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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 6 Jul 1977, p. 4

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:s m PAGE4-HJIINPEALKII" WEDNESDAY, JULY IH \ McCullom Lake Mary Jo Farrell > 344-1575 i l ' Jlf> McCullom Lake Maintenance Person Sought The McCullom Lake village board met Tuesday, June 28, where it was announced that the village is now actively looking for a full time main­ tenance person. Funds from the CETA (Comprehensive Employment Training Act) program are forthcoming, and any person who has been unemployed for a minimum of fifteen Weeks and considers himself eligible should contact Kurt Weisen- berger for more information. Some of the varied duties this person will be performing around the village include cleaning storm sewers, pat­ ching foads, mowing grass, and earing for the park and beach house -"v.. 1 CONSERVATION CLUB The dredge to be sponsored in '*» the near future by tlie Mc­ Cullom Lake Conservation club is in its active planning stages, i Help is needed to help with ha fund-raising for the dredge, , with the assembly of the dredge ftr itself, and with the actual operation. If you would like to donate some of your time and talent to help restore our lake to its original beauty, please call Gene Huff. The dredge is being planned for early fall, with the machine being ready for assembly in August sometime. The next meeting of the McCullom Lake Conservation dub will be held Thursday, July 21, at 8 p.m. at the Spojnia (sic) meeting hall. If you are interested in assisting with the dredge, or the club's other activities, please plan to attend the meeting. LADIES OF THE LAKE The Ladies of the Lake an­ nual picnic is going to be held Thursday, July 14, at Barb Belter's house. If you have not made plans to attend, please call Barb or Irene Johnson right now, and sign up. They must know how many ladies are coming so that they know how much food is needed. V i TICKETS Tickets issued by the Mc­ Cullom Lake Police during the month of May wore as follows: George E. Williams, speeding, 52 in a 40; Barbara M. Caley, speeding, 50 in a 40; Kathleen M. Ahern, speeding, 55 in a 40; Patsy L. Wadington, speeding, 56 in a 40; Sacramento A. Guzman, speeding 53 in a 40; Nelson Brand, parking at beach after 10p.m.; Kevin Lavin, four separate citations for dog running at large. BIRTHDAYS - ANNIVEBSABIES Happy birthdays go this week to Susie Orton and Marie Wyman July 7, to Danny Bit- terman and Gloria Milbratx July 9, to Tom Milbrats July 10, and to Virginia Karls July 12. My husband Tom and I will celebrate Ave years of wedded Miss July 8, and Chuck and Dawn Miller will be observing their big day July 12. Happy anniversary to us, ^ MESBkkii m H. , r*. •! " ' " ' * ! by Gerry Jalwson 'Mom'Raises 19 Kids, Then Takes lob !tmqc£nOMAI») College Honors { DEAN'S LIST Andrea K. Broman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Broman, 315 N. Draper road, McHenry, has been named to the dean's list for the second semester of the 1976-77 academic year at Carroll college, Wisconsin. DISTINGUISHED RANK James Jeffrey Cole of 402 Country Club drive and Pamela Lynn Perrewe of 4322 N. Wilmot road, both of McHenry, received distinguished-student rank for the spring semester of the 1976-77 school year at Purdue university, Indiana. Each maintained a grade index of at least 5.5 (B) out of a possible 6 (A) in no less than children moved in with the Brumfields. When her sister remarried, the children stayed behind in the Brum- field house. 'Mom' and her husband raised them, coring for them until they all got married and started families of their own. After a lifetime of raisins children, one would think that 'Mom* Brumfield would settle back and take it easy now that she and her hus­ band of 55 years are alone at last. Maybe some people would slow their pace, but last September Mrs. Brum­ field took a job. "I'm the sort of person who has to be doing some­ thing," Mrs. Brumfield said. "I love people, and I love to work. I'm not the type to sit around and do nothing." Mrs. Brumfield works as an assistant cook with the / concluded that old age was reached at 56. Aristotle taught that at age 35 the body was perfect and at age 50 the soul reached perfec­ tion. Dante wrote tnat old age began at 45. According to these defi­ nitions, many notable peo­ ple were well advanced in years when they made their greatest achievements: 4 V - ' ' • J- ' ; " • , } . George Washington was 57 when he became President; Milton was 59 when he wrote "Paradise Lost"; De­ foe was over 60 when he wrote "Robinson Crusoe"; Gandhi was 78 when he helped India win its free­ dom; and Benjamin Frank­ lin was in his 80's when he was helping to draft our Constitution. • • . I Village of McHenry Shores 385-5067 Jude La Francis :y • - • v - Invitation To Shore Readers And Browsers pro- Raising 19 children is a difficult teat under any cir­ cumstances, but for 76-year- fourteen hours. academic credit f hi j»v •! '-7 Of VG OPEN EVENINGS TIL 9 nt«IIBHKYl Home Horn* of. American Ofew MR CONDITIONED FURYOUR COMFORT! PIN! FURNITURE AT COMFOR BASSETT BEDDING SM QUEEN SIZE BOX • SPRING AND MATTRESS a*SM3i SMI PRICE *179** ' ' - • ' TWIN SIZE BOX / SPRING AND - . 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LANE CEDAR CHEST NOW SQQ9S MO UP ONLY J Buy One Get the Second HALF GUN CABINETS • «U MOO t UCMTEO OWUW •CUSSOOMaMMEl fcf.S3M.S9 . $2*9.95 FREE INTERIOR DECORATING CONSULTATION EARLY AMERICAN SLEEPER SOFA s26995 SOLID PINE DINETTE SET OwMt paM tonic* tap. 4T wart taMa. 2 u$Um dim. 2 «ut* chain, nritih 9S49*S amain ran SM> » 385-8200 4618 W.RT. 120 McHenry, III. Home of. American Drew ntcllBltRY Home Mshings < The Store Thot Cores To Save You Money" . WVw"., Hours: Men., Tuss., Thvrs., Fri. 9am to 9pm Wed. & Sat 9am to 6pm Sun. noon to 5pm Free Set-Up, Delivery, 90 Days Same As Cash old Sadie Brumfield of Huntington, West Virginia, the job was made even more difficult: she began her mothering duties at the age "of 13 when her mother died, leaving Mrs. Brum­ field with the responsibility of raising her two sisters and five brothers. "Looking back, I some­ times wonder how I did it," Mrs. Brumfield told a writer from The National Council on the Aging. "I don't really know why I was able to raise the kids; 1 just took over and did it." Long before her brothers and sisters were raised, 'Mom' Brumfield, as she's been called most of her life, married and started having a family of her own. While she was busy having six sons and three daughters of . her own, the brothers and sisters whom she had raised were getting married, some of them in the Brumfield living room. When the husband erf one of Mrs. Brumfield's sisters was killed in an auto acci­ dent, the sister and her five ; MMMfe Child and Family Develop­ ment Program. She and the head cook--one of her daughters--work 20 hours a week preparing breakfast and lunch for- preschool children in what was for­ merly the Headstart gram. Her daughter told her about the* job, and Mrs. Brumfield was hired through the Senior Com­ munity Service Project, a program for older workers administered by The Na­ tional Council on the Aging. "I'm so glad to be work­ ing with my daughter and all those', children," Mrs. Brumfield said. "You know, I really didn't know what to do without having a bunch pf children to take care of. Going to work is really no different than it was like at home for so many years. I love it." • • • NOT FOR "WOMEN ONLY, the nationally syn­ dicated show hosted by Lynn Redgrave and Frank Field, has prepared a week- long series called, WHO IS OLD?' The series will be showing at different times throughout the country dur­ ing May apd June. Check your local listings for time and station. - j • • • - ACCORDING TO author Simone de Beauvoir, old age has never been accu­ rately defined. Hippocrates Wednesday, July 6, is the official opening of the library. The library hours be from 10 a.m. to 12 noon Wednesdays and from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturdays, Come SUMI browse, read, and see your library in action. There is a family membership plan which enables each child in the family to have his-her own library card. The cost of this mem­ bership is minimal per family. Donations of books are still being accepted. Especially needed are children's books. See you at the library. BIRTHDAYS-PAST Belated happy birthday greetings are sent to Tony Fick who celebrated his birthday June 25. And Rudolph Barnett who had his special day June 29. Also July 3 was Michael Robert's birthday. BIRTHDAYS-FUTURE July 7 Joey Cejka will celebrate his fifth birthday and Bernice Bieritz also has a birthday July 7. Congratulations and best wishes to all of you and may you all have good luck in the future. NJEW POSITION Congratulations are in order for our president, Rose Ullegard, for her newly ap­ pointed position as the president of the McHenry County Municipal association. We wish her much success in her new role. SUMMER VACATION , The Brownies of Troop 415 have ended their program of '; • • T! *. r . - ' i': meetings for the year. Leader Mrs. Lorraine Bixler and co- leader Mrs. Debbie Wilkinson have done a great job with the girls. It is now time for a summer of fun for the girls of Troop 415 who have worked so hard and so well for the past year. We wish to express our best wishes for a safe and happy summer to the entire troop. Good luck, Dawn Bixler, Laura Bokemeier, Tammy Geske, Donna Heald, Julie Kurowski, Card Napier, Angela Orin, Kim Sanford, Lisa Wilkinson, Tracy Wood, Laura Siok, and Dale Matson. To read is to learn. To learn is to benefit To benefit is wise. BIBLE VERSE "Take ye from among you an offering unto the Lord; whosoever is of a witling heart, let him bring it, an offering of the Lord, " /' - . : ; . /£>'v ' 1. Who gave the above command? 2- To whom ^was he speaking? 3. What does the verse imply? 4. Where may it be found? Aaswers To Bible Verse 1. Moses. 2. To the Children of Israel. 3. That God delights in the offering from a willing heart. 4. Exodus 35:5. Many a life of the party is a washout at knm# •>sVjrf$hri BEN FRANKLIN'S JULY CLEARANCE SALE CLEARING SPRING-SUMMER MERCHANDISE •WOMEN - CHILDRENS - INFANTS READY TO WEAR ' •JEANS - SLACKS •ALL SWIMWEAR •MENS - BOYS SHIRTS - JACKETS SUPER SAVIN6S 1 LOT CHILDREN-WOMENS SHOES VALUES TO 10.0# PR. REG. 3" VALUE CANNON T0WLES LGE SIZE SLIGHT IRRE6. *37 ASST. COLORS-DESIGNS EA. DO IT V0URSELF PRICED PICTURE FRAME KITS TO SOLID OAK NAT. FINISH J" MANY SIZES CLEAR / REG. 66' BOX ̂ GREETING CARDS FOR / 14 CDS. TO BOX LONG SLEEVE SWEAT SHIRTS REDUCED DRASTICALLY YARD GOODS NOw GOOD SELECTION TO I4M CHOOSEFROM • REG. TOT "YD YD WARM UP suns UDIEUIMNA) $y00 REDUCED TO BUSTS? BROWN u CHILDRENS CLOTHES " GOOD SELECTION ULT . .. T >'. ' ;•> " • : > ̂ ̂ SEWING THREADS $F0R REG. 25'SPOOL ASST. COLORS 79* HANDBAGS f ENTIRE STOCK REDUCED > Yt PRICE s ' HANDBAGS f ENTIRE STOCK REDUCED > Yt PRICE s ' \ ' I L'

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