Marshall City Band Concert
MARSHALL – The Marshall City Band will perform at 8:00 pm Friday, June 17 on the Clark County Courthouse Lawn hosted by Heather Setzer.
The concert will feature “March of the Gladiators”, “The Little Mermaid”, “Irish Melody from County Derry”, “Around the World in 80 Measures”, “Freedom March”, “Abington Ridge”, excerpts from “Hairspray”, “Sunrise at Kentucky”, “Drunken Sailor”, “Klaxon”, a performance of “Il Nostro Ragazzo Dolce” (“Our Sweet Boy”), a song written and performed in memory of Drew Keown, who played clarinet in the Marshall City Band. for six years and ended with the Stars and Stripes Banner.
In conjunction with the concert this week, there will be an ice cream meetup along with popcorn from the Lion’s Club popcorn van. The Marshall Area Chamber of Commerce Farmers Market is open from 4:00 pm to 7:30 pm in the square in front of the Courthouse.
Saturday market in Arthur
ARTHUR – Arthur’s Third Saturday Market will continue on Saturday, June 18th at the Otto Center, 2058 CR 1800 E from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, welcoming ladies from the Rainbow Hearts Center in Arthur.
The center is designed for Amish children with various disabilities. They will be serving lunch for the benefit of the Center. For lunch there will be cheese soup, cakes and cinnamon rolls, as well as fresh eggs from the farm.
Due to the lack of internet access, the Otto Center only accepts cash and checks.
For more information, contact Joanne Blackwell at blackwell.joann@ymail.com.
embarrassment volunteer work day
CHARLSTON. Embarrass Volunteer Stewards will spend the day from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM on Saturday, June 18 at Charleston Lake to help with the City Butterflies initiative.
Participants will remove the goldenrod plantations from the red barn at the entrance.
All are welcome, no prior experience required. Sturdy shoes and gloves are recommended. Tools are provided.
Visit www.embarrasstewards.org for more information.
Breakfast in support of the Two Story Outhouse Festival
GAYS – An all-you-can-eat breakfast in support of the Two Story Outhouse Festival will take place on Saturday, June 18 at the Village Hall in Gays.
The menu includes biscuits with sauce, bacon, sausage, hash browns and drinks. Service will be from 8 am to 10:30 am or until they run out. Voluntary donations are accepted.
Crazy Casey Day will be held on Saturday
CASEY – The Casey Chamber of Commerce will host a Casey Madness Day on Saturday, June 18th.
Downtown will have a car show from noon to 3:00 pm, food trucks from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm, and citywide yard sales.
For more information, visit the Chamber’s Facebook page.
Truck with corn belt and tractor pulled on sunday
CHARLESTON – The 16th Annual Corn Belt Shrine Club Truck & Tractor Show takes place at the Coles County Fairgrounds in Charleston on Sunday, June 18th.
Three classes of trucks and four classes of tractors will take part in the competition. Registration starts at 16:30 and the draw starts at 18:00.
Admission for adults is $10, children under 6 are free.
With the support of the public over the years, the Corn Belt Sanctuary Club has donated over $1 million to Shriner Children’s Hospital. For more information, please call 217-259-1229.
Alpha Upsilon will arrange a picnic for the head
MATTOON – Alpha Upsilon will host a 6:00 pm chapter picnic on Tuesday, June 21st.
The location was moved from Peterson Park to their conference room at KofC Hall due to predicted high temperatures.
All participants are requested to bring a covered plate and/or drinks. Table setting and fried chicken will be provided by visiting officers.
Please respond by Monday, June 20 at 217-848-2774.
My City: Clint Walker’s Memories of Coles County, Retrieved from the Archives.
Space blue comics
This photo of Cosmic Blue Comics at Mattoon is from the Journal Gazette on November 22, 1992; where I spent almost every Saturday afternoon for about two years. That little back room you see to the right of the Coca-Cola sign was where they kept a lot, I mean a lot, long boxes of old issues. I still have my boxed copy of “Tales of the Beanworld” issue #1 that I found there. Unfortunately, this place is now just a “green zone”.
arcade
Pictured: Bob Murray of Shelbyville from the June 2, 1982 Journal Gazette showing off his dominance of the arcade game TRON at the “Carousel Time” arcade at Cross County Mall, which later became Aladdin’s castle and shortly thereafter ceased to be a thing . more. I spent almost every Saturday in this arcade, probably with the same haircut. But no overalls. I was more of an Ocean Pacific kid.
icenogla
Pictured: Journal Gazette November 28, 1988, Icenogle grocery store. Being from Cooks Mills, we didn’t often shop at Icenogle’s… but when we did, even as a kid, I knew that in an ideal world, a grocery store would be like this, and not just because they were wooden. floors, comics on a magazine shelf or a lot, I mean a lot of trading cards in wax packages.
Mills Cook
I had long since left Cooks Mills by the time this article about Adam’s grocery store was published in the Journal Gazette on June 13, 1998, but there was a time when I could very well be one of those kids in this photo; because if it was summer and you had a bike and lived in Cooks Mills, that’s where you ended up. According to the latest reports, they still had a Tab in the fridge with the Pepsi logo in the back. I’m seriously considering asking my financier if I can afford to reopen this place.
Mister Music
Pictured from the Journal Gazette, July 16, 1987, is an advertisement for Mister Music, formerly at the Cross County Mall. I didn’t buy records at that age, but eventually I did, and that’s when it all fell apart. If you don’t think it sounds “cool” hanging out at the record store with your buddies on a Friday night with a fresh driver’s license in your wallet, you’d be right. But it’s the best thing a geek like me can do. Wherever you are today, Mister Music owners, please know that the Minutemen album I found in your cheap trash can has changed my life.
Sound Source Guitar Throw
Portrait of the author as a young man about to throw a guitar at a target in the same year’s Sound Source Music guitar throwing competition, from the Journal Gazette, April 18, 1994. Take a look at my grunge hoodie and yes…look closely, those are the Air Jordans you see on my feet. Addendum: Despite what it says in the cut, I didn’t win the guitar.
Pictured is a clipping from the online archive at JG-TC.com, a photograph of April 18, 1994 Journal Gazette of Sound Source Music guitar-throwing winner and current JG-TC staff writer Clint Walker.
Vette
Here Today, Not Tomorrow, Vette’s Teen Club, from the Journal Gazette, June 20, 1991. I wasn’t “tough enough” to hang around Vette in his “heyday,” and by “tough enough” I mean “not experienced enough at parking lot fights.” If only I could get a crack at this now.
FutureGen
FutureGen: The End of the Beginning and Ultimately the Beginning of the End, December 19, 2007, JG-TC. I wish I paid more attention at that time. I should probably have read the newspaper.
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