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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1978
Page
6
A garden walk can be useful and attractive and completed in a weekend or over a summer. It explores options from flagstone stepping stones to cement bases, bricks, wood paths, and gravel. The piece gives practical construction tips, base preparation, drainage, and edging to create lasting, affordable walkways.
Parental satire on summer school as a forced confinement. Erma Bombeck notes kids view words differently and cites summer school as a penalty that racks up chores and lost freedom. The piece contrasts adult concerns over safety with a boy’s insistence on getting out of bed and earning a credit.
A narrator laments family strain and a plan to remove children to a military style program for solar heat experiments. The dialogue reveals tension with a parent and personal burnout from a year of study. A character contemplates happiness, anxiety, and the risk of not achieving a hoped for popular success.
The Comprehensive Health Planning in Southern Illinois CHPSI will review a Shawnee Health Service Development proposal at 7:30 p.m. July 12 during its regular meeting at Bend Lake College Student Center. The project would create a West Frankfort primary care practice and recruit physicians, develop an Ava health center, and provide care to migrant and seasonal workers in Jackson Union counties. Written comments are invited by July 3 to CHPSI, 903 S Elizabeth St, Carbondale IL 62901. Contact Bill Cistello at 549-2161 for more information.
The Easter Seal Society of Southern Illinois sponsors a Radio Camp A Thon from 10 am to 6 pm Saturday broadcast live from WEBQ Harrisburg to fund Camp Little Giant for handicapped children ages 6 to 17 on Little Grassy Lake. Harrisburg Rotary and WEBQ co sponsor with volunteers including Harrisburg High Student Council.
The Union of American Hebrew Congregations issued a 70-page 16 week curriculum titled Missionary & Cult Movements for upper grade Jewish religious schools. Rabbi Balfour Brickner said it exposes how proselytizers distort Christianity to confuse Jewish and Christian youths.
Re-elected Beta Psi Chapter president of Epsilon Sigma Alpha International in Murphysboro is noted along with newly elected officers Janet Kimbre Chester Pat McArdle and Daisy Homan seated during Founder's Day by Illinois State Council President Betty Durham. Community events include a rummage sale in Marion, a Jackson County Heart Association meeting in Murphysboro, a Herrin Jaycee Auxiliary car wash fundraiser, art show ribbons at Carbondale Mall, and a Rededication to Life ceremony by Dr Mildred F. Jefferson in St Louis as part of a National Right to Life Convention with workshops and exhibits.
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