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SECTION 2 - PAGE 10 - PLAINDEALER WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1984 Mental Health Resource League holds meeting and elects officers Former president Suzanne Beam, seated front, passes the gavel to newly-elected president of ihe Mental Health Resource League, Beverly Thomas, of Crystal Lake, right front. Other new officers include, from left, back row, Voni Ferguson, treasurer, McHenry; Monica Pratt, recording secretary, Algonquin; Martha Peters, corresponding secretary; Sheila Aleckson, first vice-president; and Wynne Roy, second vice- president (seated), all of McHenry. Film series continues at Grant school The annual meeting of the Mental Health Resource League for McHenry County was held recently in Crystal Lake. New officers and directors elected reflect the broad base of the membership of this unique countywide organization. The president is Beverly Thomas, Crystal Lake, first vice-president, Sheila Aleckson, McHenry; second vice- president, Wynne Roy, McHenry; recording secretary, Monica Pratt, Algonquin; corresponding secretary, Martha Peters, McHenry; treasurer, Voni Ferguson, McHenry; proposal chairman, Sally Stallard, Woodstock, and Beth Mularz, scholarship chairman, Crystal Lake. Directors on the board of the league include, from Woodstock, Karen Wells; from Crystal Lake, Terrill Braun, Sue Furey, Diane Davis, Patricia Garrison, Carolyn Wotring, and Nancy Zugel, and from McHenry, Char Buch, Marlene Graham, Bar­ bara Hajek, Sharon O'Dwyer, and Barbara Winn. Suzanne Beam, outgoing president, conducted a brief business meeting prior to a delicious brunch. Mrs. Beam summarized the league's ac­ complishments this past year and announced the league awarded over $18,000 to 11 mental health agencies and one graduate scholarship to Ken Davy of Woodstock, who currently works at Pioneer Center. Hie purpose of the league is to provide financial support to mental health agencies in the county. The league is concerned with the problems and prevention of mental illness, alcoholism, mental retardation, drug, spouse, and child abuse, and developmental disabilities. Most of the the financial resources come from league fund raiser, including the league's annual Fair Diddley day in Woodstock each spring. This year the fair will be held on the Woodstock city square Sunday, May 20, from noon until 5 p.m. Fair Diddley is an old fashioned country fair with nearly 300 juried craft and fine arts exhibiters and continuous entertainment. Other activities the league sponsors include a benefit theater performance, an autumn fashion show with a luncheon and holiday Christmas ornament boutique, and an annual recipe booklet collection. Membership is open to any woman in McHenry County. For more information contact Mrs. William Braun, Crystal Lake, membership chairman or phone league public relations at 344- 2778. "Soft Is The Heart Of A Child" is a sensitive, dramatic and accurate story of alcoholism: the family illness. It will be featured in the free ongoing community education series at Grant Community High School Theater at 7 p.m. Friday, March 23. The film gives an overview of the interaction of each member of the family. Symptomatic of this illness is that all family members are Affected. "Soft Is The Heart 0f A Child" is for everyone to help them un­ derstand the complexity of the disease of alcoholism. Grant Community High School is located at 285 E. Grand Avenue, Fox Lake. Moscow discourages meeting of the twain Custom Sale! Horizon mini-blinds.* Choose 1" metal; 1" or 2" wood blinds. A pretty and practical way to give your windows a bright new look They're trim and tapeless for easy cleaning; simple to control for light and air flow. •Installation at regular price. Tom Broman, a 1972 graduate of McHenry High School, recently spent two weeks in Moscow and sent the following letter home to his parents, Cy and Char Broman, 315 Draper Road. "Dear Folks; "Well, we are back from Russia, and I must say it was quite an experience. Not that we saw much of Russia, only Moscow. But that was enough. "To give you an idea of the Soviet mentality, all groups from 'capitalist' countries stayed in rooms on the odd- numbered floors, and people from 'socialistic' countries staye on even-numbered floors. We had separate dining rooms, and even used separate elevators! One set of elevators stopped only on the even floors, and another set was for the odd floors. "Clearly the idea was to prevent too much contact bet­ ween the imperialist dogs and the socialists' shining hope for tomorrow, and especially between the West and 'East German students, who wold find such contacts easiest to make because of their common language. It worked: I didn't meet a single East German the entire time there. "One problem our group had is that there was a good deal of conflict between our German group leader, who had been to Russia several - times already and who spoke fluent Russian, and our Soviet tour guide. When you take group trips to Russia, you get assigned one of these people as a matter of course, not so much to spy on you, but rather to discourage you from trying to do too much on your own (though they can't actually prevent you from doing what you want), and to make sure that the visitors see the 'right' things. The problem came upon our first day there. "Tanya, our Russian, wanted us to all go see Lenin's tomb in Red Square just outside the Kremlin. Gabi, our German, didn't want to do that, since it entailed waiting in line for abmit 45 minutes, and she had already seen Lenin. No thought, you will notice, taken to what might be good for the other people in the group. So our group split up. Lynn and I and about 4 other people went to see Lenin, while the other 25 or so went with Gabi to see St. Basil's cathedral in Red Square. I think we made the better decision. St. Basil's looks great from the outside (all those painted onion domes, you Observe Wildlife Week Sale 16.73 sq. yd. installed*. Luxurious plush carpeting. Reg. 23.74 sq. yd. Dress up your floors with a beautiful expanse of U Itron® nylon plush. It's Scotchgard* treated for easy care. And it comes in lots of colors. #7630. Many other carpet styles are also on sale. Sale 19.73 to 27.73 Reg 24.74 to 40.74 sq. yd. installed. •Includes carpeting, measuring, cutting, seaming, laying of new carpet and #0035 padding. 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Water - We Can't Live Without It is the theme of this year's Wildlife Week, the forty-seventh sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation. The slogan seeks to promote the importance of clean, life-giving water and the necessity for conserving this critical resource. Noting that water is an essential natural resource,, "necessary for the survival of all living things on Planet Earth," Gov. Thompson pointed out that only three percent of all water on earth is fresh water. He also explained that "there are many competing demands for this valuable resource, in­ cluding agriculture, domestic and municipal needs, manufacturing, navigation, electric power generation, recreation, and fish and wildlife habitat." Because of this demand, "our nation is using 18 times more water than it did in 1900." The demand, coupled with con­ tamination of surface and un­ derground water by hazardous substances and other pollutants, is "despoiling many regional supplies," the governor said. Wildlife Week both the statewide and national ob­ servances, actually is only the start of a year long educational campaign to make citizens of the nation aware of the need, present condition and factors threatening the water. know), but is nothing on the inside. Lenin, meanwhile, was something else. "First of all, it was fun talking to Tanya during the wait. Two of the people in our group were theology students, and they tried to convince her that Lenin was an object of religious veneration to the Soviets, and the ritual visitation of his mausoleum was an example of that. Tanya, of course, didn't buy that, but it was fun arguing about it. Just how right those students were I will come back to later. Anyway, as you get close to the tomb, you're supposed to maintain silence (I got some nasty looks for laughing too loudly once). "Upon entering the mausoleum, you go down two flights of stairs into semi- darkness, past a number of stoney-faced guards who maintain absolute silence in the crowd and make sure the men take off their hats. Then you're in the room with Lenin himself, who islying ori a canopied dark red velvet (I think) bed, and looking an awful lot like something out of a wax museum. You file around the bed and then you're out. "One of the people in our group rather tactfully remarked that some people probably think that is a wax replica of Lenin, and Tanya scornfully said yes, Police tickets some people actually have said that, though they're wrong. In her mind, there was no doubt that thing lying on the bed was the reed potato. Not that I think it was wax, mind you. It really doesn't matter. It could as easily have been a well-pickled Lenin as wax. But the whole ex­ perience was at once impressive and ridiculous. "Even more ridiculous was a visit Lynn and I paid to the Lenin museum. As a museum, it was one of the best I have ever seen. The exhibits, arranged in t he chronological order of Lenin's life, were visually at­ tractive with just enough text to tell what it was all about without boring you. Not that we could read the text, of course, but it didn't look like too much. "Lynn and I bought a short museum guide in English which was pretty funny. It read like the life of a saint. Lenin was brilliant, everything he said had incredible insight, the force of his will alone made the Russian revoMften successful, that sort! of thing. "There's much more that I could say about the trip, but this should at least give you an idea. By the way, for all its un­ pleasantness, the ice cream in Russia was great, much better that the stuff you can usually get in Germany. Score one point for the commies. Love, Tom WELCOME WAGON HAS USEFUL GIFTS AND HELPFUL INFORMATION FOIt YOU... ALL FREE. JUST ENGAGEP? NEW PARENT? MOVED? My visit s a friendly way to get an­ swers to where-to-f ind questions about our town and available goods and services Local stores are anxious to help too and have gifts for you when you visit them 344-3966 • 385-7980 The City of McHenry Police Department has issued the following citations. Mary J. Logan, 4702 W. Shore Drive, disobeyed a traffic control device. P a t r i c k T . Gummerson, 4610 Garden Quarter, speeding, 46 mph in a 30 zone. James T. Otlewis, 1614 N. Park, no valid r registration. J a c k G . Slaughter, 7705 Cross, Wonder Lake, p passing in a no passing zone. D a v i d C . Diedrick, Jr., 3221 Chelmsford, Spring Grove, disobeyed a Announcing... THE OPENING OF m Pack n Ship Authorized Center Packing and shipping something? You drop off your item to be shipped and we do the rest. All for one modest charge. Sove time, travel and nerves. Visit your Pock n Ship center,today ED'S RENTAL * SALES McH*nry Stor* Only 904 Front St |Jf{^ 315 3232 Pack n Ship Mon. thru Sot. Only 7:30 • 4 pm V ** <I ̂ traffic control device. Thomas E. Ziebel, 4 8 1 4 W i l m o t , speeding, 49 mph in a 25 zone. John G. Gacek, 4714 W. Shore Drive, speeding, 42 mph in a 25 zone. Brian J. Conant, 4408 Poplarleaf, speeding, 43 mph in a 25 zone. Patricia Stoffel, 2413 St. Francis, no valid safety test. John M. Sande, 3017 Scott, disobeyed a stop sign. L u c i l l e M . Freund, 3706 Grand Ave., failure to yield the right-of-way. Joan M. Sorenson, 209 Windridge, failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident. K e n n e t h J . Schuerr, 4901 Bonner, improper lane usage. Terrence J. Boro, 902 Florence, im­ proper lane usage and driving under the influence. L i n d a M . VanEvery, 5307 Barnard Mill Road, Ringwood, speeding, 41 mph in a 25 zone. George Layoff, 5 0 1 2 P r a i r i e , speeding, 53 mph in a 35 zone. James L. Bur- m e i s t e r , 5 4 2 5 Sherman, speeding, 55 mph in a 35 zone. Christopher A. 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