Day Camps Aid Handicapped Youth In Three Counties
Camps in Perry Randolph and Monroe Counties run under the Western Egyptian Economic Opportunity Council with $12 313 in grants from Illinois Department of Mental Health. About 50 volunteers per camp assist with crafts games and meals as participants aged 4 to 41 attend the Chester Pinckneyville and Ches ter sites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perry
Randolph
Developmental Disabilities Division
Illinois Dept. of Mental Health
Western Egyptian Economic Opportunity Council
Steeleville
Monroe
Monroe County
Perry County
Pinckneyville
Randolph County
Chester
Dorothy Ivanuck
St. Clements Hospital
Red Bud
Joan Smith
Louise Thompson
Sparta
Miss Smith
Mental Health Association
Migrants struggle for work as Illinois peach harvest fades
Migrant families travel from Arkansas to Cobden and Carbondale area in search of picking jobs. With frost damage shrinking crops, growers report labor shortages and migrants note pride in self sufficiency, occasional arrests of illegal workers, and a system shifting away from crew leaders to self procurement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George C. Lester
Paragould
Ark
Southern Illinois
Union-Jackson Farm Labor Association
Cobden
Lester
Lawrence Slusher
Bloomington
Johnson
Wayne Sirles
Randleman
Carbondale
Department of Immigration and Naturalization
Sirles
Camp counselor helps camper share ice treat in Perry County
Refreshments Richard Buck a counselor at the Western Egy Council day camp in Perry County holds camper Diane Brand as she accepts a flavored ice from Bruce Simms both in Pinckneyville. The photo credit goes to Demaris Berry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Buck
du Quoin
Western Egyptian Economic Opportunity Council
Perry County
Diane Brand
Pinckneyville
Bruce Simms
Demaris Berry
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Lloyd Sitter
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