarket Guild of Artists will be at John Dixon Park North Galena Avenue from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday with a rain date of July 2. Sixty artists selected by the Guild’s jury will display and sell watercolor oil acrylic pottery glass fiber jewelry wood papier mache and etching. Ribbons and cash awards donated by area merchants will be awarded by judges Keith Zickuhr and Bruce Keller.
The Friends of the Dixon Public Library host a writing contest for children who just completed grades 3 through 6 as part of the Summer Reading Program. Theme is Animals Past and Present with a 300 word limit. Entries due by July 17. contact the Children's Department for details.
About 34 Walnut Grade School students graduated in the eighth grade ceremony at Walnut Community Consolidated Grade School. Rev. John Atherton led the invocation of the Walnut United Methodist Church and the Pledge of Allegiance was recited by the class. Awards were given by Jerry Lange and Ken Wilcoxen, with multiple students receiving American Legion, athletic, and Math Achievement honors. The Rock River Grange to host a 7:30 p.m. card party Saturday in the Grange Hall with all Grange members on the committee.
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