January 2013

<strong>A Plea for Help from the Frontier</strong>

With Nov. 19 marking the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield is highlighting one letter to, or by, Lincoln, written between the end of Battle of Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, and his famous speech. Each letter represents one of the many issues Lincoln had to face as chief executive of the nation during its greatest crisis.

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Colleen Corzine Garrott, 96, of Anna, died at 3 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013, at Union County Nursing Home in Anna.

Born Thelma Colleen Corzine on Oct. 8, 1916, she was one of six children of James Earl and Sarah Elnora Howell Corzine. She was born and raised in the Balcom community. She attended Balcom School and graduated from Anna-Jonesboro Community High School in 1934.

The Trail of Tears Lodge & Resort is planning to have a 25th anniversary celebration Sunday afternoon, Sept. 29.

The celebration will be from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Trail of Tears is located at 1575 Fair City Rd. near Reynoldsville in southwest Union County.

The lodge plans to debut its new Signature Wines. Activities will include a presentation by Trail of Tears Lodge & Resort winemaker Matt Mollett and free wine tasting.

Homemade fudge samples from Trail of Tears’ own Sweets & Treats Fudge Factory are planned.

With the imminent arrival of autumn, Anna city officials are continuing to look at a way to dispose of yard waste and tree limbs.

The issue was revisited at last week's regular meeting of the Anna City Council. The meeting was Tuesday evening, Sept. 17, at Anna City Hall.

The city recently discontinued the pick up of yard waste. The move was taken after action taken by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency which prohibits the city from burning yard waste at the site of its now-closed municipal landfill north of Anna.