Valley Datebook
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- Valley datebook: May 31, 2009
- Valley Datebook: May 24, 2009 Fairbanks Park Music and Arts Festival, Fairbanks Park now through Saturday.
- Valley Datebook: May 3, 2009 • “First Ladies” presentation featuring road scholar Sharon Alter, discusses how three different Presidents’ wives helped their husbands and the nation survive three wars, free event, 1 p.m., Edgar County Historical Society Annex, 408 N. Main St., Paris, Ill., (217) 463-5305.
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Poets, listeners pack downtown coffee shop for Poetry at the Grounds
The last syllables of a percolating hip-hop poem still echoed in the minds of the audience. Then Andrea Stevens took her turn at the microphone. Pulling back her long, black hair, Stevens gently recited “Mountains” and “Beauty.” They were two of many original poems Stevens has penned in her 63 years.
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Valley Datebook
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Clark County, Ill.
• Music program celebration, featuring organ, piano and vocal solos, and choir selections, also light refreshment, 2:30 p.m., St. Mary’s Church, 414 S. Sixth St., Marshall, Ill. -
Valley Datebook: April 12, 2009
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Parke County
• Feed the birds, 10 a.m., Blooming Secrets, wildflower video, 10:30 a.m., planetarium star show, 2 p.m., Turkey Run State Park, 8121 E. Park Road, Marshall, Ind., (765) 597-2654. - Valley Datebook: Feb. 22, 2009
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Valley Life briefs: Feb. 15, 2009
• ISU prof to speak at Audubon meeting
• Purcell celebrates her 90th birthday
• Davis to celebrate 88th birthday
• Price treated to surprise party
• Hoke to celebrate 80th birthday
• Horse, tack auction coming up - Extension offers ‘Cool Season Vegetable Gardening’ University of Illinois Extension Clark Unit will offer “Cool Season Vegetable Gardening” at 7 p.m. Thursday via the U of I telenet system and local computer PowerPoint presentations, allowing live discussion between the instructor and gardeners throughout Illinois.
- Valley Datebook: Jan. 11-18 2009
- Valley Datebook week of 12/28
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Valley Datebook: Dec. 21, 2008
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Vigo County
• Fur auction, 10 a.m., Parke County Fairgrounds, 1/2 mile north of Rockville, (765) 562-2704 or (765) 363-4110. -
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Vigo County
n Canned food drive, bring in five or more canned goods and get 10 percent off of total purchase, ends Monday, The Element Outdoor Outfitters, 1026 Wabash Ave., (812) 234-5668. -
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Parke County
• Help feed the birds, 10 a.m., planetarium star show, 2 p.m., Turkey Run State Park, 8121 E. Park Road, Marshall, Ind., (765) 597-2654. -
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Clark County, Ill.
• Food for Fines exchange, library fines waived for late materials by donating food items, Marshall Public Library, 612 Archer Ave., Marshall, Ill., (217) 826-2535. -
Rural Clark County marker official southern starting point of Indiana-Illinois line
The last few minutes of sunlight flicker through the trees along the Wabash River bank.
Bob Colvin isn’t enamored with the scenery, at the moment. He’s bothered, but undeterred by mosquitoes that have just detected a rare appearance of humans in this remote spot, thick with woods, weeds, sand burs and grasshoppers. -
Valley Datebook
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Vigo County
• Shriner’s free children’s screening clinic, ages one month to 18 who need help with burns, bone or muscular problems, 1 to 4 p.m., Zorah Shrine Temple, 420 N. Seventh St., (812) 232-8233. -
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Putnam County
n Gobble-uns weekend, featuring church service 9:30 a.m., and Hillbilly golf tournament, noon, Cagles Mill Lake, Lieber State Recreation Area, Suite 1, 1317 W. Lieber Road, Cloverdale. -
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Clark County, Ill.
n Halloween Past and Present, presented by Clark County Historical Society tour museum, view displays, costumes welcome, 2 to 4 p.m., museum grounds, Fourth and Maple streets, Marshall, Ill., (217) 826-8859 or 826-6321. -
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Edgar County, Ill.
n Lincoln scholar Guy Fraker to speak on Abraham Lincoln’s travels on the 8th Judicial Circuit, 1 p.m., Edgar County Historical Society Annex, 408 N. Main St., Paris, (217) 463-5305. -
Valley Datebook: Oct. 5, 2008
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Clark County, Ill.
• Life Chain formation, an international hour of prayer on behalf of the unborn at risk of abortion, 2 p.m., gathering behind the Vigo County Courthouse, (812) 877-9251 or (812) 466-7594. - Valley Datebook: Sept. 28, 2008
- Valley Datebook: Sept. 21-27, 2008
- Valley Datebook: Sept. 14, 2008
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Valley Datebook
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Parke County
n Mansfield Village Cornbread Festival and Outdoor Sportsman Show, with parade, cornbread bake-off, roller run car show and more, Mansfield. - Valley Datebook: Aug. 10, 2008
- Groups and Gatherings: Aug. 3-9, 2008
- Valley Datebook: July 20-26, 2008
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Clothing judging set at fair
The Clark County, Ill., 4-H program will stage its annual 4-H Clothing judging on Tuesday at the Clark County Extension Office in Marshall.
- Valley datebook: July 13-19
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