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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1962
Page
6
Robert Bjorklund of Riverdale will sing with the Illinois Bell Telephone Chords at the 41st Spring Music Festival closing at Orchestra Hall Friday at 8 15 p m The program features local performers and the chorus from Illinois Bell Telephone.
A 75 voice chorus of Bell System employees in the Chicago area performs year round at veterans hospitals churches and civic groups without charge. Tickets available from chorus members at Orchestra Hall door or by calling 727-4484. Sorrows is a sweet joy that comes to us through sorrow. -Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
Thornton and Thornridge seniors reflect on 1961 62 as a meaningful high school era. Commencement for Thornton’s class of 62 occurs at 8 a.m. with 64 graduates. yearbooks from both schools praised as tremendous. Beginning June 14 Thursday night record hops at Riverdale Park on the tennis courts feature a new show with Jan Gabriel each week.
Two cars backed from spaces in the Jewel Tea Co parking lot at 144th and Atlantic Riverdale collided. Drivers Florence Palmer 117 B 140th Ct Riverdale and Dontra M Fexats 445 Luella Calumet City were involved.
Troop 320 sponsored by Thanhne Community Methodist Church hiked 17 miles along the Illinois Michigan Canal at Channahon State Park as its monthly outing. Scoutmaster Tomer Sutton awarded medals and watches to Ernest Sutton Phil Poninski Lee Ekstrom Keith Sutton Greg Anderson Mark Fraser Tom Guystrom Tom Malcom David Smith along with Gary Vann Gary Moser Bruce Buffie Paul Bechtolt Warne Terwilliger Mike Duffy Ronald Soderquist Danny Wunderlich. Adults included Scoutmaster Homer M Sutton committee chair CFE Soderquist and committeemen Robert Anderson Martin Ekstrom Don Wunderlich and Neil Fraser. They plan to take the Chief Blackhawk Trail in October for First Class or above.
Daily Vacation Bible School will run at Ivanhoe Reformed Church from June 11 to 22 with sessions 9:30 to 11:30 am for kindergarten through ninth grade. No registration fee, crafts and songs, closing ice cream and awards. Mrs Helen Jansma directs with assistants and June Roads plays piano. Also notes on Lambert attending Synod meeting in Buck Falls and the Men’s Brotherhood year-end supper and officers, plus a Mother and Daughter Tea on June 10 at 3 pm.
The Rev Frank E Sterbin will use The Acknowledgement of the Mystery of God in Colossians 2 2 as the sermon. Services are at Lincoln School auditorium W151 Lincoln Dalton every Sunday at 11 am with Sunday school at 945 am for all ages.
A pithy religious reflection cites the grace of God in Christ, urging victory over self and universal welcome, attributed to Francis Bacon.
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