Lions Membership internet hosting Labor Day breakfast
Contents
- 1 Lions Membership internet hosting Labor Day breakfast
- 2 Life Middle Golf Outing registration
- 3 My City: Clint Walker’s recollections of Coles County as pulled from the archives
- 4 Cosmic Blue Comics
- 5 Mattoon Arcade
- 6 Icenogle’s
- 7 Cooks Mills
- 8 Mister Music
- 9 Sound Supply Guitar Throw
- 10 Vette’s
- 11 FutureGen
ARTHUR — The Arthur Atwood Lions Membership is internet hosting a breakfast on Labor Day as a part of the Cheese Competition. The occasion might be held on Monday, Sept. 6, on the Arthur Group Constructing, 120 E. Progress St.
Serving might be from 6-10 a.m. A free will donation might be taken. Menu contains biscuits and gravy, scrambled eggs, milk, juice, and occasional.
The Arthur Atwood Lions Membership contributes to scholar scholarships and varied charities within the space together with native meals pantries and Christmas funds, ball leagues, and the Arthur Grade College backpack program, in addition to Camp Lions, a summer season camp for these with imaginative and prescient and listening to wants. Native actions embody offering eyeglasses and listening to aids for the needy, sponsoring the end-of-summer pool occasion and ALAH submit promenade, and lots of different college actions and neighborhood charities.
For extra data on the breakfast, contact Lion Jennifer Perrine at 217-254-1703 or [email protected]
Life Middle Golf Outing registration
CHARLESTON — Come and help the Life Middle serving seniors in Clark and Cumberland counties on the twelfth annual Life Middle Golf Outing to be held Saturday, Sept. 18, at Bent Tree Golf Course in Charleston.
Tee time is at 1 p.m. for this 18 gap, 1-4 particular person scramble. The $50 per particular person price contains inexperienced charges, cart with snacks, pop/water, dinner, trophies and prizes
Contact the Life Middle at 217-849-3695 to enroll your group.
My City: Clint Walker’s recollections of Coles County as pulled from the archives
Cosmic Blue Comics
From the Nov. 22, 1992, Journal Gazette, this picture of Cosmic Blue Comics in Mattoon; the place I spent just about each Saturday afternoon for about two years. That small again room you see simply off to the proper of the Coca-Cola signal was the place they stored the numerous, and I imply many, long-boxes of again points. I nonetheless personal my bagged copy of “Tales of the Beanworld” challenge No. 1 that I discovered again there. Sadly, this location is now only a “greenspace”.
Mattoon Arcade
Pictured, Shelbyville’s Bob Murray from the June 2, 1982, Journal Gazette, displaying his dominance over the TRON arcade sport on the “Carousel Time” arcade on the Cross County Mall, later to be the Aladdin’s Fort, quickly thereafter to be not a factor anymore. I spent nearly each Saturday at that arcade, maybe with that very same haircut. No overalls, although. I used to be extra of an “Ocean Pacific” type of child.
Icenogle’s
Pictured, from the Nov. 28, 1988, Journal Gazette, Icenogle’s grocery retailer. Being from Cooks Mills, we did not usually store at Icenogle’s…however once we did, whilst a child, I knew it was the way in which a grocery retailer is meant to be in an ideal world, and that is not simply because they’d wooden floors, comedian books on the journal rack, or a lot, and I imply a lot, of buying and selling playing cards in wax packs.
Cooks Mills
I had lengthy since moved away from Cooks Mills by the point this Showcase merchandise about Adam’s Groceries ran within the June 13, 1998, Journal Gazette, however there was a time after I very properly might have been a type of youngsters in that picture; for if it was summer season, and also you had a motorbike, and also you lived in Cooks Mills, that is the place you ended up. Ultimately report, they nonetheless had Tab within the Pepsi-branded cooler within the again. I am severely contemplating asking my cash man if I might afford to reopen this place.
Mister Music
Pictured, from the July 16, 1987, Journal Gazette, this advert for Mister Music, previously situated within the Cross County Mall. I wasn’t shopping for information at that age, however I’d ultimately, and that is the place all of it went down. Should you do not suppose it sounds “cool” to hang around at a file retailer along with your buddies on a Friday evening, a piping-hot driver’s license recent in your pockets, you would be proper. Nevertheless it’s the most effective a geek like me might do. Wherever you might be at the moment, house owners of Mister Music, please know {that a} Minutemen album I discovered in your low cost bin modified my life.
Sound Supply Guitar Throw
Portrait of the creator as a younger man, about to throw a guitar by way of a goal at that yr’s Sound Supply Music Guitar Throwing Contest, from the April 18, 1994, Journal Gazette. Take a look at my grunge-era hoodie, and sure…look fastidiously, these are Air Jordans you see on my ft. Addendum: regardless of what the cutline says, I didn’t win a guitar.
Pictured, clipped from the net archives at JG-TC.com, a photograph from the April 18, 1994, Journal Gazette of Sound Supply Music Guitar Throwing Contest winner, and present JG-TC employees author, Clint Walker.
Vette’s
Right here at the moment, gone tomorrow, Vette’s Teen Membership, from the June 20, 1991, Journal Gazette. I wasn’t “cool” sufficient to hang around at Vette’s again in it is “heyday,” and by “cool sufficient” I imply, “not proficient sufficient in parking zone fights.” If solely I might get a crack at it now.
FutureGen
FutureGen: The tip of the start, and ultimately, the start of the tip, from the Dec. 19, 2007, JG-TC. I want I had been paying extra consideration on the time. I most likely ought to have been studying the newspaper.
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