STRASBURG — The Strasburg American Legion Auxiliary will once more be amassing gadgets for Illiana VA in Danville.
Gadgets being collected are:
TOILETRIES: shaving cream (not gel), stick deodorant, razors, combs, physique powder; Chapstick, child oil.
TRAVEL SIZE: shampoo, conditioner, physique wash, lotion, deodorant, powder
ACTIVITIES: fashions (vehicles, tanks, airplanes, ships), mannequin paint, mannequin glue, 8×10 and greater canvases, acrylic paint, craft kits (wooden, jewellery, needlepoint, playing cards, soaps), latch hook, coloured pencils, massive print puzzle books, grownup coloring books,
MISC: Enfamil AR cans, sneakers, new denims (all sizes), belts, hats, coats, sweats
ITEMS NOT NEED AT THIS TIME: greeting playing cards, used garments, enjoying playing cards, bar cleaning soap.
ITEMS FOR CHRISTMAS BAGS FOR HOMEBOUND VETERANS: (by the Mattoon VA Heart): toothbrushes, common measurement toothpaste, massive print puzzle books, particular person chips, arduous sweet, sweet bars, crackers, snack truffles, cookies and towel/hand towel/washcloth units.
Neighborhood members might take gadgets to the Village Workplace on a Monday, Wednesday, or Thursday. Workplace hours in October will probably be sporadic, so these wishing to donate ought to contact Linda D. Oakley, village of Strasburg administrative clerk and treasurer, at 217-644-3007 or at info@strasburgil.com.
My City: Clint Walker’s reminiscences 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 nearly each Saturday afternoon for about two years. That small again room you see simply off to the fitting of the Coca-Cola signal was the place they stored the various, and I imply many, long-boxes of again points. I nonetheless personal my bagged copy of “Tales of the Beanworld” problem 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 Citadel, 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 after we did, at the same time as a child, I knew it was the best way a grocery retailer is meant to be in an ideal world, and that is not simply because they’d wooden flooring, comedian books on the journal rack, or lots, and I imply lots, 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 once I very nicely may have been a type of children 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. Eventually report, they nonetheless had Tab within the Pepsi-branded cooler within the again. I am significantly contemplating asking my cash man if I may 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. In the event you do not assume it sounds “cool” to hang around at a report retailer together with your buddies on a Friday night time, a piping-hot driver’s license recent in your pockets, you would be proper. However it’s the perfect a geek like me may do. Wherever you’re right now, homeowners 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 writer as a younger man, about to throw a guitar by a goal at that 12 months’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 toes. 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 right now, 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 may get a crack at it now.
FutureGen
FutureGen: The tip of the start, and ultimately, the start of the top, from the Dec. 19, 2007, JG-TC. I want I had been paying extra consideration on the time. I in all probability ought to have been studying the newspaper.
