Hardin County Main Street launches county website
Hardin County unveils its own site at hardincountyil.org created by Hardin County Main Street and Imagine Design. It features a Community Information section with history demographics and a business directory plus a Things to Do and See guide with maps day trips and local attractions. The site highlights county festivals lodging dining and shopping and includes Civil War reenactment details during the Heritage Festival in Elizabethtown. Funding comes from bed tax dollars and a state Marketing Partnership grant.
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Hardin County
Hardin County Main Street
Imagine Design
Hardincountyil
Elizabethtown
State of Illinois
Bureau of Tourism
Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity
Hardincountyil.org
Crab Orchard Wildlife Family Program and Local News
Crab Orchard Wildlife will present a live great horned owl during the Families Understanding Nature FUN Program from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Visitor Center. Free Again Wildlife Rehab offers a monthly animal, with education activities, at Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge run by a nonprofit rehabilitating native wildlife. The Illinois Sheriff's Association will award 105 scholarships for 2004-05 to full time Illinois residents in higher education, with applications due March 15. Southern Illinois authors John and Susan Dunphy discuss Lewis and Clark Illinois Volunteers, with bios of 14 men, at Carbondale bookstores. publisher contact provided. Union County Historical and Genealogy Society met Feb. 23, reelecting directors Patrick Brumleve, Pat Meller, Mike Jeremiah, and naming Judy Travelstead, Jane Brown, Bonnie Heidinger, Paulette Aronson.
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Crab Orchard
Crab Orchard Wildlife
Free Again Wildlife Rehabilitation
Free Again Wildlife
Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge
National Wildlife Refuge
The
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Refuge Service
Southern Illinois
Illinois Sheriff's Association
Illinois
Ilsheriff.org
John and
Susan Dunphy
Fort Massac
Metropolis
Fort Kaskaskia
Kaskaskia River
Lewis and Clark
Illinois Volunteers
Bookworm
Rosetta Stone
Carbondale
Second Reading
Union County
Union County Historical and Genealogy Society
Patrick Brumleve
Cobden
Pat Meller
Anna
Mike Jeremiah
Alto Pass
Judy Travelstead
Jane Brown
Bonnie Heidinger
Herrin
Paulette Aronson
Perry County Historical Society bake sale fundraiser planned
The Perry County Historical Society hosts its annual benefit rummage and bake sale April 2 and 8 at the Pinckneyville museum. Hours run 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. on April 2 and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on April 3. Donations of baked goods and sale items are welcomed with no clothing accepted. A fabric sale and furniture pickup service are offered.
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Perry County
Perry County Historical Society
Pinckneyville
Perry County Jail Museum Committee
Kevin Kern
New $5000 Miss Southern Sweetheart Pageant at John A. Logan
A new Miss Southern Sweetheart Scholarship Pageant, a feeder to Miss Illinois, will be held March 26 at John A. Logan College auditorium. Open to single women 17 to 24 in the 618 area, first prize is 3000 dollars plus tiara and trophy. remaining 2000 split among runners up. Contestants judged in interview, swimsuit, talent, and evening wear with local entertainers providing extra entertainment.
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Carterville
John A. Logan College
Bobby Don Sullenger
Herrin
Sullenger
Deanna Freeman
Lauren Arnett
John A. Logan
Brittany High Moseman
Hillary High Renda
Hillary
Illinois
Moseman
Federal retirees to meet Tuesday in Carbondale
The Greater Egypt Chapter 1097 of NARFE will meet at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday in the Ponderosa Restaurant private dining room at 1232 E Main St Carbondale. Guest speaker Pat Smart, The Southern Illinoisan columnist and Master Gardener, will discuss food origins.
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Carbondale
Southern Illinois
Greater Egypt
The
National Association of Retired Federal Employees
NARFE
Ponderosa Restaurant
Main St
Pat Smart
Southern Illinoisan
Smart
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Thesouthern
Historical Meeting
Perry Historical Society
Logan
John D. Homan
Bailie’s
Monroe
North 14Th Streets
Brittany Moseman
Dallas Lane
Marion
Mike Murphy
John.homan
Can
Ed Blair
Edward Oliver
Christi Mathis
Byassee
Samick
Kawai
Kohler
Campbell
Roland
Charles Walters
Yamaha
Technics
Byassee Keyboard & Sound
Hickory Ridge Public
W. Glenn Rd
PING
Titelist
Nike
Top-Flute Company
SIU
Saluki
Sun & Mon
Hickory Ridge
Golf Digest
Hickory Ridge Pro Shop
Titleist
Taylor
Nike - Cutter Buck & Others
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