Text Box: What’s Inside     Item                   Page  All Around Us             2 Library News              2 Perseverance               3 From You                   4 Where Is It?                4 ACCHS Grad             5 Basketball Begins        6 Craft Sale                   6 Monsoon Mitch          6 Effingham City News  7 COOP’s Cardtrol      7 Traditional Lighting     8 Roundup for Hunger   8 Contact Info               8   Text Box: How long have we been going into the Farmers & Merchants and would see the smiling face of Debbie Parnell?  Twenty-five years that’s how long.  She and her co-workers and all those that have served there throughout her 25 years have epitomized what service and loyalty is all about.  Tuesday the 7th, a surprise reception celebrating her years of service was held in the bank lobby.  Friends from all over came by to say thanks and reminisce about the years of  her tenure with the institution.  Gene, Melinda, Brian and Kelly planned for weeks to pull off the surprise.  Debbie admits when she came back to town from her presentation at the Exchange National Bank earlier that AM, that she was totally surprised.  The tears gave that away. Service is a mainstay in a community like this.  Look throughout this issue and note the several ways that people of this community come together to help others.  It is basically what we are all about.  It is like we are all members of a huge family.  Well to some of us we are related but the distinction between real family and our extended family of friends and neighbors is hard to differentiate.  It is how we are raised.  We visit folks who are sick or lonely, we debate and argue about what is best for our schools and then get together and raise money for their support, we start memorials for our dearly departed, have food drives for the unfortunate, go to receptions to say thanks, pray for each other when problems arise and many other things that are too numerous to mention, some good and some not.  All in all living in a town with people like Debbie is why I live here.  I wouldn’t want it any other way.   Text Box: The Ladies of St. Ann Parish by  Alice johnson Text Box:     Link to     Home    Page 1    Page 2  Page 3  Page 4  Page 5  Page 6  Page 7  Page 8  Text Box: Dec. 15, 2004 Text Box: Volume 1 Issue 8 Page 1

 

Text Box: The Spirit of Christmas was alive and well in the St. Ann’s Parish Center, Effingham, December 7th when the Altar Society gathered to fill treat bags for their neighbors. The tables were laden with the bounty brought by the church members when they attended Mass. There was enough to fill the twenty-six bags to the very top. The Altar Society has been remembering their friends in the community for many years.  They have found that by having everyone participate with the project by serving on the committee that fills the bags and on the delivery committee, that they can spread the joy of Christmas throughout the community. Those that give get as much as those that receive.  Those pictured are: Going round the table starting with the front are Eileen Wohletz, Sue Rickenburg, Mary Ann Schrick, Lucille Coder, Mary Wessel, Margaret Diebolt, Leanne Frost, Darla Lanter and Leita Weber.

Text Box: Service is Still Alive

Text Box: The Ladies of St. Ann Parish by  Alice johnson