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Enjoy Thanksgiving in your community
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Enjoy Thanksgiving in your community with your family and friends
Several communities throughout Williamson County will do their best to make Thanksgiving a special day. For those who live in Johnston City, the first community Thanksgiving Dinner will be served at the High School, from 11:00 a.m until 2:00 p.m. This special community feast in Johnston City, will be the first in recent memory. For those home-bound in Johnston City, deliveries of meals will begin shortly after 10:00 a.m. Thanksgiving Day.
Marion's, Ministerial Alliance invites the public to Thanksgiving Dinner. Volunteers from the St. Joseph Catholic Church youth group will prepare and serve the meal at the Marion Ministerial Alliance building, located at 103 East Calvert Street in Marion. Meal service begins at 11:30 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day and continues until 1:00 p.m. If you are home-bound, please call the Alliance to schedule a delivery.
Herrin and Energy residents look forward to the Thanksgiving meal prepared and served each year in their community. The public is invited to dinner at the Herrin Civic Center for the 2008 Ed Quaglia Memorial Herrin Thanksgiving Dinner, which is served from 11:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m.
Meals will be delivered to home-bound persons residing in Energy and Herrin, who are unable to dine at the Civic Center. To arrange a home delivery, please call the Herrin City Clerk, Marlene Simpson, in advance.
The late Mayor, Ed Quaglia, started the dinner in 1988, as a way to initiate friendship and conversation among people who might otherwise view Thanksgiving as simply another day.
Those who wish to visit with family and friend in Carterville, the Carterville Civic Center will be the site of their community Thanksgiving meal. The feast will be served from 11:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. The public in the Tri-C area (Carterville, Crainville and Cambria) are invited, and reservations may be made by calling the Carterville Water Office at 985-2011 or the First Baptist Church at 985-3040. Reservations are required and must be made by Thursday, Nov. 20.
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Worlds of barbering & retro music come together seamlessly
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This story was featured in the November, 2008 issue of Marion Living Magazine
“Feel free to bring your guitar and jam awhile, too. We’re always Rockin’ at the Chop Shop.”
The first thing a customer notices just before they walk into the “Chop Shop” barber shop on Market Street, just a few blocks north of the Marion’s downtown Tower Square, is the old-fashioned barber’s pole which points customers to the door.
Once inside, it is obvious that this is an old-fashioned, no-frills barber shop. No fancy lace curtains or canned music for proprietor Randy Hill (shown playing the upright bass in photo): instead his décor is straight off the cover of a 1950’s rockabilly album: old flat-top guitars and stand-up acoustic basses are the principal eye-catchers, but the shelf above the barber chair sports over a dozen vintage hub caps. Rockabilly posters paper the walls.
At the Chop Shop, the worlds of barbering and retro music come together seamlessly.
Early one Saturday afternoon in September, Deborah Craig of Vienna, and her son, Ted Jr., came to Adam’s Shoe Store to buy a pair of boots. The Shoe Store is located just a bit north of the Square in Marion.
While shopping at Adam’s, Deborah heard music playing, and it was coming from next door. After making their purchases, the two left the shoe store. They followed the sound of the music next door, and entered the Chop Shop.
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Some helpful ways to stay warm in the outdoors
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This story was featured in the November, 2008 issue of Marion Living Magazine
Hunting or hiking in the outdoors is a great place to be in Williamson County. But your enjoyment will be better if you are careful to avoid the health problems associated with exposure due to poor preparedness.
Here in Southern Illinois, hunting and fishing continue into the colder months, as do other popular outdoor activities.
As people enjoy some of the activities at the Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge, it is important to dress warmly and be prepared for changing conditions. There are a number of activities planned at the Refuge which will keep visitors out in the elements for extended periods of time. Among them are the Annual Bird Count, Eagle Days, and general wildlife watching activities.
The mild winters in our region can give way to cold, wet, ice and snowy conditions on what seems to be a minute’s notice. People enjoying some form of outdoor recreation on a mild afternoon can get into trouble as evening or a front changes the temperatures.
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MHS Homecoming Queen and Court 2008
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MARION — The week of Homecoming in Marion is special, like it is for many communities across the nation. People return home for their Class Reunions and to visit with folks, and to see how Marion has grown.
The Annual Homecoming Parade through downtown Marion, is a great tradition which brings about thoughts of a different time, when many of those lining the streets were marching or riding along the route during Parades past. Amongst the colorful floats, marching bands and scores of support for the hometown football team, were convertibles which inched along and carried the Queen candidates or others from their Court.
The 2008 Marion High School Homecoming Queen Candidates were:
Erin Aikman, Sunshine Hammond, Kiley Herrmann, Rachel Maragni, Ashton Plumer, Meghan Reed and Kileigh Rousey.
Ashton Plumer was selected as this year's 2008 Homecoming Queen. Follow this link to view Ashton and the other Queen candidates along with the entire Court from the 2008 Marion High School Homecoming festivities.
Click here for photographs from the Parade introducing the 2008 Marion Wildcat Homecoming Queen and Court pictures!
A complete list of the Marion High School 2008 Homecoming Attendants follows on the next page —
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Charged to guard Minister of Japan, Hideki Tojo
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This story was featured in the November, 2008 issue of Marion Living Magazine
Wayne Verble, now of Valprasio, Indiana, was stationed on the Japanese island of Omori, where once captured British soldiers were held. At the end of World War II, Omori was occupied by Allied Forces, holding Japanese Officers on the island who were being tried as war criminals.
On July 11, 1926, Silas and Jessie Harrison Verble became parents of a bouncing baby boy and named him Wayne Harrison Verble. Wayne had several siblings and grew up in and around Trimble, Tenn. In 1937, the Mississippi flood chased the family out of Tennessee, settling in Vandusen, Mo. without the father, who had left the family.
In the meantime Mrs. Verble had remarried a man named Neely and reared her children in Missouri.
Wayne had an older half-brother, named Leon Michael who had come to Marion and found work with the Egyptian Roofing Co. And about 1940, Wayne moved to Marion, to work with his brother in the roofing business. It was in Marion that in November, 1944, Wayne was inducted into the United States Army.
He was processed at Ft. Sheridan, Illinois, and transferred to Ft. Hood, Texas, where he underwent his basic training and learned to be a rifleman with a tank destroyer company. At the end of his training, Wayne was given a furlough allowing him to return to Marion, where he asked for the hand of one Katherene Baggott, daughter of James Baggott and Elizabeth Shadowens Baggott (of Carbondale).
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A few colorful images from fall
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Nothing more than a back-lit leaf, or a cluster of colors left clinging to the season. Autumn in Southern Illinois affords a seemingly never ending rainbow of colors.
Enjoy a few images from around the tree-lined streets and roads here in Southern Illinois. Check this link to view other images related to autum and the changing of the colors of nature.
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