Pure as the Driven Snow melodrama at Carbondale high
Teen Scene lists Carbondale Community High School presents Pure as the Driven Snow at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday in the CCHS auditorium with all seats reserved for $1.50. Tickets can be reserved by calling 457-3371. Benton hosts annual marble tournament Sunday with a 1 p.m. parade from the Benton Community Building to Webster Gym, featuring school marble and jack champions and prizes for bikes and pet classifications. Herrin Teen Town opens Friday and Saturday 7 to 11:30 p.m. Music runs to 11:45 p.m. West Frankfort Youth Center offers seventh and eighth graders 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Tuesdays.
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Carbondale Community High School
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Benton
Benton Youth Board
Benton Community Building
Webster Gymnasium
Herrin
West Frankfort
Scouts Set Expo Saturday in Carterville
Almost 1,500 Southern Illinois Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts will gather for Expo 78 Saturday at John A. Logan College in Carterville. Scouts from Mt. Vernon to Cairo will compete in events such as a bike rodeo knot tying starting fires without matches and map reading. Exhibits on Cub Scouting inside the Logan gym and Boy Scouting outside. Tickets are $1 with under 8 free.
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Cub Scouts
John A. Logan College
Carterville
Mt. Vernon
Cairo
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Three area youths named to U.S. military academies
Mitchell M. Miller of Marion will attend the U S Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. Patrick Robertson of Herrin and Everett K McDaniel of Baldwin will join West Point. Miller is Marion High School senior and top of his class with honors and four varsity letters. Robertson is Herrin High senior, Illinois State Scholar, athlete, editor and club member. McDaniel attends Fort Monmouth prep school after Red Bud High School graduation. All three were nominated by Congressmen Percy and Simon.
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Mitchell M. Miller
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Everett K. McDaniel
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CCHS Speech Team Takes Second at Bloomington Tournament
Carbondale Community High School placed second at the Ninth Annual Nov ice Speech Tournament in Bloomington with 37 freshmen and sophomores competing in 11 events under adviser Theodora Bach. Firsts went to Lee Ann Williams Lisa Zimmerman Brian Hall and Carol Ann Runion. other top placements listed, with a follow-up novice tournament scheduled at CCHS featuring teams from nearby towns.
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Carbondale Community High School
Bloomington
CCHS
Theodora Bach
Lee Ann Williams
Lisa Zimmerman
Brian Hall
Carol Ann Runnion
Math clinic opens at SIUC to aid area students
SIUC College of Education will open a mathematics clinic for elementary and secondary students next fall. Janet Scheer, assistant professor, says participants get six hours of diagnostic testing and up to 20 hours of instruction. Tuition is 35 dollars, with scholarships available. Applicants should call May 2, 3, or 4 between 9 and noon. admissions are first come, first served.
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College of Education
Janet Scheer
Siuc Department of Currculum
Gun safety workshops set in Murphysboro series
A three part gun safety workshop series starts at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Jackson County Extension Auditorium Ava Blacktop in Murphysboro with sessions on May 10 and 17. Open to youths under 16 regardless of club membership. attendance at all three and passing an exam grants certification needed for hunting licenses. Illinois Department of Conservation cooperates. instructor is Glenn Seebers. Extension office contact 687-1727.
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Ava Blacktop
Murphysboro
Illinois Department of Conservation
Glenn Seebers
Perry County
Scout troop to honor Vietnam veterans in Herrin window display
Herrin Boy Scout Troop 16 plans a Loyalty Day window display featuring local Vietnam veterans led by Col. John C. Hughes, a veteran of Korea and Vietnam. Hughes will be Loyalty Day parade marshal, with his son Dennis also honored. The display aims to recognize unsung soldiers amid a controversial war. The troop searches for photo of Billy Krantz, a former Scout with three Vietnam tours, now in Germany with the Army.
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Herrin
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Vietnam
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West Frankfort to stage comedy
The Interpreter's Theatre at West Frankfort's Frankfort Community High School presents the comedy Rest Assured by Donald Payton at 7:30 p.m. in the school auditorium. Tickets are 1.50 for adults and 1 for students, available from theatre members or at the door. Tim Claxton stars as Morlock with Jayma Bernhard as his wife. other roles include Mary, Beth Laird, Jessica, Donna Lawrence, Mildred, Sabrina Raymond, and more.
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Interpreter’s Theatre
Donald Payton
Morlock
Tim Claxton
Jayma Bernhard
Mary
Beth Laird
Jessica
Donna Lawrence
Mildred
Sabrina Raymond
Joe Lanconi
Jeff Reed
Luigi Lanconi
Ed McCluskie
Martha
Rhonda Raci
Lucifer
Kevin Trovillion
Miss Akers
Gayla McMillin
George Plew
Mike Hopkins
Schmaltz
Gayla Smith
Dr. Brown
David Green
Mr. Black
Steve Hammers
CCHS presents melodrama Snow, or A Working Girl's Secret
CCHS students stage an old fashioned melodrama Snow or A Working Girl's Secret at 8 p m Friday and Saturday in the CCHS Auditorium. Tickets cost 1 50 with all seats reserved. Cast includes Sherrie Stricklin as Purity Dean Pat Morris as Leander Longfellow Lynn Brown as Mortimer Frothingham and Joanne Mantovani as Imogene Pickets.
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Carbondale
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