On Monday I finally got to Quincy to stock up the antique mall.  Also shopped Aldi’s as the Macomb Aldi’s is currently closed for construction.  Should be a big help to the other grocery stores in the area. Tuesday…

  Busy week.  Attended an Illinois Education Association Retired planning meeting at the Old Dairy in Macomb on Monday.  That is an interesting place.  I had not been there for years and was really impressed with all the customers and…

  Needed  plants because I was finally able to till a bit of garden last Sunday afternoon.  Bob Kessler, across from Rhodes Mini Mart, has a lot of tomato  and other vegetable plants.  Then stopped by again and got a…

  Finally it seems to have quit raining every day.  I see a lot of farmers in the fields planting their crops though I still see a lot of fields not planted.  Please watch out for farm equipment on the…

  Ruthanne Danielson asked that I let you know that Hills Grove Methodist Church will be having their homecoming celebration on June 23rd.  Worship will begin at 9:15 followed by worship at 10:15 and a pot luck lunch at 12:15. …

  Bruce Morton, local artist from Bowen, had three entries accepted in the Biennial Quad-State Exhibit which was held in Quincy.  Two hundred seventy works were entered and one hundred were chosen to be in the exhibit.  Bruce entered three…

  This week the world said good by to someone whose star did not burn nearly long enough.  Grumpy Cat had to be one of our all time  favorites.  His face could just not help but bring a smile to…

  Many of you have heard of the gospel group “The Chosen Ones”.  I have gone on their Branson trip for seven years.  I was very saddened to get a message last Sunday that Mike Rueter, one of the founders…

  Our sympathy to the family and friends of David Harrison.  He passed away on April 26th.  He had been ill for some time. His brother, Paul Harrison, attends Living Faith UMC and we have been praying for David and…

  For five years Julia Forner and I were the only students in our class at Cherry Grove school located two miles north of Tennessee.  Then in the sixth grade, two boys moved in to our school, Joe Matthews and…